Director Project Management

Job Description:

The role directs and oversees teams within a project management function to ensure projects are implemented according to expectations and to achieve benefits realization. The role leads and participates in defining project management best practices, professional standards, tools, and processes and is accountable for their teams’ alignment to defined best practices.
This position can be performed remotely with business travel as-needed. Intermountain Health maintains employment registration in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. Candidates in other locations may be considered. Currently, we are not hiring remote workers in the following states: CA, CT, HI, IL, MA, MN, NY, PA, RI, VT, and WA. Please note that a video interview through Microsoft Teams will be required as well as potential onsite interviews and meetings.

Essential Functions

• Leads teams and provides human resource and supervisory oversight to managers and program or project managers.

• Leads and participates in the oversight of project governance and prioritization, assigning resources according to demand-and-capacity constraints.
• Responsible for planning and setting the strategic direction of the department in conjunction with input from stakeholders, the AVP Project Management and other necessary participants.
• Monitors and reports summarized data describing project health across the enterprise.
• Builds a winning culture with a repeatable, process-based approach that recognizes the interdependence of all key stakeholders in the solutions delivery process.
• Leads teams to complete complex projects and programs on-time and within budget.
• Creates and maintains staffing plans to support the current and future work demands and project deliverables. Plans for and assigns resources to optimize capacity (capacity planning) and facilitates resource allocation across multiple business lines and functional areas.
• Leads and participates in the definition of and compliance with the overall Intermountain Project Management quality standards and best practices. Monitors and reports teams’ performance and project KPIs.
• Ensures proper monitoring and reporting of project deliverables and outcomes.
• Responsible for directing the work of employees, including staffing, goal setting, coaching, and mentoring, employee recognition, engagement and training, recruitment, and performance management.
• Regularly communicates with staff through huddles, team meetings, individual one on one meetings, rounding, and skip level interviews.
• Manages customer, stakeholder, and vendor relationships and expectations. Focuses on solutions and strategies that create win / win situations both inside and outside of the organization.
• Validates financial forecasts and expected benefits across projects and programs within portfolio – reconciles resources and other project expenses and tracks actual value to expected results.

• Assists in annual budget process. Responsible for planning and managing daily operations of project management teams within the parameters of the departmental operating and capital budgets.

Skills

• Leadership
• Strategic planning
• Communication
• People management
• Stakeholder analysis and management
• Business acumen
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Deliverables management
• Human Resources
• Continual process improvement
• Change management

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years supervisory experience with direct reports is required.
• 7+ years demonstrated supervisory leadership experience including coaching, training, and change management is required. Experience may include non-supervisory roles.
• Proven experience planning and implementing strategic goals is required.
• Proven success building and managing strong teams across a portfolio of complex projects and programs, leading caregivers, and teams inside and outside of span of control is required.
• Expertise in stakeholder identification/management, engagement with operational and strategic elements of the enterprise, customer service, leading through influence, problem resolution, communication, and negotiation is required.
• Proven success in program and project management disciplines with demonstrated ability to complete projects with on-time results and benefit realization is required.

• Demonstrated executive presence including the ability to skillfully collaborate with senior and executive leaders and teams is required.
• Expert-level experience managing financial, budgetary, and resource capacity with the ability to develop, manage, and track project budgets is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in program and project management disciplines with demonstrated ability to successfully complete projects with on-time delivery and benefit realization is preferred.
• Expert Level Certified Program or Project Management designation is preferred. Qualifying certifications include PMI-PMP, PMI-PgMP, PMI-PfMP, AHA-CHC, IAPM-CSPM, IAPM-CSAPM, AAPM-Master Project Manager, GAQM-Certified Project Director, PMI-ACP, PMI-DASSM, PMI-DAC, and/or PMI-DAVSC
• Proven prior experience in Merger and Acquisition integration project management is preferred.
• Advanced degree in a field such as business administration, information technology, construction management, or healthcare is preferred. The degree must be from an accredited institution and will be verified.
• Prior experience working in an integrated healthcare delivery organization is preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in organizational and cultural change management is preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for the employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require the employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing, and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan. This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Board-approved goals.

Location:

Key Bank Tower

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$68.42 - $105.62

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment. I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain. Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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