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Ascension · 20 hours ago

Strategic Delivery Director

Milwaukee, WI

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$143K/yr - $202K/yr

3+ years exp

Ascension is a large healthcare organization committed to serving others and providing compassionate care. They are seeking a Strategic Delivery Director to guide the development of long-term goals and initiatives, manage technology governance, and foster strong relationships with market leaders.

CharityHealth CareHospitalNon Profit

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Portfolio Management - Articulate, and guide the development of long-term goals and initiatives that foster the ministry’s growth trajectory. Develop a mechanism for tracking initiative health and proactively identify risks requiring attention

Governance - Defines and oversees demand management expectations for team and partners. Including but not limited to working with market executives to establish and maintain a robust Market Governance process that ensures all technology requests are strategically aligned, properly vetted, and prioritized. This process encompasses ideation, evaluation, and decision-making, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively and that decisions align with both short-term needs and long-term strategic objectives

Escalations and Problem Resolution - Serves as the primary point within the market for partners and team members to escalate technology problems with both projects and routine operations. Skilled in independently assessing the issue and owning the engagement of the appropriate stakeholders to overcome

Expert Advising - Shape and influence market partners' strategic technology decisions through expert guidance, persuasion, and negotiation. The Director fosters a culture of collaborative decision-making, where market partners are empowered to make informed choices, while also skillfully navigating resistance and setting boundaries without directly rejecting ideas. The goal is to eliminate a passive, "order-taking" mentality and instead create a proactive, solution-oriented partnership

Servant Leadership - Leading, guiding, giving feedback with influence and ownership without direct reporting structure of associates. Collaborating with other leaders to meet customer expectations

Relationship Management (market) - Develop and maintain strong relationships with market leaders at various levels resulting in a dynamic where the partners consider the Director their primary point of contact for technology interests and challenges

Team Culture - Building a strong, cohesive culture between a ministry and across the towers within Ascension Technology. Ensure approaches their work as problem solvers (versus problem admiration) - and approaches their work in a way that demonstrates a "We" culture with their AT colleagues

Qualification

LeadershipStrategic ThinkingProblem-SolvingCommunicationCollaborationMulti-taskingSelf-directedCritical Thinking

Required

High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management

Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management

Leadership

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Problem-Solving

Critical Thinking

Collaboration

Multi-tasking

Self-directed

Preferred

7+ years of Information Technology experience (10+ years preferred)

5+ years of leadership/management experience preferred

Bachelor's degree or Master's degree preferred

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

Company

Ascension

Glassdoor3.4

Answering God's call to bring health, healing and hope to all.

Founded in 1999

St Louis, Missouri, USA

10001+ employees

https://healthcare.ascension.org

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