Sr. Project Manager - Laboratory Information System (LIS) - #451518

Our healthcare client is undertaking a strategic initiative to replace its current Laboratory Information System (LIS) with a modern, integrated solution to enhance laboratory workflows, ensure interoperability across sites, and support timely and accurate diagnostics. This major transformation will impact multiple departments, systems, and facilities. The Senior Project Manager (REMOTE contract) will lead the end-to-end planning and execution of the LIS replacement project in collaboration with clinical, technical, and vendor stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall project lifecycle for the LIS replacement, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, risk registers, and resource allocations
• Coordinate and engage with clinical lab teams, IT specialists, system vendors, and executive stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals
• Oversee procurement processes, vendor selection, and contract compliance
• Facilitate system design, data migration, integration, testing, validation, and implementation activities
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely resolution and escalation as needed
• Ensure change management, training, and user adoption strategies are developed and executed effectively
• Monitor and report on project progress, budget variances, and milestone achievements to senior leadership
• Manage multiple workstreams in parallel, including interfacing with existing enterprise systems such as EHRs, middleware, and reporting platforms
• Ensure compliance with privacy, security, accreditation, and regulatory requirements throughout the project lifecycle
  
  

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in project and program management, including leadership of large-scale health information system implementations
• 3+ years of experience managing LIS projects or other clinical/laboratory technology initiatives
• Proven track record managing capital or enterprise-scale healthcare IT projects involving multiple stakeholders and vendors
• Strong knowledge of laboratory workflows, diagnostic processes, and clinical integration requirements
• Experience leading system replacement or modernization projects, including legacy system decommissioning and data migration
• PMP preferred
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex, fast-paced healthcare environment
  
  

This role requires individuals who have had industry experience in BA lead roles. Further clarification on the skills and abilities required are:

Organizational

• Demonstrated ability to independently organize and prioritize a high-volume workload to meet deadlines in an environment of change.

• Demonstrated ability to anticipate, organize and prioritize work to meet both short- and long-term goals and outcomes.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality work.

Supervisory / Leadership

• Ability to identify tasks, negotiate and accept responsibilities and coordinate and provide direction to key stakeholders.

Communication

• Demonstrated ability to listen, clarify and comprehend information.

• Demonstrated ability to appropriately prepare and present complex information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and in writing to a variety of audiences.

Interpersonal

• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with individuals, teams, and diverse groups at various levels of the organization in an objective and respectful manner, consistently displaying professionalism, discretion, and patience.

• Demonstrated ability to maintain personal and team effectiveness by adapting and adjusting to changes and difficult situations.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and document business problems and design an approach to solve them using established business process improvement methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to present and facilitate.

• Working knowledge of project management principles and techniques.

Decision Making / Problem Solving

• Demonstrated ability to critically think through problems to formulate practical solutions.

Customer Service

• Demonstrated ability to be customer focused and service oriented

Technical knowledge/Skills

• General knowledge of how to gather and translate business and non-functional requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Demonstrated ability to use MS Office products.

• Must be strong at using the entire MS Office Suite and Visio

Change Management

• The ability to effectively manage change across different stakeholder groups

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Job Number: 12313