Senior Project Manager - Heart and Vascular Service Line

Job Description
Description
Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.
The Heart & Vascular Service Line for UNC Health is seeking a senior level project manager to partner with our team. The successful candidate will thrive in a complex environment, translate big ideas into executable plans, and ensure that clinicians and leaders deliver results. We are looking for a person that is both a technical expert and a strategic thought partner.

Summary

The UNC Health Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading enterprise-wide projects and strategic initiatives of significant scope, complexity, and organizational impact. This role develops and executes project strategies and transformational initiatives across UNC Health. The Senior Project Manager partners with executive leaders, operational stakeholders, physicians, clinicians, and administrative teams to plan, coordinate, and implement projects that advance organizational goals while minimizing disruption to patient care and business operations.

This role oversees all phases of the project lifecycle, including project planning, governance, resource coordination, risk mitigation, stakeholder engagement, implementation, and transition to operational ownership. The Senior Project Manager serves as a trusted advisor to leadership, driving collaboration across entities and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with UNC Health's strategic priorities.

The successful candidate demonstrates the ability to anticipate risks, resolve ambiguity, navigate conflict, negotiate solutions, and advance organizational objectives with limited oversight. Applies PMP-level leadership and judgment to align projects with organizational priorities while proactively resolving challenges and driving successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

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Enterprise Project Leadership: Lead large-scale, highly complex projects and strategic initiatives across UNC Health. Develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, deliverables, resource requirements, communication plans, and success metrics to ensure effective execution. Monitor project progress and implement corrective actions as needed to achieve established goals and objectives.
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Project Governance and Risk Management: Identify project risks, dependencies, barriers, and opportunities, and developing mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes. Establish and maintain project governance structures, monitoring project scope, timeline, budget, and deliverables. Develop and maintain project documentation, status reports, executive summaries, and presentations for leadership review. Ensure compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and internal controls throughout project execution.
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Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Collaborate with executive leadership, operational leaders, physicians, clinicians, and cross-functional teams to align project goals and drive successful outcomes. Facilitate meetings, workgroups, and steering committees to build consensus, resolve issues, and advance project objectives. Communicate project strategies, milestones, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
4.

Process Improvement and Integration: Analyze complex operational, organizational, and project-related issues and develop solutions that improve efficiency, effectiveness, and organizational performance.
Support the implementation of sustainable processes and best practices that enhance enterprise effectiveness while minimizing disruption to patient care and business operations.
5.

Project Financial Management: Partner with leadership to develop, monitor, and manage project-related operating and capital budgets.
Track project expenditures and resource utilization, providing financial forecasts and recommendations to support decision-making.
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Change Management and Implementation: Lead organizational change efforts associated with project implementation, ensuring stakeholder readiness and adoption. Coordinate project activities through implementation and transition to operational ownership, ensuring successful handoff and sustainability of project outcomes.
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Project Management Standards and Mentorship: Promote project management best practices, tools, methodologies, and governance standards across the organization. Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to project managers, project teams, and stakeholders related to project planning, execution, and performance improvement.
Other Information
Other information:
Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in an appropriate discipline.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

Project Management Profession or equivalent credentials such as a PRINCE2 Practitioner, PgMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).

Professional Experience Requirements

Seven (7) years of experience in project management or program management.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

Strong knowledge of project management techniques and tools.

Job Details
Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
Entity: Shared Services
Organization Unit: HCS H&V Service Line
Work Type: Full Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Hybrid
Work Schedule: Day Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes
This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation. UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.