Senior Project Manager (Contract)

Job Description

Job Description

ABOUT SOUND

Headquartered in Tacoma, WA, Sound Physicians is a physician-founded and led, national, multi-specialty medical group made up of more than 1,000 business colleagues and 4,000 physicians, APPs, CRNAs, and nurses practicing in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states. Founded in 2001, and with specialties in emergency and hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine, Sound has a reputation for innovating and leading through an ever-changing healthcare landscape — with patients at the center of the universe. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

The mission for the Senior Project Manager is to ensure project management best practices are executed for the team’s portfolio of projects and new practice implementations, and that projects and implementations deliver their intended outcomes. This role also directly leads complex, high-stakes projects for Sound’s strategic imperatives, as well as leads multi-site or multi-service line new practice implementations. The Senior Project Manager develops others competency around project management by mentoring Project/Implementation Managers and providing strategic education on new and best practice processes as needed.

The Senior Project Manager has end-to-end level of responsibility for identifying business needs and articulating those from ambiguity to clarity. The role will collaborate with all business units across the enterprise and will focus on growing and maintaining professional relationships with stakeholders to ensure projects and programs in the portfolio are successfully managed and implemented.

The Senior Project Manager will report to Sound’s Vice President, Strategic Execution with accountability to the Chief of Staff.

Exceptional communication skills and a strong command of change management are essential, as this role requires guiding diverse teams through ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring smooth adoption of new processes and solutions.

The Details: This is a full-time, remote role for a 5-month contract, with the potential for extension or conversion to a permanent position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serving as the business expert for project management, and ensuring relevant standards, processes, and best practices are upheld
• Defining and structuring initiatives, managing direct reports and matrixed teams, and working closely with project Sponsors and Business Owners to ensure consistency in delivery of initiatives across the enterprise
• Identifying and understanding how different projects interlink and overlap and facilitating connections to align work, when needed
• Tracking strategic initiatives by monitoring progress towards goals and expected deliverables, analyzing data, ensuring follow-through on the part of Project Managers and key stakeholders, and sustaining momentum needed to drive key initiatives. Alerting the Vice President, Strategic Execution to progress or problems in carrying out the initiatives agreed upon
• Leading complex, higher stakes projects for Sound’s strategic imperatives to their completion in a way that facilitates the finished project being wholly owned by the identified Business Owner on an ongoing basis
• Leading all aspects of multi-site or multi service line new program implementations
• Identifying opportunities for continual improvement in portfolio management with a view towards helping the Vice President, Strategic Execution propagate best practices throughout the enterprise
• Reporting on portfolio performance to executive team and key stakeholders 

What we are looking for:  

A successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of a combination of these values, knowledge, and experience: 

VALUES

• Resourceful: Proactive willingness to utilize available information and tools to figure things out
• Adaptable: Demonstrates flexibility and a willingness to change as circumstances evolve
• Collaborative: Demonstrates the ability to work well with others to accomplish a goal and get the work done; takes opinions of others into consideration; includes others in the decision-making process
• Intellectually curious: Demonstrates a genuine interest in learning new things and wants to know the reason “why” behind the way things are done
• Passionate: Demonstrates a genuine enthusiasm for and excitement about the work; gets others excited about work or projects they're involved in and working on
• Strategic thinker: Demonstrates the ability to look at the big picture and proactively develop a plan of action
• Teamwork: Demonstrates the ability to pull people together into highly effective teams along with ability to work in a highly matrixed organization
• Communication: The ability to speak, write, and listen clearly and consistently
• Relationship Building and Maintenance: The ability to create and nourish healthy, strong relationships, as the face of Sound

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, healthcare administration or similar field and Project Management certification
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• Knowledge of Process Improvement methodology; LEAN-Six Sigma for healthcare training is desirable
• Knowledge of relevant state and federal healthcare regulations
• Working knowledge of healthcare payment models, physician practice management, clinical and operational teams, technology, and central services
• Business case development/analysis

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 5 - 10 years’ project/program management experience required with 15 years of experience preferred.

Pay Range: $80-$110 per hour. Exact pay will be determined based on candidate experience and geographic location.

Sound Physicians is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the bedside and in our workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This job description reflects the present requirements of the position.  As duties and responsibilities change and develop, the job description will be reviewed and subject to amendment.  #SoundBC