Project Manager

About This Role

This project manager role involves leading the analysis of vendor proposals, formulating project plans, coordinating vendors, and building and conducting tests. It suits a professional with expertise in project management methodologies, tools, and techniques, capable of managing moderate-sized projects independently.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis of vendor proposals
• Formulate the project plan
• Coordinate vendors
• Build and conduct tests
• Track project progress
• Apply expertise in project management methodologies, tools, and techniques to manage moderate-sized projects
• Work independently within technical areas, applying in-depth knowledge of multiple technologies as appropriate
• Understand architectural issues and factor them into decisions and recommendations
• Understand customer requirements and their impact on the technical direction of a solution
• Maintain knowledge and awareness of the unit's products, services, and basic business processes, determining the role technology can play to support success
• Manage project budgets, tracking expenses and ensuring cost effective use of resources
• Anticipate how technology enhancements will affect other business areas and assess tradeoffs between business needs, technology requirements, and costs
• Use tools to document progress and project plan
• Help customers define requirements, clarify current and future technology needs, and determine how to best meet their needs
• Work directly with senior users in defining new application requirements, resolving project issues, and developing business strategies
• Analyze cross-technology and cross-platform issues, evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of proposed solutions
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Knowledge in interrelationship of various divisions and administrations, organization as mission, its relationship to other institutions if any
• Ability to analyze statistical data and present ideas and recommendations both orally and in writing
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management staff, private organizations and special interest groups
• High degree of judgment and originality to interpret the laws and regulations and to assist in the development of department and office policies, standard concepts, and administrative procedures
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, and Word
• Must be able to read, write and speak conversational English
• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of experience in healthcare, project management or related expertise