[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @University of Washington Medical Center

Role Description

UW Medicine has an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join their Enterprise Revenue Cycle (ERC) team. With the support of the Revenue Cycle Transformation Director, the Senior PM will be a thought leader/partner with ERC leaders, in challenging the status quo in operations to address challenges and gaps. They will identify, projectize, and deliver transformational and innovative changes to improve financial performance, optimize processes, enhance the patient experience, and empower staff to work smarter and more effectively.

The Senior PM will lead in identifying the strategic and business value of project ideas and drive the successful planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and completion of assigned programs and projects. These programs and projects may be in support of critical initiatives (e.g., Denials Reduction, Vendor/Expense Management), the adoption/use of new applications or functionalities of existing applications (e.g., Epic Propensity to Pay, Epic AI Functionalities), and transformational efforts that include but are not limited to the optimization/re-design of workflows, processes, policies, and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and engage in revenue cycle transformation strategy discussions
• Lead program and project initiation and planning phases
• Actively identify and manage program and project issues and risks
• Manage scope, budget, ROI, and schedule for assigned programs and projects
• Develop and maintain a service-oriented and collaborative relationship with UW Medicine leaders, ERC leaders, principal stakeholders, resource managers and other members of the project team
• Manage execution of programs and projects within UW Medicine standard program and project framework
• Manage implementation and post-implementation closeout for assigned programs and projects
• Provide direction and supervision to project team
• Manage vendors
• Contribute to revenue cycle transformation team development, standards and activities.

Qualifications

• 6+ years working as a project or program manager on process improvement, vendor solution implementation projects and progressively complex projects and programs
• 3+ years working with multiple and diverse teams of stakeholders and leaders
• 2+ years’ experience managing Revenue Cycle projects
• Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and all levels of management
• Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executive sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers
• Experience working within established PMO
• Experience with vendor negotiation
• Experience with PMI-based program and project management techniques
• Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.

Requirements

• Pay Range Minimum: $114,000.00 annual
• Pay Range Maximum: $138,000.00 annual
• Shift: First Shift (United States of America)
• Temporary or Regular: This is a regular position
• FTE (Full-Time Equivalent): 100.00%
• Union/Bargaining Unit: Not Applicable

Benefits

• For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/