Manager Pathology Labs - Anatomic Pathology, Full Time, Days

Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Reimbursement per year ($10,00

Student Loan Repayment ($10,000)

Professional Development ($1,000)

Wellbeing Fund ($250)

Matching 401(k)

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Life insurance

Annual salary increase and incentive

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Northwestern Medicine seeks a Senior Manager for Pathology Labs to lead operations, drive quality initiatives, and manage staffing and budgets. The role emphasizes staff development, patient-centered service, and adherence to regulatory standards.

The Manager will collaborate with clinical leadership, maintain performance dashboards, and ensure safe, efficient laboratory services while guiding strategic growth and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Laboratory experience with progressive responsibility.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to plan, organize, and direct activities of others.
• Preferred: Master’s degree; professional certification may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with leadership to advance quality strategies and patient satisfaction.
• Manages budget, staffing, and capital/operating budgets.
• Leads development and implementation of quality and efficiency improvements.
• Oversees staff performance and professional development.

Skills

Operations

Performance

Leadership

Staffing

Quality

Budget

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

The salary range for this position is $52.82 - $71.31 (Hourly Rate)

Placement within the salary range is dependent on several factors such as relevant work experience and internal equity. For positions represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range is guided by the rules outlined in the collective bargaining agreement.

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical, emotional, and financial well-being while providing protection for unexpected life events. Please visit our Benefits section located at jobs.nm.org/benefits to learn more.

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From discovery to delivery, come help us shape the future of medicine.

Benefits

• $10,000 Tuition Reimbursement per year ($5,700 part-time)
• $10,000 Student Loan Repayment ($5,000 part-time)
• $1,000 Professional Development per year ($500 part-time)
• $250 Wellbeing Fund per year ($125 for part-time)
• Matching 401(k)
• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Annual Employee Salary Increase and Incentive Bonus
• Paid time off and Holiday pay

Description

The Manager Pathology Labs reflects the mission, vision, and values of Northwestern Medicine, adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

Collaborates with leadership to advance quality strategies, ensure a professional work environment, facilitate timeliness of services, and enhance patient satisfaction. The Manager is responsible for fiscal, human resource, and quality outcomes for their defined service area or unit. The Manager places the needs of the patient and other customers as a priority and demonstrates the skills necessary to meet and exceed expectations. The Manager focuses others on a clearly defined, clearly communicated vision, and engages individuals and groups to achieve that vision. The Manager identifies and develops organizational talent and embraces continuous learning of self and others.

