Program Manager - Central Radiology

Northwestern Medicine; Winfield (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Medicine is seeking a Program Manager to lead planning and implementation for department initiatives. You will develop work plans, metrics, and resource allocation while coordinating internal and external teams to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

Responsibilities include budgeting, status reporting, and stakeholder communications. Collaboration with managers, directors, and clinicians will drive strategic goals and improve departmental outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Management, Communications or related field.
• Five (5) to eight (8) years’ experience in a relevant role.
• Strong Knowledge of Microsoft: Word, Excel, Power Point, Project.
• Demonstrated project management and organizational skills, demonstrated analysis and problem solving skills, excellent oral and communication skills, demonstrated ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with peers and constituents at all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage budgets, resource allocation, information distribution, meeting facilitation and overall performance reporting.
• Apply standard project management methodologies throughout the project lifecycle including analysis, design, implementation, verification and value measurement definition.
• Utilize project management tools to ensure accuracy for planning, procurement and budgeting.
• Participate in analyst activities such as requirements analysis, resource identification, solution definition, white paper development, implementation/work plan development, design, system testing, training plans and rollout strategies.
• Manage day to day operational aspects of a project and scope and effectively minimizes exposure and risk.
• Prepare and reviews deliverables for leadership approval. Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Establish and maintain effective communications regarding project status and exchange of information among team members, sponsors and vendor partners.
• Work within project budget to ensure expenditures align with financial plans.
• Provide leadership to define, plan and implement projects.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with clients and team members, and mitigate issues as needed to achieve results.
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Organizational skills

Relationship management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/MHA preferred

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Project

Job description

Description

The Program Manager reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, 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.

The Program Manager will lead planning and implementation activities for Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. This will include developing work plans and metrics, the monitoring of work plans and metrics to assure activities are on-time and on-budget, coordinating the internal and external resources to execute activities, and completing activities as assigned. The Program Manager will work closely with managers, directors and clinicians to develop work plans, metrics and resources to achieve the department’s strategic goals and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing and managing the following for assigned projects: budgets, resource allocation, information distribution, meeting facilitation and overall performance reporting.
• Apply standard project management methodologies throughout the project lifecycle including analysis, design, implementation, verification as well as value measurement definition.
• Utilize project management tools to ensure accuracy for planning, procurement and budgeting.
• Participate in analyst activities such as requirements analysis, resource identification, solution definition, white paper development, implementation/work plan development, design, system testing, training plans and rollout strategies.
• Manage day to day operational aspects of a project and scope and effectively minimizes exposure and risk.
• Prepare and reviews deliverables for leadership approval. Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Establish and execute effective and efficient communication mechanisms which enable continuous exchange of project status, ideas and information, project developments among team members, NM Executives (project sponsors) and vendor partners.
• Establish and maintain effective communications regarding project status.
• Work within project budget to ensure that expenditures are integrated with the NMHC Long Term Financial Plan and Annual Capital Budget.
• Provides leadership and guidance required to effectively define, plan and implement projects.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining productive and cordial relationships with clients and team members, serving as a link between multiple parties and entities. Must be able to effectively manage problems that arise within the project team or issues with clients, and recommend mitigation strategies as needed to achieve the desired results.
• Create and execute project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Management, Communications or related field.
• Five (5) to eight (8) years’ experience in a relevant role.
• Strong Knowledge of Microsoft: Word, Excel, Power Point, Project.
• Demonstrated project management and organizational skills, demonstrated analysis and problem solving skills, excellent oral and communication skills, demonstrated ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with peers and constituents at all levels of the organization.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in MBA or MHA preferred; required in place of work experience.

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.

If sign-on bonus is included in a job posting eligibility is as followed: 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 as a Registered Nurse at NM may be eligible.