Senior Strategic Implementation Partner
Lehigh Valley Health Network
Summary
Collaborates with internal and external business partners to improve healthcare value and enable the achievement of the mission, vision, strategies, network goals, and strategic business objectives. Improves the colleague and patient experiences and serves as an innovative, strategic partner and supports the key stakeholders through robust project management skills. Co-creates, executes, evaluates, and adjusts short and long-term team and divisional goals, strategies, and vision. Cultivates a strengths-based culture of continuous learning, continuous improvement, and delivery of highly reliable, measurable results.
Job description
Summary
Collaborates with internal and external business partners to improve healthcare value and enable the achievement of the mission, vision, strategies, network goals, and strategic business objectives. Improves the colleague and patient experiences and serves as an innovative, strategic partner and supports the key stakeholders through robust project management skills. Co-creates, executes, evaluates, and adjusts short and long-term team and divisional goals, strategies, and vision. Cultivates a strengths-based culture of continuous learning, continuous improvement, and delivery of highly reliable, measurable results.
Job Duties
- Designs, plans, delivers, evaluates, and continually supports project management needs on strategic network initiatives to drive healthcare value and achieve enterprise goals.
- Utilizes the portfolio management system and supports the enterprise-wide intake and pipeline development of potential improvement projects. Leverages technical skill sets to bridge the needs of key stakeholders.
- Assesses variation, complex organizational performance gaps and strategic expense reduction and revenue growth opportunities. Performs root cause and gap analysis based on current state data. Defines and forecasts based on trend data.
- Collaborates with clients and business partners to share status, results, and feedback on projects. Builds and maintains a professional peer network and membership in relevant professional organizations.
- Leads and balances multiple senior level projects while also mentoring junior team members.
- Recommends and executes aligned, short and long-term departmental and divisional goals, strategies, and vision. Cultivates a strengths-based culture of continuous learning, continuous improvement, and delivery of highly reliable, measurable results.
- Facilitate team meetings, identify key actions and follow up items, liaison etc. ensuring accuracy and accessibility to all project related documents. Identify and escalate barriers and risks.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business administration, healthcare management, project management or closely related field.
- 5 years progressive experience in project management or completion of a healthcare administrative fellowship program.
- Ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and situations.
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple complex tasks and projects in a fast paced work environment.
- Ability to focus on details and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
- Must possess team building skills and emotional and social intelligence.
- Must collaborate and possess resilience, managerial courage, flexibility, ethics, and professionalism.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in business administration, healthcare administration or other related degree.
- 10 years progressive experience in project management.
- CSSBB - Certified Six Sigma Black Belt - American Society for Quality Upon Hire
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business administration, healthcare management, project management or closely related field
- 5 years progressive experience in project management or completion of a healthcare administrative fellowship program
- Ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and situations
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple complex tasks and projects in a fast paced work environment
- Ability to focus on details and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
- Team building skills and emotional and social intelligence
- Collaboration, resilience, managerial courage, flexibility, ethics, and professionalism
- Master's Degree in business administration, healthcare administration or other related degree (preferred)
- 10 years progressive experience in project management (preferred)
- CSSBB - Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (preferred)
Company overview
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a major healthcare provider and hospital network based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, serving the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania regions. Founded in 1899, LVHN operates as a comprehensive healthcare system with 13 hospital campuses, 28 health centers, numerous primary and specialty care physician practices, and multiple urgent care locations. The network's flagship facility, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, is Pennsylvania's third-largest hospital and features the state's first Level One Trauma Center. LVHN provides a wide range of medical services including specialized institutes for cancer care, heart and vascular treatment, surgical excellence, orthopedics, and neuroscience. The network operates the third-largest heart surgery program in Pennsylvania, performing over 1,200 open-heart procedures annually, and maintains one of the state's largest cancer centers treating over 2,400 new patients each year. In August 2024, LVHN completed a merger with Jefferson Health, becoming part of a larger healthcare system with 32 hospitals and over 700 locations across Pennsylvania. Prior to the merger, LVHN was the largest employer in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan region, with approximately 20,000 employees dedicated to providing comprehensive healthcare services to the community.