Sr. Director, Project Management

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Summary:

In this role, the Senior Director, Project Management will lead a team of project managers responsible for delivering complex consulting and enterprise-wide client engagements. This leader establishes the project-management strategy, governance, methodologies, and performance standards needed to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in alignment with contractual commitments and client expectations.

Responsibilities:

Project Management Leadership and Governance

• Establish and execute the project-management strategy, operating model, governance structure, and performance standards for assigned consulting engagements.

• Lead oversight of complex, cross-functional projects and programs from initiation through implementation, measurement, and closeout.

• Maintain and continuously improve project-management methodologies, tools, templates, reporting practices, and documentation standards.

• Champion consistent use of project-management best practices across consulting and client-delivery teams.

• Ensure projects maintain appropriate executive visibility, governance, accountability, and decision-making structures.

• Influence project-management policies and lead process improvements that strengthen delivery quality, efficiency, and scalability.

Client and Stakeholder Leadership

• Partner with client executives to establish project strategy, priorities, expectations, governance, and measures of success.

• Build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders and serve as a senior point of contact for project delivery matters.

• Communicate project status, accomplishments, risks, dependencies, financial performance, and required decisions clearly and proactively.

• Facilitate alignment among client leaders, engagement teams, subject-matter experts, and other stakeholders.

• Anticipate stakeholder concerns and resolve complex issues or escalations that could affect project outcomes or client satisfaction.

Financial and Operational Oversight

• Monitor project budgets, contracted hours, savings commitments, timelines, resource requirements, and travel expenses.

• Partner with account and engagement leadership to oversee project financials, milestones, risks, dependencies, and benefits realization.

• Establish quantitative and qualitative measures of project performance, including value delivered, outcomes, delivery velocity, client satisfaction, and team effectiveness.

• Identify financial and operational improvement opportunities and ensure appropriate tracking, validation, reporting, and auditing of results.

• Assess project portfolios to identify emerging risks, resource constraints, competing priorities, and opportunities to improve performance.

Team and Resource Leadership

• Recruit, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of project-management professionals.

• Provide day-to-day direction, performance feedback, mentoring, professional development, and escalation support to direct and indirect team members.

• Establish clear expectations and delegate responsibilities based on project needs, individual capabilities, and development opportunities.

• Manage internal and external resources to ensure projects have the appropriate staffing levels, capabilities, and subject-matter expertise.

• Build succession plans and strengthen the project-management leadership pipeline.

• Create an inclusive, collaborative environment that encourages accountability, innovation, open communication, and recognition of individual and team contributions.

Organizational Effectiveness and Continuous Improvement

• Promote organizational learning by applying lessons learned, project retrospectives, performance data, and client feedback to future engagements.

• Lead change-management activities that improve adoption of project-management processes, tools, and software.

• Provide thought leadership and technical expertise related to project delivery, program management, governance, and performance improvement.

• Develop executive-level presentations, project plans, financial reports, dashboards, and internal reporting for client and organizational leadership.

• Collaborate across Vizient to strengthen project delivery capabilities and drive consistent, repeatable client outcomes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, project management, or a related field preferred.

• 7 or more years of progressive project or program management experience, including responsibility for complex, cross-functional initiatives.

• 5 or more years of people-leadership experience, including responsibility for developing project managers and managing team performance.

• Demonstrated experience establishing project governance, managing budgets and resources, mitigating risk, and delivering projects against contractual commitments.

• Strong executive communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable project plans, performance measures, and measurable outcomes.

• Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma, or comparable certification desired.

• Experience leading projects within hospitals, health systems, healthcare performance improvement, supply chain, or another related technical field preferred.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Project or comparable project and portfolio management platforms, resource-planning systems, and executive reporting tools.

• Ability and willingness to travel based on client and business needs.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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