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What is the difference between Project Manager Informatics vs Clinical Project Manager?

AspectProject Manager InformaticsClinical Project Manager
Required CredentialsBachelor's degree in health informatics, IT, or related field; certifications like PMP or CAPMBachelor's degree in life sciences, healthcare, or related; certifications like PMP or RAC
Work EnvironmentHealthcare IT departments, hospitals, health systemsPharmaceutical companies, CROs, clinical research sites
Employer & Industry UsageHealth informatics, healthcare technologyClinical research, pharmaceutical industry
Common Search & Comparison IntentUnderstanding roles in healthcare IT projectsManaging clinical trials and research projects

While both roles involve project management skills and healthcare knowledge, Project Manager Informatics focuses on health IT systems and data integration, whereas Clinical Project Manager specializes in overseeing clinical trials and research studies. The choice depends on whether your interest lies in healthcare technology or clinical research management.

Is project manager informatics still in demand?

Project Manager Informatics roles are in demand due to the increasing reliance on healthcare IT, data management, and digital transformation initiatives. These positions often require knowledge of informatics systems, project management skills, and certifications like PMP or CPHIMS, with employment growth driven by technological advancements in various industries.

What is a project manager in informatics?

A project manager in informatics oversees the planning, execution, and completion of technology-related projects, ensuring they meet deadlines, budgets, and technical requirements. They coordinate teams, manage resources, and often use tools like MS Project or Jira, requiring strong organizational and communication skills.

Program Manager, Informatics R&D

Carlsbad, CA • On-site

Alphatec Spine
Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing • 501 - 1,000 employees
Learn more about Alphatec Spineexternal

Full-time

Re-posted 14 days ago

Job description

We are seeking an experiencedProgram Managerto support execution of cross-functional Informatics R&D programs involving software-intensive medical products, includingSoftware as a Medical Device (SaMD)andSoftware in a Medical Device (SiMD)deployed onelectro-mechanical systems or cloud platforms.

This role is responsible for driving disciplined execution withindefined program or project scope,ensuring that work is planned, tracked, and delivered with clarity and accountability in a regulated medical device environment. The Program Manager coordinates cross-functional teams, maintains visibility into execution status, and ensures that deliverables, risks, decisions, and action items are actively managed.

To be successful the ideal candidatewould beorganized, collaborative, detail-oriented, and able to keep cross-functional teams aligned on priorities, commitments, execution risks, and next steps.

Role Scope

The Program Manager owns execution tracking and coordination fordefined projects or programswith established objectives, timelines, and constraints. This role is accountable for maintaining execution discipline, creating transparency, and ensuring that assigned work progresses with clarity, ownership, and appropriate escalation.

This includes:

  • Maintaining project or program plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items.
  • Coordinating cross-functional deliverables across technical, regulatory, quality, clinical, product, and operational stakeholders.
  • Ensuring meetings, plans, decisions, and follow-up actions are documented and driven to closure.
  • Identifyingand solvingexecution gaps, open decisions, risks, and unresolved dependencies.
  • Escalating issues in a timely and constructive manner to support on-time, on-scope execution.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
    • Manage defined Informatics R&D projects or programs involving software, systems engineering, data platforms, cloud technologies, medical device software, and related informatics capabilities.
    • Build and maintain project or program plans covering scope, milestones, schedules, dependencies, deliverables, risks, decisions, and action items.
    • Coordinate program execution through regular status reporting, meeting cadence, action tracking, decision tracking, risk tracking, and issue escalation.
    • Coordinate cross-functional deliverables across software engineering, systems engineering, data and informatics, product management, regulatory, quality, verification and validation, clinical, operations, and other stakeholder groups.
    • Lead core team meetings and planning discussions, ensuring actions, owners, decisions, risks, and open issues are documented and followed through to closure.
    • Support programs involving SaMD andSiMDproducts deployed on electro-mechanical systems or cloud platforms, ensuring execution follows applicable design controls, quality system expectations, regulatory plans, and controlled documentation processes.
    • Partner with Systems Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, and Quality to coordinate development, verification, validation, risk management, and regulatory deliverables.
    • Track scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs within assigned projects or programs.
    • Support roadmap, release, and portfolio planning activities by providing accurate project status, schedule, risk, and dependency information.
    • Use modern project planning, development support, and collaboration tools to create visibility, manage execution, track dependencies, and support decision-making.
    • Communicate project or program status, risks, issues, and recommendations clearly to core teams, functional managers, and program leadership.

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