Northwestern Medicine · 14 hours ago
Program Manager, Information Services
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expNorthwestern Medicine is a leader in the healthcare industry, committed to providing exceptional service and innovative solutions. The Program Manager for Information Services will oversee a portfolio of IT projects, ensuring alignment with corporate goals through effective project and process management methodologies.
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Responsibilities
Provide leadership and guidance for the use of NMHC standard project management and process improvement methodologies
Manage project lifecycle of initiate, plan, execute, close, complete projects including IT value measurement definition
Assists in the organizational development and enhancement of project/process management competence. Develop educational, coaching and mentoring programs necessary to support the adoption of NMHC project and process methodologies
Leads comprehensive planning efforts necessary to establish measure, enhance and report organizational management performance. Participate in regular project review meetings where status on milestone performance, issues, project changes and budgets are communicated
Establish and execute effective and efficient communication mechanisms which enable continuous exchange of ideas and information, regulation/project developments among team members, NMHC Executives (sponsors) and vendor partners
Selects and/or establishes the necessary policies, methodologies, procedures and practices to support process and project managers
Establish and maintain effective communications within the Agile Office and broader organization report program and project status. Provide assessment and report of overall portfolio performance to various executive groups
Leads selection and/or development of appropriate organizational standards for software tools necessary to support successful project management, budget reporting and resource allocation
Leads development and maintenance of appropriate project infrastructure, tools and/or methods necessary to communicate and coordinate project detail and status
Ensure the development and management of individual project budgets; serve as a primary resource to individual project leaders for budget planning, particularly the annual capital planning and submission process
Demonstrate the ability to work with the technical and applications teams to develop project tasks, work effort required for these tasks, and define a work schedule with planned dates
Demonstrate the ability to ‘get things done’, effectively directing the execution of the project office function to support the achievement of successful, on-time and on-budget delivery of IT commitments
Demonstrate the ability to deal with the changing environment and to lead/facilitate and manage change efficiently and effectively where appropriate
Conduct process assessments, identifying non-value-added activities. Develop and execute plans to improve these processes using NMHC process improvement methodologies (DMAIC)
Unquestionable integrity, credibility and character with demonstrated high moral, ethical behavior
Participate in and/or support relevant IT benchmarking, survey and specific research activities as well as subject matter related educational seminars and events
Support the development of executive level presentations that are related to initiatives
Be responsible for understanding vendor contracts with NMHC to ensure vendor compliance to project schedules, contractual agreements and compliance with NMHC standards. Maintain central file of active vendor contracts
Participate in the NMHC capital and operating budget planning process. Proficient knowledge of budget preparation, budget management and budget change control
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
5 or more years of experience in Information Services management or project management
Demonstrated process improvement and analysis skills
Demonstrated ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with peers and constituents at all levels of the organization
Excellent team building and problem-solving skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Outstanding coordination, facilitation, consultation and conflict resolution skills
Ability to work in a complex, cross-organizational system
Demonstrated analysis and problem-solving skills
Preferred
Healthcare technology background
Master's degree in related field preferred
Benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Loan forgiveness
401(k) matching
Lifecycle benefits
Company
Northwestern Medicine
Northwestern Medicine is the collaboration between Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine around a strategic vision to transform the future of health care.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (75)
2024 (66)
2023 (70)
2022 (78)
2021 (35)
2020 (39)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25M2018-06-26Grant· $25M
Leadership Team
Howard Chrisman, MD
President and CEO
John A. Orsini, CPA
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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