Value Improvement Specialist (On-Site)

UCLA Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Health seeks a transformative leader to drive performance improvement across its health system. You will collaborate with clinical and operational teams to deliver Lean-based initiatives, develop teams, and sustain change, advancing patient experiences and care quality.

Requires strong background in hospital management, process improvement, and data analysis, with excellent communication and leadership skills to influence diverse stakeholders across UCLA Health.

Qualifications

• Related Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree in business, nursing, or healthcare administration preferred.
• One to two years in hospital management or hospital consulting.
• Proven track record in operations, process improvement and PM.
• Lean/Six Sigma methodology understood.
• Knowledge of health care delivery elements.
• Project management and data analysis expertise.
• Ability to drive change under dynamic conditions.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to influence others and promote change.
• Creative thinking and imaginative problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality and performance improvement efforts using Lean methods.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational teams across UCLA Health.
• Assess problems, collect metrics, and facilitate improvement projects.
• Develop improvement teams and sustain change initiatives.
• Facilitate projects and meet deadlines for MOVERS/ValU initiative.

Skills

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Hospital management experience

Operations improvement

Lean/Six Sigma

Project management

Data analysis

Change leadership

Communication skills

Influencing others

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in healthcare admin or related field

Job description

Onsite or Remote

Fully On-Site

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Posted Date

08/10/2026

Salary Range: $100161.36 - 218718 Annually

Employment Type

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

32323

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Take on a key role within a world-class, award-winning health system. Deliver strategic direction that enables excellent patient experiences. Take your professional expertise to the next level. UCan do all this and more at UCLA Health.

In this high-profile position, you will work alongside other members of the ValU Care Redesign team, as well as clinical and operational teams to help drive quality and performance improvement efforts for UCLA Health while supporting the MOVERS/ValU initiative. You will assess problems, compile/analyze data, develop improvement teams, collect metrics and facilitate improvement efforts. You will use Lean and other related methodologies to support process and quality improvement and facilitate and sustain change. You will also independently facilitate projects and meet deadlines according to the needs of the project team.

UCLA Health salary range for this title code is $100,161 - $218,718/annually. Please note that the department's target pay range is $115,000 - $155,000/annually.

Job Qualifications

We're seeking a self-motivated, results-driven, customer-focused leader with:

• Related Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience
• Master's degree in business, nursing, or healthcare administration preferred
• One to two years of experience in hospital management or hospital consulting
• Proven track record in operations, process improvement, and project management
• Understanding of Lean/Six Sigma methodology
• Knowledge of all elements of health care delivery
• Expertise in project management and data analysis
• Ability to effectively respond to elements that drive competitive advantage under dynamic conditions
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, management, and leadership skills
• Ability to influence others and promote change
• Ability to generate and encourages creative ideas, innovative thinking, and imaginative solutions to issues or problems
• Understanding of the approaches and methods of process improvement

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer. Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.