Senior IT Project Manager - Clinical Systems & Workflow; Local​/Hybrid

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Organization:
HealthIT Systems Intelligence Solutions

The Senior IT Project Manager will lead complex healthcare technology initiatives across the Systems Intelligence Solutions and Health Data Repository (HDR) teams (VUMCs Custom Developed Tool that houses our full electronic health record). This role is responsible for managing project timelines, resources, deliverables, risks, and cross‑functional coordination across multiple large projects and enhancements. This position requires more than traditional project management.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with clinical systems, Epic, and healthcare operational workflows and will actively engage in understanding how work is performed today. The Project Manager will partner with clinical, operational, technical, and analytical teams to evaluate workflows, identify gaps and dependencies, clarify requirements, and ensure solutions align with operational needs. The successful candidate will be comfortable asking detailed questions, mapping current and future‑state workflows, developing meaningful testing scenarios, and helping teams move from loosely defined problems to clear, actionable solutions.

Lead all phases of complex clinical and healthcare technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities. Develop and manage project plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and deliverables. Build a strong understanding of clinical and operational workflows to identify root problems and inform project decisions. Map current and future‑state workflows, identify gaps and dependencies, and translate findings into actionable requirements. Facilitate working sessions with clinical, operational, technical, and analytical stakeholders to define scope, refine requirements, and validate use cases.

Develop test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and validation workflows and coordinate end‑to‑end testing, UAT, and issue resolution. Partner across clinical, operational, application, data, and analytical teams to ensure the appropriate stakeholders are engaged throughout the project lifecycle. Provide clear, concise project documentation, status reporting, decision tracking, and stakeholder communication. Identify opportunities to improve workflows, project execution, and cross‑team collaboration. Proactively identify areas requiring additional investigation and drive issues through resolution.

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Experience working with Epic and Epic‑supported clinical workflows.

• Experience supporting healthcare clinical and/or operational workflows.

• Demonstrated ability to understand complex workflows, ask effective questions, identify gaps, and translate findings into clear requirements.

• Experience managing complex healthcare technology or clinical systems projects involving multiple teams and stakeholder groups.

• Experience developing or coordinating project plans, test plans, UAT, workflow validation, and implementation activities.

• Strong communication and facilitation skills with…