Sr Director - Labor Management & Benchmarking

methodisthealth; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis seeks a Senior Director of Labor Management & Benchmarking and Productivity to drive workforce productivity, benchmarking, and optimal staffing across Academic Medical Centers, pediatric hospitals, and community facilities.

You will own corporate strategy, data governance, and execution for productivity standards, leveraging Premier benchmarking, UKG for core workforce productivity, and leading the implementation of the WFM Playbook to standardize

Responsibilities

• Productivity Strategy & Operational Standardization - Define the health system strategy for workforce productivity, capacity planning, and operational efficiency across specialized clinical environments.
• Lead deployment of the corporate WFM Playbook to ensure unified, standard staffing and scheduling practices across Academic, Pediatric, and Community hospital divisions.
• Maximize operational efficiency by designing dynamic, demand-driven staffing models that account for nursing acuity, teaching-hospital workflows, resident schedules, and community care dynamics.
• Leverage UKG modules to optimize daily labor allocations and ensure strict schedule compliance across specialized units (e.g., PICU, NICU, trauma, and community medical-surgical wards).
• Partner with finance and clinical operations leaders to eliminate structural waste, manage agency utilization, and reduce labor friction.

Job description

If you are looking to make an impact on a meaningful scale, come join us as we embrace the Power of One!

We strive to be an employer of choice and establish a reputation for being a talent rich organization where Associates can grow their career caring for others. For over a century, we've served the health care needs of the people of Memphis and the Mid-South.

The Senior Director of Labor Management & Benchmarking and Productivity drives organizational efficiency, labor optimization, and workforce engineering across a complex health system encompassing Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), high-acuity Pediatric Hospitals, and Community Hospitals. This leader aligns diverse clinical staffing models with varied patient care demands through advanced benchmarking and operational metrics. You will own the corporate strategy, data governance, and execution for productivity standards across the entire enterprise, directly leveraging Premier for competitive benchmarking, UKG for core workforce productivity, and driving the implementation of the corporate WFM Playbook to standardize practices system-wide. Models appropriate behavior as exemplified in MLH Mission, Vision and Values.

A Brief Overview

The Senior Director of Labor Management & Benchmarking and Productivity drives organizational efficiency, labor optimization, and workforce engineering across a complex health system encompassing Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), high-acuity Pediatric Hospitals, and Community Hospitals. This leader aligns diverse clinical staffing models with varied patient care demands through advanced benchmarking and operational metrics. You will own the corporate strategy, data governance, and execution for productivity standards across the entire enterprise, directly leveraging Premier for competitive benchmarking, UKG for core workforce productivity, and driving the implementation of the corporate WFM Playbook to standardize practices system-wide. Models appropriate behavior as exemplified in MLH Mission, Vision and Values.

What you will do

• Productivity Strategy & Operational Standardization - Define the health system strategy for workforce productivity, capacity planning, and operational efficiency across specialized clinical environments. - Lead the deployment, governance, and updates of the corporate WFM Playbook to ensure unified, standard staffing and scheduling practices across Academic, Pediatric, and Community hospital divisions. - Maximize operational efficiency by designing dynamic, demand-driven staffing models that account for nursing acuity, teaching-hospital workflows, resident schedules, and community care dynamics. - Leverage UKG modules to optimize daily labor allocations and ensure strict schedule compliance across specialized units (e.g., PICU, NICU, trauma, and community medical-surgical wards). - Partner with finance and clinical operations leaders to eliminate structural waste, manage agency utilization, and reduce labor friction.


• WFM Education & Onboarding Leadership - Design, build, and deploy an ongoing WFM education curriculum for existing health system leaders to maintain high operational and productivity literacy. - Standardize and deliver dedicated WFM training pathways for all new clinical and operational leaders as they are onboarded into the organization. - Ensure all leadership cohorts understand, adopt, and execute against WFM Playbook guidelines, Premier data inputs, and UKG scheduling tools. - Establish metrics to measure the adoption rate and proficiency of clinical leaders utilizing the organization’s workforce management resources.


• Advanced Benchmarking & Analytics - Own the corporate relationship, data architecture, and validation pipelines for the Premier benchmarking platform. - Map health system operational and financial data to external peer groups-specifically targeting Academic Medical Center (AMC), Children's Hospital, and Community Hospital cohorts-using Premier metrics to identify performance gaps. - Build predictive financial analytics models to forecast productivity trends and surface clinical labor cost-saving opportunities. - Convert complex labor data, position control metrics, and variance reports into clear, actionable financial and operational insights. - Present key productivity and Premier benchmarking metrics regularly to the VP, Finance Operations.


• WFM Technology & Governance - Govern enterprise-wide engineered labor standards and scheduling compliance within the UKG platform. - Direct system-wide audits of scheduling efficacy to balance labor cost with patient safety and service delivery standards. - Lead data integration, optimization, and continuous improvement for both Premier and UKG tools. - Manage technology vendors to maintain software s