Join the innovative team at the UPMC Department of Ophthalmology at the UPMC Mercy Pavilion, located at 1622 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, where world-class clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals work together to advance vision care and improve patient outcomes. The Department of Ophthalmology is hiring a Project Manager to support its team. This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing projects that support departmental goals, clinical operations, research initiatives, and strategic objectives. The Project Manager will collaborate with physicians, administrators, and multidisciplinary teams to oversee project timelines, monitor progress, ensure stakeholder communication, and drive successful project outcomes. The ideal candidate is highly organized, adaptable, and skilled at managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced healthcare environment. Hours will vary based on mission needs.
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.
- Minimum of four years of related work experience.
- Master's degree preferred.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.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran