Senior Operations Integration Specialist
Northbay Health
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Job summary
NorthBay Health seeks a Senior Operations Integration Specialist to lead enterprise integration initiatives, including planning, execution, and risk management for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage day-one readiness, and track value realization.
The role requires strong program management credentials, PMP preferred, and experience with TSA/APA frameworks, with a focus on stakeholder communication and executive reporting in a
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- MBA or related field preferred.
- Certification in Project Management (PMP) highly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain workstream integration plans across all assigned workstreams with milestones, dependencies, ownership, escalations, communication, and timelines.
- Own integration critical path with Day-One readiness and pre-close requirements.
- Identify, map, and manage cross-workstream interdependencies and risks.
- Establish and maintain engagement cadence with workstream leaders; capture decisions, risks, and actions with precision.
- Deliver integration status reporting to multiple audiences, including executive summaries for steering committees.
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Job description
This is an on-site position.
At Northbay Health, the Senior Operations Integration Specialist is responsible for project management, coordination, and execution oversight of enterprise integration initiatives, typically in support of mergers, acquisitions, or strategic partnerships. This role supports integration planning, drives cross-functional alignment, manages risk, and ensures delivery against Day-One readiness and long-term value realization objectives.
- Develop and maintain the workstream integration plans across all assigned workstreams, including scope definition, milestones, dependencies, ownership, escalations, communication, and timelines.
- Partner with functional leaders to build detailed workstream plans, translating integration strategy and TSA/APA requirements into executable deliverables.
- Own and continuously manage the integration critical path, with emphasis on Day-One readiness sequencing and pre-close decision requirements.
- Identify, map, and actively manage cross-workstream interdependencies, proactively addressing sequencing conflicts, risks, and resource constraints.
- Maintain and evolve the integration risk register as a dynamic tool, ensuring risks are clearly documented, owned, mitigated, and tracked.
- Apply structured, analytical thinking to assess risk severity and business impact, establishing appropriate escalation thresholds.
- Surface material risks and issues to integration leadership with clear context, implications, and recommended actions.
- Identify and map workstream interdependencies, surfacing conflicts, sequencing risks, and resource constraints before they become execution problems
- Identify prioritization conflicts and provide data-driven recommendations to enable timely executive decision-making.
- Establish and maintain a consistent engagement cadence with fellow workstream leaders to ensure plan accuracy, issue visibility, and forward momentum.
- Participate in integration governance forums and workstream meetings, capturing decisions, risks, and action items with precision.
- Own the workstream integration action log, ensuring accountability and closure of all open items.
- Develop and deliver integration status reporting tailored to multiple audiences, including detailed operational updates and executive-level summaries for steering committees (ESC).
- Communicate changes to timelines, milestones, and dependencies with clarity, articulating the impact on the integration plan and critical path.
- Track integration milestones tied to value realization objectives, ensuring alignment with acquisition rationale and executive expectations.
- Monitor workstream execution for alignment to strategic intent, identifying and escalating deviations with recommended corrective actions.
- Contribute to the organization’s integration playbook, documenting processes, lessons learned, and best practices to improve future integration efforts.
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Master’s degree (MBA or related field) preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Master’s degree (MBA or related field) preferred.
- Certification in Project Management (PMP) highly preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience program management, project management, management consulting, corporate strategy, or M&A integration.
- Project Management Professional
- Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional programs, preferably in healthcare or similarly regulated environments.
- Experience with post-merger integration, TSA management, or large-scale transformation initiatives preferred.
- Advanced program and project management capabilities (e.g., critical path management, dependency mapping, risk frameworks).
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect operational execution to strategic value drivers.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influence skills across executive and operational levels.
- Highly structured thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with competing priorities.
- Demonstrates the True North values. The True North values are a set of value-based behaviors that are to be consistently demonstrated and role modeled by all employees that work at NorthBay Health. The True North values principles consist of Nurture/Care, Own It, Respect Relationships, Build Trust and Hardwire Excellence.
- ManagementExempt.
- Requires travel and flexible schedule, including some weekend and evening work.
Interpersonal Skills and Values: Demonstrates NorthBay Health’s True North Values: Nurture Care, Own It, Respect Relationships, Build Trust, and Hardwire Excellence. These values guide behavior, accountability, teamwork, and commitment to high-quality patient care.
NorthBay Health is an independent, nonprofit health system serving the Napa, Solano, and Yolo County regions. We are expanding access to care across our communities through two acute-care hospitals, including a Level II Trauma Center and a Level III NICU maternity unit, along with a cancer center, urgent care locations, and a growing network of primary and specialty care clinics.
We provide advanced services in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, orthopedics, surgery, and outpatient specialties. NorthBay Health is nationally recognized for quality care, including Magnet with Distinction designation for nursing and multiple U.S. News and World Report high performing recognitions.
We are committed to being the trusted healthcare partner of choice and offer an environment where employees can grow, contribute meaningfully, and support the health of our communities.
NorthBay Health offers a comprehensive benefits package based on established eligibility requirements. Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life, disability, and long-term care coverage, paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holidays, and bereavement, a 403(b) retirement plan with employer match, education reimbursement for eligible roles, professional development and training programs, Employee Assistance Program, wellness programs, recognition programs, shift differentials, and market-based compensation review and increases subject to approval and organizational performance.
NorthBay Health uses a structured compensation framework. Staff-level positions use a step-based system (Steps 1-5) based on years of directly related experience, with Step 5 representing 20 or more years of experience in the role. Manager level and above positions are paid a fixed annual base salary and are eligible for a variable incentive compensation plan. Physician compensation is structured based on specialty and role requirements.
NorthBay Health is primarily an onsite organization due to the nature of healthcare. Some roles may allow hybrid or remote work based on business needs.
Remote work is not supported in Washington, Ohio, Wyoming, North Dakota, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or outside of the United States.
NorthBay Health utilizes a managed service provider (MSP) for agency partnerships and is not currently engaging external recruiting firms outside of established agreements. We do not accept unsolicited resumes or third-party candidate submissions. Please do not contact NorthBay Health employees, leaders, physicians, or hiring managers regarding recruitment or job postings.
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