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Hospital IT Account Manager
All, Healthcare
Boston, MA
Location: Boston, MA (Greater Boston Area) | Schedule: Full-time, primarily on-site | Compensation: Not specified
Overview
A large healthcare environment in the Greater Boston area is seeking an experienced Hospital IT Account Owner to lead managed IT services delivery. This highly visible, client-facing leadership role serves as the primary point of accountability for the account, overseeing client relationships, service delivery, staffing, escalations, and technology initiatives in a complex, high-availability hospital setting.
What you'll do
- Serve as the primary point of contact and accountability for the hospital account
- Develop trusted relationships with hospital executives, IT leadership, department directors, clinical stakeholders, and technical teams
- Lead business reviews and stakeholder meetings covering service performance, account health, initiatives, risks, and priorities
- Proactively identify and resolve service issues and account risks
- Collaborate with internal leadership to identify opportunities to expand or improve services
- Oversee Help Desk and IT Field Services delivery across the hospital environment
- Ensure staffing levels, service coverage, and operating hours meet contractual and operational requirements
- Manage technician scheduling, shift coverage, on-call rotations, and workload balancing
- Monitor key service metrics and SLAs, including incident response, resolution times, and first-call resolution
- Serve as an escalation point for critical incidents, major service disruptions, and after-hours events
- Help ensure operational readiness across endpoints, printers, mobile devices, AV systems, and other supported clinical technologies
- Take ownership of critical incidents, service failures, and client-facing issues through resolution
- Coordinate internal technical teams, vendors, and hospital IT resources during complex incidents
- Lead post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and corrective-action planning
- Provide clear and timely communication regarding incident status, expected resolution, risks, and corrective actions
- Oversee account-level technology projects including implementations, upgrades, technology refreshes, and workflow improvements
- Coordinate project resources, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, and stakeholder communication
- Ensure technology initiatives are executed with minimal disruption to clinical operations
- Support appropriate change-management processes within the hospital environment
- Participate in budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and overall account performance management
- Monitor labor utilization, overtime, vendor expenses, service metrics, and operational trends
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and control costs without compromising service quality
- Ensure accurate documentation and activity tracking within ITSM platforms
- Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, and coaching to Help Desk and Field Services personnel
- Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and employee development
- Establish clear expectations around accountability, professionalism, responsiveness, and client service
- Identify training and development opportunities for team members
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in IT managed services, healthcare IT, IT service delivery, or a related environment with significant client-facing responsibility
- Previous experience working in or supporting a hospital or health system environment
- Strong understanding of Help Desk operations, IT Field Services, SLAs, and IT service management
- Experience with ITSM and service platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira, Talkdesk, or similar technologies
- Demonstrated experience managing teams, staffing, scheduling, service coverage, and escalations within a 24/7 environment
- Strong executive-level communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively with hospital executives, clinical stakeholders, IT leadership, technical teams, and vendors
- Strong judgment and the ability to make independent decisions in high-pressure or ambiguous situations
Preferred qualifications
- ITIL Foundation certification or comparable IT service-management training
- Experience with workforce management, capacity planning, or Erlang C modeling for Help Desk environments
- Knowledge of HIPAA and healthcare IT compliance requirements
- Experience with telecom, DAS/5G infrastructure, endpoint management, or related hospital technologies
- Project management experience within healthcare or enterprise IT; PMP or similar certification is a plus
Compensation and benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible hours
- Paid time off
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Matching 401(k)
- Collaborative, team-oriented work environment
Why this role
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced healthcare IT service-delivery leader who enjoys owning a complex client environment and balancing executive relationship management, technical service delivery, team leadership, and operational accountability.
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