Senior Project Manager - JHP

Jefferson Health Plans • Philadelphia, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager leads multiple highly complex, cross-functional projects that advance organizational priorities. This role facilitates alignment among enterprise-wide stakeholders to achieve shared goals, resolve conflicting interests, and deliver measurable outcomes. The Senior PM owns the full project lifecycle — from initiation through execution and post-implementation — while mentoring junior PMO staff and contributing to broader process improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience.
• 5 years of progressive project management experience, with demonstrated success leading large-scale, complex initiatives.
• Strong leadership, communication, and conflict resolution skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen, including budget tracking and resource forecasting.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project methodologies.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree
• Less than 1 year of experience in healthcare, payer systems, or highly regulated environments preferred.
• Proficiency with modern project management tools preferred (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, etc.).
• PMP - Project Management Professional - Project Management Institute

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for business and technical stakeholders across departments, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Build and maintain project schedules, resource plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead multiple, enterprise-wide projects with significant complexity, visibility, and impact.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with management, vendors, cross-functional team members, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor and manage project budgets, resource allocations, and vendor contracts; make necessary course corrections to meet financial targets.
• Prepare and contribute to business development and project management artifacts (e.g., RFPs, SOWs, project charters, timelines, evaluation frameworks).
• Work with Executive Sponsors and project leads to develop comprehensive project charters outlining scope, objectives, timelines, and success metrics.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical (internal and external) audiences to ensure shared understanding of scope, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide leadership to a diverse, matrixed project team which may include other Project Management staff as well as all levels of management.
• Facilitate effective project status meetings, steering committees, and executive briefings.
• Collaborate with business owners and IT to ensure systems and solutions deliver meaningful value and ROI.
• Represent the PMO in cross-departmental forums and serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on key initiatives.
• Lead process improvement and business process re-engineering efforts that uncover operational efficiencies and may initiate new project work (when needed).
• Demonstrate advanced expertise in time management, facilitation, organizational communication, and negotiation to achieve project goals.
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.

Benefits

• medical (including prescription)
• supplemental insurance
• dental
• vision
• life and AD&D insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts
• retirement plans
• tuition assistance
• voluntary benefits
• tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior