Senior Technology Project Manager

ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side‑by‑side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life‑changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide.

ZSers drive impact by bringing a client‑first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life‑changing impact to ZS.

ZS's Program Management practice provides planning, delivery, and governance expertise to a wide range of clients. Our global organization is comprised of team‑oriented, pragmatic, and results‑driven people who thrive on solving challenging problems and driving the implementation of critical solutions. Our people come from diverse backgrounds, but share a passion for ensuring successful delivery of planned outcomes for our clients.

As client‑facing PMs in a management consulting environment, our Sr. Project Managers pride themselves on serving as the trusted partner to client technology and business leaders, spanning the boundaries between business and technology, as well as ideation and delivery. We focus on delivering today’s projects, and identifying tomorrow’s opportunity to help our clients elevate their program delivery.

The Senior Technology Project Manager will be part of a client‑facing team engaged in strategic initiatives. It is an integral part of the firm's strategy to build scalability and efficiently deliver program management capabilities. This role will partner with senior leadership and delivery teams to lead program planning and execution across various functions, driving programs to achieve mission‑critical outcomes for our clients.

The Sr. Consultant will integrate multiple stakeholders, complicated data dependencies, and intersecting work streams across large‑scale transformation projects. Critical factors to success in this role include program planning and execution, milestone tracking, financial management, SLA compliance, and benefits management.

• Partner with team and clients to drive program inception, defining tangible outcomes, scope, and prioritization; distilling work streams and deliverables, and key metrics milestones, and success metrics.
• Translate business needs into actionable efforts and delivery roadmaps.
• Ensure end‑to‑end and cross‑workstream understanding of the program objectives.
• Establish governance, roles and responsibilities, communications and reporting approach and cadence, and ways of working with client and ZS teams and leaders.
• Provide leadership to select, tailor, setup, and drive buy‑in for a robust PMO framework for effective delivery and execution.
• Ensure that the delivery approach is realistic and optimized, and aligned with deal economics.

• Lead end‑to‑end planning and execution for large programs, with multiple projects or work streams, including technology transformation, system implementation, digital enablement, and data/analytics initiatives.
• Program execution by leading program delivery for key strategic initiatives, drive the program efforts to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum.
• Identify areas of complexity within the program, and proactively engage with stakeholders to define success criteria and direction to address challenges, pivoting as needed to achieve successful outcomes.
• Participate and lead unstructured problem solving with the team and client on issues which arise during the course of a large program.

• Lead program delivery for key work streams across strategic initiatives, drive the program activities to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum.
• Partner with senior program leaders and client…