Program Manager - Lab Operations

Location: 1620 W Harrison St, Chicago, Illinois 60612

Business Unit: Rush University System for Health

Department: Rush Medical Lab Administration

Work Type: Full-Time - 40 Hours per week (1.0 FTE)

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Pay Range: $104,312 - $169,770 per year

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Summary:

The Program Manager will lead a collection of project implementations, providing program-level oversight to cross-functional teams, ensuring that individual initiatives within the program are aligned, successful, and on track to delivery intended outcomes and value. The Program Manager will provide tactical leadership and guidance to project managers and operational/technical project team members, ensuring that roles are clearly defined, scope/schedule/budget/value remain on track, and that the RUSH execution model is well adopted and optimized within each team.

The Program Manager will work under the guidance of the System TMO Director and will partner with other operational, clinical and technology leaders to ensure that teams are successful and that organizational best practices are consistently applied. The role will also support operational leaders along with the System TMO in planning and executing organizational transformation plans related to Rush's strategic goals.

Other information:
Required

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training.

• At least five (5) years of experience in healthcare, management consulting, strategy, or related fields; may also be in a technology company, in a strategy/growth/product role.

• At least 3 years in large scale program and/or project management experience overseeing enterprise implementations preferably within a health system.

• Requires expert, demonstrated knowledge of project management principles, theories, and concepts.

• Requires ability to assess systemwide needs for products and design services to meet those needs.

• Working knowledge of related initiatives and an understanding the impact on the organization of such initiatives.

• Demonstrated attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to determine relevance and prioritize tasks.

• Demonstrated effective writing and communications skills.

• Experience in healthcare, product development, strategy, or related field.

• Agile scrum experience highly preferred.

• Attention to detail; ability to track and communicate work at multiple levels of granularity.

• Intellectual curiosity and strong critical thinking skills with ability to synthesize disparate sources of data.

• Entrepreneurial spirit and drive. Willingness to take risks, to advocate for new ideas, coupled with a commitment to measurement and accountability.

• Strong persuasion and negotiations skills, and the ability to engage, challenge and influence one's thinking to effect change throughout an organization.

• Commitment to the highest ethical and professional standards; personal and professional integrity above reproach

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.

Preferred

Job Qualifications:

• Experience leading a team of technology professionals.

• Hospital, ambulatory, or medical center operations experience.

• Strong knowledge of definitions and uses of data, financial and reporting systems, information flow, and data architecture. Competency in query functions and language, and basic data modeling.

• Project Management Professional (PMP)/Scrum Master certification.

Physical Demands:

Competencies:

• Knowledge of all aspects of computing and communications including hardware infrastructure, networking, software, operations, and disaster recovery.

• Understands how projects relate to other business strategies and initiatives.

• Understands the cost impact of…