Project Manager III

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

The Project Manager III is an essential function and is responsible for leading and coordinating mid-to-large scale initiatives across the organization's various operational divisions. This role serves as the connective tissue between IT, business, and clinical stakeholders, compliance, and vendor partners, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in full alignment with regulatory requirements including SOX, HIPAA, and applicable healthcare standards.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience managing technology projects in a regulated healthcare environment, possesses strong communication skills to engage both technical and non-technical audiences, and is adept at navigating the complexities of healthcare data governance, clinical workflow integration, and enterprise system implementations.

 Project Planning & Execution

• Define project scope, objectives, milestones, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders and technical leads.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, RAID logs, and resource allocation plans.
• Lead cross-functional project teams through the full project lifecycle using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as appropriate.
• Monitor project performance against baseline metrics and proactively address deviations.
• Provide direction and leadership to all resources in the performance of project assignments and activities.
• Identify and coordinate solutions to complex problems considering resources, human and system capacity, and limitations.
• In cooperation with Business Analysts and technical SMEs, guide development of detailed requirements, based on a thorough understanding of the business goals, objectives, and user needs.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for business leads, technical leads, and third-party technology vendors.
• Facilitate regular project status meetings, steering committee updates, and executive briefings.
• Manage vendor deliverables, SLAs, and contract milestones in accordance with executed contract terms.
• Effectively communicate and work with business users, analysts, project leaders, developers, and all levels of management across the enterprise in a fast-paced environment.

Risk, Compliance & Quality

• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, with particular attention to data privacy (HIPAA), clinical safety, and change management.
• Work with the project team to develop and document mitigation plans to minimize the impact of risks if they trigger.
• Understand and maintain adherence to the established EPMO methodologies, policies, and procedures to successfully deliver complex projects.
• Demonstrate an understanding of quality standards and apply those to project planning, execution, and documentation. Ensure project team members understand the importance of applying quality practices to the outcome of the project.

Financial Oversight

• Own adherence to approved project budgets, including forecasting, variance reporting, labor tracking, and invoice validation.
• Partner with Finance and department leaders to develop and manage capital and operational project expenditures.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Produce clear, data-driven project dashboards, status reports, and post-implementation reviews for leadership.
• Champion EPMO standards, templates, and best practices to drive consistency and maturity across the project portfolio.
• Contribute to lessons-learned processes and apply insights to improve future project delivery.

• Bachelor’s degree education or equivalent in a related field plus a minimum of 5 years of related experience is required.
• 3 – 6 years of structured project management experience in enterprise technology platforms, infrastructure, software development, or business application implementations is required.
• PMP certification from PMI is a plus.

• Demonstrable experience in building detailed dependency-based project schedules is required.
• Proficiency in Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira, or similar project management tool is required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (e.g. Outlook Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) is required.
• Must be able to multi-task, work with limited supervision, have strong attention to detail and excellent time management skills to ensure all established deadlines are achieved.
• Must possess a strong work ethic, excellent interpersonal skills, a high drive to succeed, and be a problem solver.
• Must have a positive attitude towards change and be able to identify the need, remove the barriers, and progress the work.
• Experience with industry standard PPM tools (e.g. OnePlan, PlanView) is a plus.
• Understanding of the organizational change management discipline and how it is applied in project management, along with practical experience developing and implementing Change Management plans is a plus.
• Act with integrity in all ways and at all times, remaining honest, transparent, and respectful in all relationships.
• Keep the patient at the center of everything that you do, building lifelong trust.
• Foster open collaboration and constructive dialogue with everyone around you.
• Continuously innovate new solutions, influencing and responding to change.
• Focus on superior outcomes, and calibrate work processes for outstanding results.

• Competitive Compensation Packages
• 8 Paid National Holidays & 4 additional Floating Holidays
• PTO that includes Vacation and Sick time
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401k Savings and Retirement Plan
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave for New Parents
• Flexible Work Schedules and Part-time Opportunities
• Generous Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Mentorship Programs- Mentor and Mentee
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance by Location
• Relocation Assistance
• Regional & National traveling CPO/CO/CP opportunities
• Volunteering for Local and National events such as Hanger’s BAKA Bootcamp and EmpowerFest

Hanger, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. All conditions and privileges of employment are administered to all employees without discrimination or harassment because of race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, special disabled veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. The company will comply with all applicable state or local fair employment laws that forbid discrimination or harassment on the basis of other protected characteristics. Retaliation against any employee for filing or supporting a complaint of discrimination or harassment is prohibited.

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