Director, Project Management (IT)

Posting Date

04/10/2026

5200 Virginia Way, Brentwood, Tennessee, 37027, United States of America

No Brag, Just Fact!

Over the last decade, we set out to be the world's greatest dialysis company, and over the next decade, we're poised to build the greatest healthcare community the world has ever seen. When you join the DaVita Village, you're joining a winning team. Through our commitment to training, growth and quality, we consistently achieve superior clinical outcomes while giving teammates the opportunity to excel in an award-winning environment that enables them to thrive both professionally and personally.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Position has full supervisory responsibility for recruitment, hiring, retention, performance development, performance management, salary adjustments, and termination of direct reports.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

The following duties and responsibilities generally reflect the expectations of this position but are not intended to be all-inclusive.

• Establishes strategic direction, goals, and action plans for App Dev project management capability area.  Measures accomplishments, ensures appropriate execution, and celebrates success.
• Overall accountability for leadership and management of project professional teammates.  Ensuring that roles/responsibilities and performance measures of success are established and clearly communicated.  Holds team accountable for delivery of goals and demonstrating behaviors that align with DaVita's Mission and Values.
• Establishes, maintains and continuously improves processes and standards for all aspects of project planning and execution in area of responsibility.
• Ensuring accurate and complete project estimations are developed.
• Partners closely with Development Management, Quality Management and Program Management to achieve successful project initiation and execution across portfolio of application development projects.
• Responsible for the department budget
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Education, licenses, certifications, and experience required to fulfill the essential duties, include computer skills as required.

• Bachelor degree in IT, Business or related field, Master degree preferred. 
• 10 years of related experience with at least 5 of those years leading custom application development in a rapidly growing business environment.  Healthcare experience strongly preferred. 
• Strong critical thinking and leadership skills.  Must be demonstrated and substantiated by references
• Proven success as a change agent and building and motivating a strong project management organization is required.
• Excellent communication skills to include oral, written and listening. Communicates clearly and frequently.  Actively listens.
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships to include effective conflict management. 
• General business skills, ability to understand financials.
• Strong problem analysis and decision-making skills.
• Hands on leadership style, strong work ethic, and adaptive influencing skills. 
• Must be flexible to meet constantly changing needs of the business.
  
  

ESSENTIAL BEHAVIORS, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS IN THIS POSITION

• Commitment to DaVita’s values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment and Fun with ability to demonstrate those positively and proactively to patients, teammates, management, physicians, and/or vendors (Village Service Partners) in everyday performance and interactions
  
  

Language Skills

Fluent in the written and verbal skills necessary to perform successfully the essential functions, duties, and responsibilities of the position.

Vision Requirements

Vision adequate to perform essential duties and responsibilities of position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Physical requirements can vary. These must be reviewed with management. However, in general, the position requires the following physical activities:

What We’ll Provide

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.
  
  

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.