[Hiring] Director Project Management @Intermountain Health

Role Description

The role directs and oversees teams within a project management function to ensure projects are implemented according to expectations and to achieve benefits realization. The role leads and participates in defining project management best practices, professional standards, tools, and processes and is accountable for their teams’ alignment to defined best practices.

This position can be performed remotely with business travel as-needed. Intermountain Health maintains employment registration in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. Candidates in other locations may be considered. Currently, we are not hiring remote workers in the following states: CA, CT, HI, IL, MA, MN, NY, PA, RI, VT, and WA. Please note that a video interview through Microsoft Teams will be required as well as potential onsite interviews and meetings.

Essential Functions

• Leads teams and provides human resource and supervisory oversight to managers and program or project managers.
• Leads and participates in the oversight of project governance and prioritization, assigning resources according to demand-and-capacity constraints.
• Responsible for planning and setting the strategic direction of the department in conjunction with input from stakeholders, the AVP Project Management and other necessary participants.
• Monitors and reports summarized data describing project health across the enterprise.
• Builds a winning culture with a repeatable, process-based approach that recognizes the interdependence of all key stakeholders in the solutions delivery process.
• Leads teams to complete complex projects and programs on-time and within budget.
• Creates and maintains staffing plans to support the current and future work demands and project deliverables.
• Plans for and assigns resources to optimize capacity (capacity planning) and facilitates resource allocation across multiple business lines and functional areas.
• Leads and participates in the definition of and compliance with the overall Intermountain Project Management quality standards and best practices.
• Monitors and reports teams’ performance and project KPIs.
• Ensures proper monitoring and reporting of project deliverables and outcomes.
• Responsible for directing the work of employees, including staffing, goal setting, coaching, and mentoring, employee recognition, engagement and training, recruitment, and performance management.
• Regularly communicates with staff through huddles, team meetings, individual one on one meetings, rounding, and skip level interviews.
• Manages customer, stakeholder, and vendor relationships and expectations.
• Focuses on solutions and strategies that create win/win situations both inside and outside of the organization.
• Validates financial forecasts and expected benefits across projects and programs within portfolio.
• Reconciles resources and other project expenses and tracks actual value to expected results.
• Assists in annual budget process.
• Responsible for planning and managing daily operations of project management teams within the parameters of the departmental operating and capital budgets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years supervisory experience with direct reports is required.
• 7+ years demonstrated supervisory leadership experience including coaching, training, and change management is required.
• Proven experience planning and implementing strategic goals is required.
• Proven success building and managing strong teams across a portfolio of complex projects and programs is required.
• Expertise in stakeholder identification/management, engagement with operational and strategic elements of the enterprise is required.
• Proven success in program and project management disciplines with demonstrated ability to complete projects with on-time results and benefit realization is required.
• Demonstrated executive presence including the ability to skillfully collaborate with senior and executive leaders is required.
• Expert-level experience managing financial, budgetary, and resource capacity is required.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in program and project management disciplines is preferred.
• Expert Level Certified Program or Project Management designation is preferred.
• Proven prior experience in Merger and Acquisition integration project management is preferred.
• Advanced degree in a field such as business administration, information technology, construction management, or healthcare is preferred.
• Prior experience working in an integrated healthcare delivery organization is preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in organizational and cultural change management is preferred.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
• Eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan.
• AP4P award opportunities calculated as a percentage of base salary.

Company Description

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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