Project Management Director

The Project Management Director role directs and oversees teams within a project management function to ensure projects are implemented according to expectations and to achieve benefits realization.

The role leads and participates in defining project management best practices, professional standards, tools, and processes and is accountable for their teams’ alignment to defined best practices.

Essential Functions

• Leads teams and provides human resource and supervisory oversight to managers and program or project managers.
• Leads and participates in the oversight of project governance and prioritization, assigning resources according to demand-and-capacity constraints.
• Responsible for planning and setting the strategic direction of the department in conjunction with input from stakeholders, the AVP Project Management and other necessary participants.
• Monitors and reports summarized data describing project health across the enterprise.
• Builds a winning culture with a repeatable, process-based approach that recognizes the interdependence of all key stakeholders in the solutions delivery process.
• Leads teams to complete complex projects and programs on-time and within budget.
• Creates and maintains staffing plans to support the current and future work demands and project deliverables.
• Leads and participates in the definition of and compliance with the overall Intermountain Project Management quality standards and best practices.
• Ensures proper monitoring and reporting of project deliverables and outcomes.
• Responsible for directing the work of employees, including staffing, goal setting, coaching, and mentoring, employee recognition, engagement and training, recruitment, and performance management.
• Regularly communicates with staff through huddles, team meetings, individual one on one meetings, rounding, and skip level interviews.
• Manages customer, stakeholder, and vendor relationships and expectations.
• Validates financial forecasts and expected benefits across projects and programs within portfolio – reconciles resources and other project expenses and tracks actual value to expected results.
• Assists in annual budget process.

Skills

• Leadership
• Strategic planning
• Communication
• People management
• Stakeholder analysis and management
• Business acumen
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Deliverables management
• Human Resources
• Continual process improvement
• Change management

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years supervisory experience with direct reports is required.
• 7+ years demonstrated supervisory leadership experience including coaching, training, and change management is required.
• Proven experience planning and implementing strategic goals is required.
• Proven success building and managing strong teams across a portfolio of complex projects and programs, leading caregivers, and teams inside and outside of span of control is required.
• Expertise in stakeholder identification/management, engagement with operational and strategic elements of the enterprise, customer service, leading through influence, problem resolution, communication, and negotiation is required.
• Proven success in program and project management disciplines with demonstrated ability to complete projects with on-time results and benefit realization is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in program and project management disciplines with demonstrated ability to successfully complete projects with on-time delivery and benefit realization is preferred.
• Expert Level Certified Program or Project Management designation is preferred.
• Proven prior experience in Merger and Acquisition integration project management is preferred.
• Advanced degree in a field such as business administration, information technology, construction management, or healthcare is preferred.
• Prior experience working in an integrated healthcare delivery organization is preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in organizational and cultural change management is preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for the employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require the employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy.

Benefits

• Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan
• Generous benefits package