IT Project Manager – Healthcare (m/f/d)

IT Advanced Consulting seeks a Senior IT Project Manager in Zürich to lead digital healthcare projects from concept to adoption, reporting directly to the CIO Switzerland.

This position is responsible for steering digital initiatives from initial concept through successful user adoption, ensuring timely delivery within scope and measurable impact on patient care. The role reports directly to the CIO Switzerland and collaborates closely with clinical teams, IT experts, commercial partners, and external vendors to bring structure to complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete IT project lifecycle, including scope definition, objective setting, timeline creation, budget oversight, and coordination of implementation, testing, go-live phases, and user adoption strategies.
• Unite clinical, technical, and commercial stakeholders to facilitate decision-making, maintain alignment, and guide external vendors and delivery partners.
• Track risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating critical matters early with actionable mitigation plans while ensuring compliance with governance, security, and quality standards.
• Spearhead change management, digital, and AI initiatives, oversee the integration of newly acquired entities, and identify technological opportunities to enhance patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Business Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing IT projects within complex, international settings.
• Solid technical background in infrastructure, applications, and digital solutions.
• Exceptional planning, coordination, and execution capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities while meeting deadlines.
• Risk awareness, sound judgment, and a solution-oriented mindset.
• High level of ownership and a proactive, results-driven attitude.
• Fluency in English plus German or French.

Nice to have

• Experience working with external vendors and service providers.
• Knowledge of the Swiss healthcare system.
• A project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, Agile).

What the company offers

• High visibility reporting directly to the CIO Switzerland.
• Real impact where projects directly improve how patients are cared for.
• A varied portfolio ranging from infrastructure and applications to digital and AI initiatives.
• Flexibility with a base in Fribourg or Zurich, and partial remote work.
• Work within an international, growing healthcare organisation in full transformation.

About the company

The company operates within an international, growing healthcare organization undergoing significant transformation. They believe digital transformation in healthcare only works when projects actually get delivered.

• The company believes digital transformation in healthcare only works when projects actually get delivered.