Responsibilities

Core Skills: Operations, Performance, Practice

• Attracts, develops, and retains exceptional service providers and provides those individuals with an environment that fosters excellence through continuous learning
  • Collaborates with Human Resources and other managers to ensure appropriate staffing
  • Advances innovative retention strategies for staff
  • Collaboratively manages the disciplinary process when appropriate
  • Facilitates the annual performance review process
  • Ensure application of staffing tools
  • Facilitates on-boarding of new staff
• Manages people and resources to ensure safe and efficient patient care operations
  • Assumes 24-hour accountability for quality of patient care, human resources, and overall function.
  • In conjunction with the Laboratory Director, Section Medical Director(s) and Administrative Director develops section-based goals to support hospital and division mission and objectives.
  • Ensures that staff exhibit patients’ first standards.
  • Monitors research and investigational activity to assure compliance with hospital policies/procedures.
  • Facilitates a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach to patient care and interdepartmental problem solving/service delivery.
  • Develops and maintains relationships with all customers and suppliers.
  • Assures that service standards are developed, implemented, and evaluated.
  • Creates an environment of high morale and motivated professionals.
  • Ensures that the environment is clean and attractive, safe, and free from hazards for patients, staff, and visitors.
  • Assumes delegated management responsibilities in the absence of the Director.
  • Maintains Relative Value Unit (RVU), and productivity systems.
  • Maintains department Service Master.
  • Provides coordinated access between all vendors of Northwestern Medicine departments.
  • Facilitates planned growth in new program areas.
  • Participates and takes leadership roles in Hospital Committees as appropriate.
• Established, implements, and monitors the unit or service area’s capital and operating budget to achieve defined targets
  • Creates annual operating budget and is accountable for monthly financial performance
  • Creates and implements new and replacement capital requests and department projects
  • Partners with the leaderships to advance improvement initiative and opportunities
• Leads the development and implementation of approaches to attain maximum quality and efficiency of service provision
  • Supports continuous quality improvement initiatives during the Define, Measure, Analyze, Implement, Control (DMAIC) phase
  • Monitors and reports on departmental regulatory compliance
  • Monitors and reports upon departmental productivity (statistics) and works with management team to strategize means to maximize output. Develops tools /metrics necessary to adequately assess departmental performance
  • Incorporates results of compliance audits in the improvement of services and enhancement of patient care consistent with hospital policy
• Quality of care and Service Management
  • Develops and maintains a quality management system which allows for consistent evaluation and improvement of services and products in relation to physicians and patient care requirements. Documents all significant activities and takes corrective action as necessary
  • Attends Clinical Care Evaluation Committee (CCEC)
  • Designs and implements clinical protocols and quality improvements
  • Develops systems for improvement of the department’s services provided in relation to physician and patient care requirements
  • Ensures Quality Dashboards are achieved
  • Involved in patient care issue follow-up
  • Incorporates results of QM audits in the improvement of services and enhancement of patient care consistent with hospital policy.

Basic Core Skills

• Customer Focus:
  • Clearly identifies the internal and external customer(s) for their unit or service area and their respective requirements/expectations.
  • Actively seeks methods of concurrent and retrospective feedback from customers, listens to customer feedback and implements solutions and/or interventions as appropriate.
• Creative Leadership:
  • Translates organizational vision into a unit or service area vision that engages staff in contributing to and achieving that vision.
• Coaching and Development:
  • Provides daily, just-in-time feedback to improve performance and the self-esteem of staff.
  • Tracks coaching discussions and actual performance of associates to ensure accountability.
  • Seeks ways to match staff members’ talents and career interests with organizational opportunities.
• Continuous Learning:
  • Continually examines ways to improve business relationships with customers, suppliers, community, etc.
  • Seeks and is open to new ideas from a wide range of sources; encourages others to share knowledge and best practices.

Additional Key Functions

• Ensures compliance with applicable federal, state, local, AABB, FDA, OHSA, TJC, CAP, CLIA, multi-disciplinary, hospital regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Participates in planning and maintenance of the laboratory information system (LIS).
• Strategic planning/goal setting for department, including the implementation of new technologies and services.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree

Experience

• Laboratory experience with demonstrated progressive level of responsibility

Behavioral Attributes

• Demonstrates personal alignment with NMH’s core values of integrity, excellence, patients first, and teamwork.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to plan, organize, and direct the activities of others.

Preferred

• Master’s degree preferred
• Certification in area of specialty or administration
• Laboratory certification (ASCP) preferred

Equal Opportunity

Northwestern Medicine is an equal opportunity employer (disability, VETS) and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.

Background Check

Northwestern Medicine conducts a background check that includes criminal history on newly hired team members and, at times, internal transfers. If you are offered a position with us, you will be required to complete an authorization and disclosure form that gives Northwestern Medicine permission to run the background check. Results are evaluated on a case‑by‑case basis, and we follow all local, state, and federal laws, including the Illinois Health Care Worker Background Check Act.

Artificial Intelligence Disclosure

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical, emotional, and financial well-being while providing protection for unexpected life events. Please visit our Benefits section to learn more.

Sign-on Bonus Eligibility (if sign-on bonus offered for position)

Internal employees and rehires who left Northwestern Medicine within 1 year are not eligible for the sign on bonus. Exception: New graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed clinical position at NM may be eligible depending upon the job family.