Director, Project Management

Director, Project Management (System)

Role Summary

The Director of Project Management provides enterprise-level portfolio and project leadership, overseeing multiple portfolios, and ensuring overall alignment of the project management function to strategic priorities.

The Director of Project Management embodies delivery excellence, promotes continuous improvement, and maintains strategic focus, independently developing and implementing approaches to address the most complex project and portfolio scenarios to drive value.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Ownership & Delivery

Own delivery of a large body of complex, cross-functional, system-wide projects

Ensure alignment of portfolio and project outcomes to enterprise strategy

Oversee delivery across technology, clinical, operational, and construction domains

Oversee portfolio health, financial performance, and resource strategy

Monitor and intervene where needed in portfolio health (schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, outcomes)

Lead portfolio-level governance and executive reporting

Drive prioritization and sequencing of work

Procurement & Vendor Oversight

Oversee procurement activities across the portfolio

Ensure consistent SOW development and vendor engagement practices

Provide guidance on managing complex vendor engagements

Establish enterprise standards for project procurement and vendor management

Align project procurement strategies with organizational priorities

Optimize vendor ecosystems and strategic partnerships

People Leadership

Lead, coach, and develop project managers and coordinators

Manage performance, career growth, and succession planning

Align team capabilities to portfolio needs

Set and execute strategy to develop project management leaders

Build system-wide capability around project and portfolio management

Operational Excellence

Establish PMO operating models, governance, and standards

Ensure adherence to PMO methodologies and standards

Develop and implement strategies and methods for quantitative analysis to evaluate project health, manage portfolio risks, and support executive governance and prioritization decisions

Drive continuous improvement and maturity of standards, tools, and practices

Stakeholder Engagement

Partner with senior and executive stakeholders (ex. CMO, CFO, VP)

Define and execute strategic priorities in partnership with executive leadership (ex. CMO, CFO, VP)

Serve as escalation point for delivery challenges

Drive cross-functional alignment and enterprise decision-making

Scope & Complexity

The person in this role leads project and portfolio management in a highly complex health system environment, leading portfolios of projects that include scope across multiple domains:

Technology implementations and integrations

Clinical workflow

Strategy and transformation

Business and operational process redesign

Facilities, capital, and construction projects (e.g., new builds, renovations, infrastructure upgrades)

Mergers and acquisitions

Multi-vendor and third-party delivery models

Projects and portfolios are system-wide, involving:

Multiple objectives and interdependent workstreams

Executive-level stakeholders

Cross-functional teams across clinical, operational, technical, and facilities domains

Organizational change management

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s strongly preferred

12+ years of project/program management experience

PMP OR EQUIVALENT CERTIFICATION required

Prior people leadership experience preferred

Experience in large, matrixed organizations preferred

Reside in Eastern or Central time zone

Skills & Competencies

Strategic leadership and enterprise thinking

Executive influence and partnership (ex. VP, CFO, CNO)

Portfolio governance and prioritization

Organizational change leadership

Advanced financial and operational acumen

Leadership and team development

Strategic thinking and decision-making

Advanced risk and dependency management

Strong data management, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Outcome-driven delivery mindset

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org .