University of Washington · 3 months ago
Strategic Facilities Portfolio Manager
The University of Washington is seeking a Strategic Facilities Portfolio Manager to lead the Facilities Portfolio and partner with Facilities groups across UW Medicine and ITS. This role focuses on strategic planning, project prioritization, and managing vendor and stakeholder relationships to support the ongoing and future needs of UW Medicine.
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Responsibilities
Provide strategic and tactical guidance to service line leaders on the overall portfolio and plan
Ensure clarity on scope, schedule, and budget
Provide portfolio communications, including roadmap, dashboards, and reports
Enable and create processes for partnership and service-obsession
Identify and resolve issues and risks
Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and other project planning documents
Communicate pro-actively and broadly
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a healthcare-oriented profession, a technology field, a business-related field, or other discipline that demonstrates analytical or communications abilities, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience
8+ years of overall experience to include the below
8+ years of experience leading, managing, and coaching technology and/or business professionals in progressively more complicated vendor-packaged system deployment and/or process improvement projects
Progressive, relevant experience related to IT portfolio, program, and project management, including demonstrated experience serving a single service-line
Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external constituents, while holding all teams accountable for performance
Demonstrated leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills including the ability to lead multiple business and technology organizations/business units
Experience maintaining relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives
Demonstrated experience effectively working with multiple, diverse stakeholders in a complex project environment within a cross-functional matrix environment
Experience gaining buy-in from executive sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers
Demonstrated experience planning for large, complex, new facilities, including scope, schedule, and budget
Proven ability to make independent administrative/procedural decisions and provide guidance and leadership to staff
Demonstrated experience managing project work and/or work of others within an established standard project lifecycle framework
Cognizant of budgetary and resource constraints
Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors
Demonstrated written and oral communication skills with technical staff, non-technical staff, and all levels of management
Prior experience in a role with significant customer service component
Experience negotiating vendor contracts
Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary
Experience researching best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data using continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results
Benefits
15 days of vacation your first year – Also, 12 days of sick time, 1 personal holiday, and 11 paid holidays each year
100% matching, 100% immediately vesting 403(b)
Company
University of Washington
University of Washington is an educational institution that provides undergraduate, graduate, and research programs.
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (249)
2024 (211)
2023 (159)
2022 (171)
2021 (169)
2020 (154)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$205.35MKey Investors
Avista foundationNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesAdvanced Research Projects Agency for Health
2025-04-21Grant· $0.01M
2024-09-13Grant
2024-08-13Grant· $21.1M
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