Visionary Imaging Project Manager

Job Summary:

The Senior Imaging Project Director is a strategic business leader responsible for overseeing the global execution of medical imaging projects with an emphasis on delivering exceptional customer experiences. This role drives the development and implementation of customer-centric solutions, service-oriented strategies, and operational best practices.

• Optimize project management processes to ensure high-quality, timely, and responsive service that aligns with client expectations and evolving needs.
• Oversee the imaging project management team to ensure regulatory compliance, forecasting resources and financials, and fostering team performance.
• Maintain proactive communication and build long-term trusted partnerships that support the organization's mission and vision.

Operational Planning and Oversight (40-50%):

• Lead proactive operational planning by identifying future needs, risks, and opportunities, and advocating for resources and solutions that enable the success of the functional area and its stakeholders.
• Translate strategic direction into clear actionable departmental plans with measurable goals, ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives.
• Drive workforce planning to ensure optimal project staffing, balancing capacity with demand to meet utilization and delivery targets.
• Serve as the strategic voice of imaging project management in cross-functional planning efforts, ensuring seamless collaboration, resource alignment, and shared accountability for outcomes.

Department Leadership and Organizational Alignment (30-40%):

• Lead with integrity, modeling behaviors that reflect the organization's values and fostering a culture of respect, inclusion, accountability, and collaboration.
• Champion a diverse and supportive work environment, promoting open communication, trust, and shared purpose across teams.
• Serve as a role model, mentor, and motivator to the imaging project management team, empowering managers and leaders through guidance in work allocation, resource planning, project oversight, training and development, employee engagement, team building, performance management, and succession planning.
• Represent the imaging project management function as a senior leader in client meetings, investigator sessions, and business development engagements, reinforcing a culture of excellence, partnership, and customer focus.

Project and Product Leadership (10-15%):

• Provide strategic oversight and direct involvement in imaging project development, collaborating with sponsors and functional directors to negotiate scope, allocate resources, and ensure delivery of high-quality, compliant solutions.
• Support the imaging project management team by identifying challenges, assisting in issue resolution, and ensuring all activities align with broader organizational goals and standards.
• Partner with the medical imaging leadership team to drive excellence in project execution and delivery. Evaluate processes to reduce organizational risk, ensure regulatory and industry compliance, and foster the company's reputation as a world-class provider of medical imaging services.
• Contribute to the research and design of new products, overseeing operational implementation and maintaining an emphasis on risk management throughout the product lifecycle.

Financial Strategy and Risk Management (10-15%):

• Partner with medical imaging leadership to lead strategic budget planning, advocacy, and performance reporting during annual and operational review cycles, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and financial targets.
• Oversee the development and application of tools and methodologies to track and manage project and departmental financial metrics, proactively identifying risk and ensuring regulatory and contractual compliance.
• Collaborate with business development to prepare accurate, competitive budgets and proposal content for RFPs, RFIs, and SOWs, ensuring profitability and alignment with scope.
• Manage change order development to ensure timely cost recovery and financial alignment with project execution, maximizing revenue realization and operational efficiency.

Qualifications:

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree + clinical research experience (7-9 years minimum)
• Demonstratable evidence of leadership at a division/department level, especially in full-service project leadership roles
• Change management experience/certification
• Strategic planning experience

Other:

• Experience in coaching and guiding senior team members to enable project oversight experience that exceeds expectations
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and demonstrated experience in creative solutions
• Client-centric mindset, as comfortable acting as a liaison externally as leading the team internally
• Imaging knowledge and experience a bonus