Join our team of Life Changers!
UPMC is hiring a full-time Project Manager to support the Orthopedics team/office in Pittsburgh.
Join a collaborative Orthopedics team that offers opportunities for professional growth, flexibility, and hands-on mentorship. This position provides exposure to a variety of orthopedic practices, allowing you to build your knowledge and experience across the service line. Leadership takes a mentorship-focused approach and is committed to helping team members learn, develop, and grow in their roles.
Shift/Hours: This position works Monday through Friday with flexible daylight hours and no weekends, holidays, or on-call requirements.
Work Arrangement: This position offers a hybrid work arrangement. Training and orientation will be completed on-site to ensure a strong foundation for success. Following successful completion of training and based on demonstrated performance, team members may be eligible for a hybrid schedule of approximately three days on-site and two days working from home per week. The specific on-site and remote schedule may vary from week to week based on departmental needs and individual performance.
Travel: The role will primarily support Passavant and St. Margaret, with occasional coverage at Shadyside and other local hospitals as needed.
Opportunities for growth, excellent benefits, a pleasant work environment, and friendly team are just a few of our perks.
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Purpose:
Provide leadership, direction, and accountability for project management initiatives across operations and the broader organization. Partner with key stakeholders to define project objectives, establish measurable outcomes, and develop and maintain comprehensive project plans to support successful execution and progress toward organizational goals.
Responsibilities:
- Identify trends and process improvement opportunities across departments within operations.
- Perform cost/benefit analysis
- Develop and implement key metrics to measure and report on progress of initiatives.
- Work with other managers to achieve efficiencies across integration of projects.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, this includes utilizing standard project documentation and methodology and project tracking and reporting procedures.
- Develop cross-functional, change management and implementation strategies; ensure that all of the participating parties have committed to effective implementation of the processes and procedures.
- Assist team members in resolving project problems, escalates issues when necessary, and facilities decision-making.
- Assure quality of information through business case and application-level testing; validate test results to initial business needs.
- Provide concise and timely status reporting as required
- Monitor operating performance against regional and national benchmarks.
- Assist with achieving Operations division strategic goals as well as system strategic goals.
- Bachelor's degree in business, mathematics, statistics, health care, management, or related business field required.
- Master's degree preferred
- Minimum of four years of related work experience.
- Experience in health care insurance or health care industry preferred.
- Excellent computer skills required, including Access, Excel, Microsoft Project, and other pertinent computer software packages.
- Strong management, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills (oral and written) are required.
- Excellent Project Management skills along with effective planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to perform planning for large initiatives/projects, managing all tasks required to providing services to meet client and business needs within budget and targeted deadlines.
- Prior healthcare experience highly preferred.
- Prior computer skills/data platforms experience highly preferred.
- Prior management experience is preferred.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran