Senior Strategic Project Manager

Nemours is looking to hire a Senior Strategic Project Manager. The Senior Strategic Project Manager is responsible for oversight, management, and delivery of multiple, highly complex site, regional, and systemwide projects and/or programs, aligning to strategic roadmaps, expansion and growth of physical operations, and operational efficiencies, across the system through all phases of the project management lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to advance projects and strategic initiatives, achieving defined milestones and objectives, on time and within budget using a range of project management and continuous improvement methodology, tools, and techniques.
• Effectively managing project resources and tasks, proactively identifying issues, risks, barriers, and challenges, coaching the project team to develop countermeasures to mitigate risks, clearly communicating and escalating barriers, and driving timelines.
• Serving as coach and mentor to Project Managers within the office to support advancement of their technical skillset, operational and organizational knowledge, and projects and overall professional development.
• broad exposure across business and clinical operations, corporate services, and all levels of associates and leaders, requiring excellent communication and extraordinary levels of customer service.

Essential Functions:

Facilitation - facilitates and guides cross-functional teams to make decisions, overcome barriers, accomplish tasks, and achieve common goals, preparing thoughtfully in advance and adapting as necessary to manage communication, creativity, conflict, and participation.

Time Management & Organization - effectively manages all project phases with accountability for multiple deliverables.

Leadership - takes initiative, and is self-directed, while thriving in a setting requiring collaboration and teamwork for maximal efficiency and effectiveness.

Problem Solving - uses established escalation mechanisms to identify, document, and seek resolution on major problems and risks, along with a willingness to go above and beyond to resolve problems by encouraging ongoing identification of barriers and facilitating problem solving using continuous improvement principles

Teaching/Coaching/Mentoring - coaches at all levels of the organization on the habits, disciplines, and tools to support a successful strategy, project management and continuous improvement culture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required. Extensive experience in project management required.
• Experience in strategy deployment, continuous improvement, and healthcare preferred.
• More than 5 years of direct experience in project / program management and project team facilitation.
• Experience in applying project management principles from methodologies such as Agile.
• Experience with coaching and mentoring individuals to lead projects / programs independently.
• Strong knowledge of continuous improvement problem solving methodologies and lean leadership preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) required.
• Agile Project Manager, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent certifications preferred
• Exceptional individual who is intellectually curious, enthusiastic, a problem solver, detail oriented, and a self-starter.
• Strong background in project and program management and extensive experience managing highly, complex workstreams with some experience with data analytics.