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JOB SUMMARY
The Project Manager I will be responsible for the end-to-end management of projects, focusing on delivering agreed scope within defined timelines and budget. This role ensures project success, meets acceptance criteria, and enhances customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities
• Identify key stakeholders and maintain positive business relationships.
• Maintain regular communication with customers, understanding and addressing their needs.
• Define project activities, responsibilities, critical milestones, resources, skills, interfaces, and budget.
• Optimize costs and time utilization, minimize waste, and deliver projects on time, within budget, and with high quality.
• Anticipate and manage project risks using appropriate strategies and develop contingency plans.
• Implement defined governance models for projects.
• Track and report project KPIs and analyze project health.
• Implement software delivery methodologies to improve project KPIs.
• Adopt and build software engineering best practices.
• Conduct requirements analysis, elicitation, scope control, and prioritization.
• Drive the creation of common standards and artifacts (e.g., design documents, traceability matrices).
• Partner with customers to define and elicit requirements.
• Conduct impact analysis of scope changes and negotiate prioritization.
• Consolidate and validate estimates at a solution level, including risks and assumptions.
• Conduct resource planning and analyze the impact of changes on estimates and resource loading.
• Identify necessary roles and skills for project execution.
• Plan, manage, and track multiple small projects or modules.
• Identify and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Manage schedule delays and dependencies.
• Identify options to fast-track schedules.
• Proactively identify and track dependencies impacting project KPIs.
• Identify, document, communicate, and track project risks and issues.
• Define RACI charts and communication plans.
• Support system integration testing (functional/technical).
• Review and mentor teams during test execution.
• Support the definition of test strategies and scenarios.
• Understand the business impact of defects, prioritize them, and participate in defect triage meetings.
• Identify and analyze root causes of defects.
• Define and adopt appropriate tooling strategies for projects.
• Guide teams in developing efficient and high-quality work products.
• Ensure process compliance and mentor team members.
• Tailor quality guidelines to meet specific project requirements.
• Understand how proposed solutions meet client requirements.
• Map business requirements to technology requirements and manage customer expectations.
• Collaborate with account managers and enabling functions to deliver value.
• Present proposed solutions to customers, highlighting benefits.
• Carve out simple solutions or Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Review project artifacts and assess project health.
• Share best practices and learnings.
• Adopt learnings and reusable methodologies/tools from other projects.
• Implement a framework for assessing team skill levels and develop skill enhancement plans.
• Nurture innovation within the team.
• Provide feedback and enable team independence and growth.

Experience
• Experience in structured project management methodologies (e.g., agile techniques).
• Experience with estimation techniques.
• Experience with metrics analysis and quantitative management.
• Experience with root cause analysis.
• Experience in people management, including goal setting, growth aspects, and coaching.

Skills
• Impact and Influence
• Project risk identification and management.
• Project plan definition and breakdown into tasks.
• Communication of project progress (schedule, quality, risks, changes).
• Task delegation and team member contribution management.
• Project health assessment using quantitative measures and adaptive course correction.
• Understanding of technologies to be implemented within the project.
• Understanding of customer's technology landscape.
• Ability to map business requirements to technology requirements.

Certifications
• (No specific certifications mentioned in the provided description)

EMR / Systems
• (No specific EMR/Systems mentioned in the provided description)

Patient Population
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Unit / Specialty
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