Project Manager

Welcome to Ovation Healthcare!

At Ovation Healthcare, we've been making local healthcare better for more than 40 years. Our mission is to strengthen independent community healthcare. We provide independent hospitals and health systems with the support, guidance and tech-enabled shared services needed to remain strong and viable. With a strong sense of purpose and commitment to operating excellence, we help rural healthcare providers fulfill their missions.

The Ovation Healthcare difference is the extraordinary combination of operations experience and consulting guidance that fulfills our mission of creating a sustainable future for healthcare organizations. Ovation Healthcare's vision is to be a dynamic, integrated professional services company delivering innovative and executable solutions through experience and thought leadership, while valuing trust, respect, and customer focused behavior.

We're looking for talented, motivated professionals with a desire to help independent hospitals thrive. Working with Ovation Healthcare you will have the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled subject matter specialists and operations executives, in a collegial atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork.

Ovation Healthcare's corporate headquarters is located in Brentwood, TN. For more information, visit https://ovationhc.com.

Summary

Leads planning, execution governance, risk management, and stakeholder reporting for the Vulnerability, Patching, and Hardening program. Ensures engineering teams deliver remediation work on schedule, within approved change windows, with complete documentation, evidence, and service level agreement aligned reporting.

Essential functions

• Build and manage the integrated program plan and rolling schedule for vulnerability remediation, patching, and hardening across all towers.

• Run execution governance including readiness reviews, weekly stakeholder cadence, change scheduling discipline, and post-implementation reviews.

• Maintain the risk, action, issue, and decision log and drive timely escalation and decision closure.

• Coordinate dependencies across Security, Service Desk, Service Management, application owners, infrastructure teams, and client stakeholders.

• Partner with delivery leads to ensure Qualys Vulnerability Management findings are translated into actionable remediation waves and validated closure reporting.

• Publish executive-ready status reporting including schedule performance, risks, remediation progress, vulnerability aging, compliance trends, and service level agreement attainment.

• Ensure documentation quality including runbooks, implementation plans, communications templates, and evidence packages for audit and compliance needs.

• Support resource planning, capacity forecasting, and surge planning during high severity vulnerability events.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of project management experience leading infrastructure operations, remediation, endpoint, server, or network delivery programs.

• Demonstrated experience managing programs that require after-hours change windows, formal change governance, and measurable operational outcomes.

• Strong command of metrics and reporting, including service level agreement tracking and executive-level status communications.

• Working knowledge of vulnerability management concepts and tool-assisted validation, including Qualys Vulnerability Management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hospital information technology experience strongly preferred; broader healthcare experience preferred.

• Certifications highly desirable: Project Management Professional, Certified ScrumMaster, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent.

Work Schedule Expectations

• Flexibility to support governance and communications surrounding after-hours maintenance activities.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:

• Reliable high-speed internet connection is required for all remote/hybrid positions.

• Must have access to stable Wi-Fi with sufficient bandwidth to support video conferencing, cloud-based tools, and other online work-related activities.

• A HIPAA-compliant work environment is required, including a secure workspace free from unauthorized access or interruptions, no use of public Wi-Fi unless connected through a secure company-provided VPN, and compliance with all applicable HIPAA privacy and security regulations.

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