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Houston Methodist · 23 hours ago

Project Director - FT Greenbriar

Houston, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

6+ years exp

Houston Methodist is a leading healthcare organization, and they are seeking a Project Director to manage multiple high-value projects across departments. The role involves overseeing project execution, facilitating strategic initiatives, and ensuring successful implementation of project controls while interacting with various levels of the organization.

Health CareMedical

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Uses strategic influence, analytical thinking, tactical planning, attention to detail, time management, and conflict resolution skills to effectively facilitate projects and analyses. Maintains customer confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential

Builds and gains consensus of stakeholders for strategic initiatives. Proactively tailors work products, communications, and style to leadership and a broad range of specific audiences. Presents information to management to support decision-making

Role models healthy relationships in the work environment such as mitigation of conflict, leading problem solving and resolution efforts. Provides proactive and creative recommendations on how to meet goals and handle identified risks and deviations. Recommends initiatives to improve department scores for employee engagement on department scorecard

Collaborates with key stakeholders to champion change throughout the organization, incorporating lessons learned into future projects to ensure desired results

Provide leadership, decision analysis, subject matter expertise, and recommendations for various initiatives throughout department. Provides consultative services, manages and implements multi-faceted strategic and business-related initiatives

Develop and deliver executive presentations and dashboards and communications that may be distributed system-wide

Serves as support to interprofessional workgroups throughout all HM entities. Assists during internal audits and other audits as appropriate. Works in collaboration with other entity operations staff to ensure synergy in duties and reporting

Responsible for the completion and management of strategic projects associated with system structure, education, analytics, data management and any other project for HM systems available to the departments, as assigned. Proactively identifies and resolves project issues; manages project/program deliverables and mitigates project risks

Synthesizes data from various internal and external sources to make informed decisions. Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs

Ensures project documentation (agendas, minutes, project plans, presentations, etc.), some of which may be of a highly confidential nature, is complete, timely, accurate, and in accordance with standards and policies, in order to ensure a successful project outcome

Develops and monitors department quality objectives, milestones and benchmarks, effective tools to measure performance against these standards, providing documentation, and reporting on all plans, priorities, schedules, staff assignments, programs and the current status of the project and assignments

Interprets financial results, generates reports, identifies market trends, and recommends courses of action to executive. Composes clear and concise summaries, written/oral presentations, business plans, trends, and data analysis utilizing a variety of software in order to present recommendations to leadership/project sponsors

Provides input into utilization of human, financial and physical resources within constraints of operating indicators. Assists in the preparation, tracking, and projection of annual operating budget

Leads development of strategies for creative and futuristic planning for delivery of services. Offers innovative solutions through participation in performance improvement projects and activities. Follows up on action items to ensure completion of assignments

Identifies and assumes responsibility of own learning needs, consults with healthcare team experts and seeks continuing education opportunities to meet those needs. Completes and updates the individual development plan (IDP) on an on-going basis. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management

Qualification

PMP CertificationData AnalysisStrategic PlanningProject ManagementAnalytical SkillsCommunication SkillsPresentation SkillsTime ManagementCustomer Service FocusInterpersonal SkillsAdaptabilityProblem SolvingLeadership Skills

Required

Master's degree

Seven years of experience in related discipline. May consider HM employee with six years' experience which include at least four years in a role with progressive leadership responsibilities where the emphasis has been focused on organizational operations. Houston Methodist Fellowship plus two years of demonstrated progressive responsibility satisfies all experience requirements

PMP - Certified Project Management Professional (PMI)

Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations

Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security

Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles

Mature management skills demonstrated by calm and thorough review of situations

Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to conduct effective presentations

Ability to establish and maintain positive Sponsor, project team member and internal relationships

Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills

Strong analytical and interpersonal skills

Ability to independently manage projects in culturally diverse settings – knowledge of different cultural sensitivities

Advanced spreadsheet skills (i.e. creating pivot tables, performing v-lookups, and managing large data sets). Intermediate word-processing and presentation software skills

Strong project and time management skills

Initiative - Exhibits resourcefulness, independent action and judgment that are position appropriate. Evaluates, selects and acts on various methods and strategies for solving problems and meeting objectives

Adaptable – flexible in handling change, able to juggle multiple high priority demands, able to adapt to new situations with innovative ideas or approaches. Can maintain focus on goals and easily adjust to how they are achieved

Professional handling of exposure to confidential/sensitive information

Demonstrated success in consulting effectively with senior level management, the ability to influence others without direct position responsibility and to earn credibility and client trust

Company

Houston Methodist

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Houston Methodist is one of the nation’s leading health systems and academic medical centers.

Founded in 1919

Houston, Texas, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.houstonmethodist.org/

H1B Sponsorship

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