Project Manager Jobs

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Provides consultative, technical and decision-making support to executive management regarding financial and/or operational improvements and system growth initiatives.
a. Prepares, delivers and maintains appropriate documentation and deliverables for projects.
b. Ensures analysis and presentation documents are completed on schedule for various meetings throughout the project’s cycle.
c. Integrates and interprets internal and external data.
d. Facilitates strategic planning, process improvement, proforma development and operational decision-making.
e. Works with executive and middle management to reach consensus on appropriate next steps and action plans.
f. Develops and presents summary recommendations that focus on key findings from analysis and action plans as a result of decision-making process.
g. Organizes work and structures analyses to facilitate decision making.
2. Oversees projects and work plans and other essential functions to complete key projects and achieve key operational metrics for the health system.
a. Oversight in key areas will include baseline assessments, on-going data collection/reporting, benchmark research, project timelines, quarterly targets/goals, communication strategies and technical resource for activities related to a clear set of priority initiatives developed by senior management of Piedmont.
b. Understands baseline assumptions.
c. Researches and applies best practice, benchmarks, and performance standards.
d. Monitors internal productivity, financial, and statistical measurements to determine potential opportunities.
e. Presents findings and executive summaries to stakeholders and/or incorporates information into broader improvement efforts and action plans.
f. Ensures effective communication and involvement of all key stakeholders on each project.
3. Provides project management, on-going support, follow-up analysis and implementation support for corporate projects with widely varying scope.
a. Develops project plans, manages resource demands, and defines roles and responsibilities of key project participants.
b. Develops budgets.
c. Facilitates meetings, advises and coaches team leaders.
d. Balances schedules, scope and resources and modifies and re-negotiates with sponsors as necessary to meet goals.
e. Effectively utilizes and contributes to the ongoing refinement of the project management methodology.
f. Integrates implementation planning with project management to insure a successful implementation, and develops and maintains project deliverables and documentation to best meet the needs of the project and System.
g. Monitors activity on projects and facilitates progress as necessary to meet timelines.
h. Monitors and documents performance and financial improvement from projects.
i. Engages staff resources appropriately maximizing use of their time and expertise, and applies project approaches that most effectively utilize organizational resources while achieving desired outcomes.
4. Presents and communicates in a professional and effective manner.
a. Discerns what information should be treated as confidential.
b. Presents complex issues with simplicity in written and oral presentations, making the information easy to understand for all audiences.
c. Communicates well with all levels of management and staff, as well as physicians.
d. Prepares all deliverables in a clearly written, well-organized, high quality manner.
e. Communicates articulately and concisely in both written and verbal communications.
f. Presents results effectively representing the problems and issues resolved.
g. Utilizes personal power and influence skills appropriately to impact results.
h. Initiates problem resolution and conflict management throughout the project life cycle.
5. Leverages complex decision support systems such as productivity systems, financial, clinical and/or market databases other internal comparative databases to assist executive management in establishing annual operational targets, monitoring on-going operational and financial performance and evaluating opportunities for improvement or investment.
a. Provides data interpretation, data analysis, summarization and reporting of results to ensure timely and easy access to available data throughout PHC.
b. Uses aggregate and comparative data to identify opportunities for improvement.
c. Trains internal constituents and management to utilize data and tools.
d. Performs quality assessment audits to ensure data integrity.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Skill and ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in-writing.
• Skill and ability in Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to work as a member of a team.
• Skill and ability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines.

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Piedmont is a certified Great Place to Work™- a national designation based on employee feedback about trust, workplace culture and experience. In 2019, Forbes named Piedmont one of Georgia’s 10 best employers and the highest-ranked healthcare provider.