Project Manager

The Project Manager will plan, direct, and coordinate project activities to ensure project and team objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.

Coordinates cross-functional projects and assumes a leadership role in shaping priorities, setting and tracking schedules, driving issue resolution, and ensuring quality.

Requires strong project management skills, a strong technical knowledge in software implementation, and proven experience managing key customer relationships and project details.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures the timely and accurate delivery of contract deliverables and key project artifacts across multiple projects.
• Serves as the primary point of contact with key customers for implementation of GHX core products, leading coordination calls and aligning GHX activities with customer activities.
• Leads and facilitates project “kickoff“ sessions to review assumptions and expectations, gather requirements, educate internal stakeholders on products and services, etc.
• Builds detailed project plans and schedules, identifying deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Directs and coordinates project personnel to keep the project on schedule, providing early visibility to milestones at risk. Works through ambiguous situations to reach tactical resolutions and go-forward action plans.
• Maintains a project risk and issue log. Facilitates risk mitigation and issue resolution across functional managers and sponsors to minimize impact to project schedule and internal stakeholder satisfaction. Aligns to strategic needs of the client, as well as best practice experiences.
• Conducts regularly scheduled meetings with stakeholders that continue to progress the project per charter / guidelines formulated at project initiation.
• Understands the business fundamentals, provides routine updates to senior leadership (both client and GHX) on assigned projects, in the form of routine project check in meetings, and/or formal project readouts. Areas needing escalation are provided and resolved through mutual senior management teams.
• Holds team members accountable to commitments. Directs and coordinates activities for project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule. Manages and updates project plans and schedules for assigned projects.
• Assists team members in completing customer defined deliverables and in producing key project artifacts to document the implementation.
• Maintains product knowledge to increase efficiency in delivery of products.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience in project leadership roles.
• Experience with software development, implementation or integration projects either in a leadership role or as a major team contributor.  Must have a basic understanding of the software implementation life cycle.
• Knowledge of project management methods and processes, including SDLC and Agile/Scrum frameworks. Demonstrated success in delivering project scope on time and within budget.
• Experience managing customer relationships and projects.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and written and verbal skills, with solid analytical and qualitative reasoning ability — including diagnosing project performance problems and recommending effective corrective actions.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Self-motivated and passionate about learning new technology.
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of solutions. 
• Ability to travel up to 25% annually.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Certification or equivalent preferred.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, preferably in the technology or healthcare arena.
• Healthcare technology implementation experience a plus. 

Estimated salary range: $81,000 - $108,000

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX’s salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of GHX’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/

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Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.

GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.

It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.

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