Project Manager - Healthcare, null

My client within the healthcare sector is looking for an experienced Project Manager on an initial 6-month contract to undertake a hands-on delivery role within their strategic & technical project portfolio streams.

As Project Manager, you will liaise with clients and provide guidance and support on overall operations, future-proof strategy, and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategies and direct teams ensuring that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale, and resource budgets, and are signed off. Proactively aim to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• Take full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation, and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects with diverse scope. Facilitate scoping and business priority setting for complex changes, engaging senior stakeholders as required.
• Scope of responsibility includes any and all phases of the project life cycle as well as project team management and possible budget administration.
• Track resources and assure deliverables are met, negotiate effectively for key resources, and screen and select team members.
• Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, seeking to fully address client needs, identifying, evaluating, and recommending options, plus the establishment of a baseline on which delivery of a solution can commence.
• Demonstrate use of structured iterative methodologies, manage scope changes and communicate the impacts, and secure approval when needed.
• Ensure that realistic project plans are maintained, ensuring regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use.
• Develop project plans using standard project management tools, e.g., MS Project or Project Workbench.
• Use metrics and project plans to assess the success of the project and make necessary changes.
• Examine relationships between problems and issues. Probe and initiate research to identify critical problems. Review and cross-review reports.
• Conduct knowledge transfer and project post-mortem for lessons learned and improving best practices.
• Identify, quantify, and manage issues impacting delivery of projects. Establish clear goals and priorities needed to assess performance.
• Meet on-time and on-budget project goals and participate in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Prince 2 Certified
• Additional course or certification in Business Consulting
• Certified functional consultant in any one specific domain

Skills

• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Teamwork and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management - continuous performance is both a goal and a mindset
• Has an innovative approach - a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency

Experience

• Project Manager with 5+ years' experience within the Healthcare sector
• Strong project governance processes
• Capable of vendor management and C-Suite stakeholder management
• Experience and knowledge in project management methodologies and awareness of new emerging technologies and developments
• Good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain comprehension. Practical experience and proficiency with project management tools/frameworks required
• Strong understanding of the project management life-cycle and experience with all stages of the product development life-cycle (concept to launch)
• Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational and interpersonal problems
• Experience in providing technical guidance to empower others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues
• Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Knowledge of client/server architecture, object-oriented design/development, and package implementation
• Extensive experience using project management tools, tracking plans and actual statistics from inception through to implementation