Senior Project Manager, Research Core

Geisinger

Senior Project Manager leading data core projects for health care analytics and managing stakeholder communications and project scope. Ensuring timely project delivery with operational efficiency.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Supports Data Core staff and leadership with project management across a wide variety of technical areas including data infrastructure, software engineering, data science, and health care data analytics for research and related activities.
Works collaboratively with project stakeholders both internal and external and functional managers to develop project goals and objectives, set project timeline, manage change, and control scope.
Leads project team in collaboration with IT functional leadership to achieve project goals and objectives on time and within budget.
Reports and appropriately escalates project progress, concerns, and issues to project stakeholders and leadership.
Assembles project team, establishes authority as project manager, gains consensus, and develops and effectively communicates a clear understanding of project scope, objectives, mandates, timeframe, budget and other project requirements.
Ensures project requirements, constraints, and assumptions are defined, documented, and effectively communicated in order to establish project deliverables using requirements gathering techniques.
Works with project sponsors and stakeholders to develop project charters including milestones, deliverables and timelines.
Ensures realistic labor and cost estimates are applied to project activities and tasks in support of project plan and schedule development.
Collects status information regularly from the project team and maintains visibility to overall project status for stakeholders and leadership.
Establishes and executes on a communications plan meeting the needs of the project, including status meetings, status reports, change management, and issue escalation.
Creates agendas, ensures the capture of minutes, and conducts meetings in an effective and efficient manner.
Manages changes to project scope, schedule and costs using appropriate verification techniques so as to keep the project plan accurate and reflective of authorized project changes.
Maintains, documents, and communicates scope and schedule variances to plan to leadership as appropriate and per the communications plan.
Manages project risks through facilitating proactive risk identification and management and ensuring appropriate contingency plans are developed and implemented to minimize the probability of and impact to the project.
Organizes and tracks project team tasks to assure proper application of project management standards, best practices, tools, and methodologies in project work.
Leverages approved supporting tools to facilitate document management, sharing, and collaboration.
Engages and effectively communicates in a timely fashion with stakeholders, including project sponsors, project team members, IT functional management, and leadership on all project tasks and deliverables, including requirements, scope, plans, staffing, budget, risks, issues, schedules, and status.
Ensures regulatory compliance of projects through collaboration and coordination with internal regulatory offices.
Ensures timely and accurate collection of labor hours related to the project.
Participates in and provides guidance related to vendor management associated to assigned projects including but is not limited to, contract negotiations, invoicing issues lists and new product evaluations.
Contributes to employee goals and performance appraisals as related to assigned projects.
Manages and supports the functional manager in managing project budget and financing, including but not limited to planned and actual hours, planned and actual dollars, and variances.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree-Technology Related Degree (Required)
Minimum of 6 years-Managing people, processes, or projects (Required)
Skills: Communication, Computer Literacy, Multitasking, Organizing, Research Regulatory Environment, Teamwork.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.
Collaboration, cooperation and collegiality atmosphere.

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementdata infrastructuresoftware engineeringdata sciencehealth care data analyticsrequirements gatheringrisk managementbudget managementvendor managementregulatory compliance

Soft Skills

communicationmultitaskingorganizingteamworkleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingchange managementstakeholder engagementtime management