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SmithRxSmithRxUnited States

Director of Project Management

Leads project management office, owns stage-gate processes, portfolio visibility, and executive reporting for 50+ workstreams. Requires 10+ years PMO experience, cross-functional leadership, and tools like Smartsheet/Jira in fast-paced environments.

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Remote10+ YOEBusiness Operations

About the role

What you will do

1. Governance & Stage-Gate Leadership

  • Own the Lifecycle: Define and enforce a unified Stage-Gate process (e.g., Intake → Discovery → Alignment → Execution → Post-Launch).
  • Gatekeeping: Ensure clear entry/exit criteria and decision frameworks at each gate to minimize "scope churn" and rework.
  • Strategic Mapping: Ensure every project in the portfolio is accurately mapped to Company OKRs with a robust risk mitigation plan.
  • Trade-off Analysis: Surface critical trade-offs regarding cost, timing, and complexity to enable senior leadership to make high-durability decisions.

2. Portfolio Visibility & Executive Insights

  • Master Portfolio Ownership: Maintain 100% data integrity across all initiatives, providing a "single source of truth."
  • Executive Storytelling: Translate data from 50+ concurrent workstreams into bi-weekly, high-intensity ELT reports that facilitate rapid decision-making.
  • Automation & ROI: Partner with Finance and Data Analytics to transition manual tracking into real-time, automated visualization tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira, or Atlas).

3. Leadership & Capability Building

  • Team Development: Lead and mentor a team of project managers, establishing a culture of "Extreme Ownership" and execution excellence.
  • Cross-Functional Training: Train Product, Engineering, and Operations teams on effective project management discipline and Stage-Gate rigors.
  • Continuous Improvement: Lead retrospectives to identify "information dark spots" and delivery bottlenecks, driving lean improvements across the organization.

4. Execution Excellence

  • Improve predictability, speed, and quality of project delivery
  • Drive accountability across teams for timelines, deliverables, and outcomes
  • Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts
  • Optimize tools (e.g., Smartsheet) to support scalable execution

What you will bring to SmithRx

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of project management experience, with significant experience in Directive or Enterprise PMO (EPMO) environment.
  • Demonstrated success leading innovation pipelines and stage gate processes
  • Experience operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with shifting priorities
  • Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment and decision-making without direct authority
  • Strong ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights for leadership
  • Experience building or scaling PMO functions and improving organizational capability
  • Expertise in project management tools
  • Lean / Continuous Improvement experience (preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with async reporting models to reduce meeting overhead.
  • Familiarity with healthcare-specific OKRs and operational excellence (OpEx)

Skills

SmartsheetJiraAtlasStage-GateOkrsLeanPmoContinuous ImprovementProject Management ToolsRisk Mitigation

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