Laboratory Project Manager / Scrum Master (Oracle Health PathNet AP

TITLE: Senior Laboratory Systems Implementation Project Manager / Scrum Master (Oracle Health PathNet AP)

LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA – Hybrid

Type: Contract to hire (C2H)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 8+ years of progressively responsible healthcare IT project or program management experience, including leadership of complex, multi-vendor implementations.
• Demonstrated end-to-end leadership of at least one laboratory information system or LIMS implementation through go-live and stabilization.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Health PathNet AP and the anatomic pathology capabilities, workflows, integrations, and implementation considerations it supports.
• familiarity with laboratory operations and workflows, including experience partnering with laboratory leadership, faculty, pathologists, scientists, informaticists, and operational teams.
• Proven ability to map current-state workflows, facilitate future-state design, and create net-new processes, controls, roles, and governance for laboratories adopting a full LIMS.
• Experience translating ambiguous strategic direction into a practical plan and independently driving tactical execution, decisions, and follow-through.
• Strong command of project and program management disciplines, including integrated planning, financial management, risk and issue management, change control, quality management, vendor management, and executive governance.
• Hands-on experience applying Scrum, Kanban, or other Agile approaches within a structured enterprise or vendor implementation methodology.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-management skills, including the judgment and composure to work effectively with challenging stakeholders in a highly political environment.
• Ability to manage multiple interconnected workstreams, balance competing priorities, and maintain momentum in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment.
• Experience with healthcare privacy, security, regulatory, validation, and patient-safety considerations relevant to laboratory technology implementations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience implementing Oracle Health PathNet AP, Oracle Health Lab Sequence, Cerner CoPath replacement, or comparable anatomic pathology and molecular/genetics platforms.
• Experience implementing or integrating Sectra Digital Pathology or another enterprise digital pathology imaging platform.
• Experience supporting academic medical centers, research laboratories, molecular/genetics laboratories, or other highly complex laboratory environments.
• Experience integrating laboratory systems with AI-assisted reporting, clinical decision support, data science, or advanced analytics tools.
• Knowledge of laboratory instruments, interface engines, HL7, FHIR, DICOM, APIs, and related healthcare interoperability patterns.
• Experience with Jira, , Microsoft Project, or comparable planning and Agile delivery tools.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), SAFe, or comparable project and Agile certification.
• Healthcare consulting or large-scale digital transformation experience.