Strategic Health Systems Project Manager

University of Washington Medical Center; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

UW Medicine is seeking a Health System Project Manager within the Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) in Seattle. The role supports senior leadership by managing high-visibility strategic and operational projects across multiple departments and lines of business.

The successful candidate will oversee a portfolio of complex initiatives, adapt PM approaches, and report milestones, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business administration, health care administration or related field.
• 5–7 years of demonstrated success/results in project management, including having overseen and managed multiple projects.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt project management approach across different project types (operational, strategic, financial/regulatory, School of Medicine).
• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders, employees, and teams to work toward deploying a different future state.
• Strong executive presence, including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort presenting to large and small audiences.
• Proven experience motivating high-performing individuals; creates an inclusive and collaborative team environment.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently; demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities.
• Ability to prioritize, plan, and organize work deliverables; strong written and verbal communication in all settings.
• Builds mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members.
• Proficiency with Smartsheet, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint, with experience presenting to stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous, matrixed, multi-entity health system environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve a common business objective.

Responsibilities

• Provide project management for the development and implementation of key initiatives and enterprise-critical projects across strategic, operational, financial, or School of Medicine portfolios.
• Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business or service lines; interact with leaders and stakeholders to drive completion.
• Interact closely with leaders and work directly with stakeholders across the system to drive successful completion of tactical and strategic initiatives.
• Adapt project management approach to the specific project type assigned.
• Monitor and manage key deliverables of initiatives to ensure consistency with EPMO standards and approaches.
• Build and utilize common EPMO project management tools and standard approaches while managing multiple stakeholder groups.
• Report on project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating clearly to project stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Prioritization & planning

Matrixed environment experience

Independent work

Decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business administration, health care administration or related field

Tools

Smartsheet

Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Job description

UW Medicine is seeking a Health System Project Manager within the Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) in Seattle. The role supports senior leadership by managing high-visibility strategic and operational projects across multiple departments and lines of business.

The successful candidate will oversee a portfolio of complex initiatives, adapt PM approaches, and report milestones, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership.