Manager, Informatics

Fraser Health•Surrey, BC

About The Position

Fraser Health is seeking a strategic, relationship driven leader to join the Digital Enablement – Clinical Ancillary Services and Business Relationship Management (BRM) portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of clinical care, digital enablement, and system transformation, playing a critical role in how technology supports frontline care delivery. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead high impact teams, shape how work is coordinated across portfolio boundaries, and partner closely with clinical leaders to ensure digital and technical capabilities are intentionally aligned with care delivery needs. This is a role for a leader who embraces complexity, values partnership, and is motivated by meaningful, systemwide impact. As Manager, Clinical Ancillary and BRM, you will lead four tightly connected portfolios: Advance / Medical Device Integration (MDI), Clinical Ancillary Portfolio Enablement (CAPE), Business Relationship Management (BRM), and Clinical Ancillary Capital Redevelopment. These portfolios provide the foundational infrastructure, enablement, and relationship management that allow clinical portfolio teams to succeed. Their work directly supports acute care operations, clinical system integrations, capital redevelopment initiatives, and organization wide digital transformation efforts. A defining aspect of this role is the strong, intentional partnership with the Manager, Clinical Ancillary, who leads the clinical portfolio teams. Many of the portfolios under this role exist to enable, support, and amplify the clinical portfolios within Clinical Ancillary Services. Success is therefore highly dependent on shared leadership, alignment of priorities, and coordinated decision making across the two Manager roles. Together, these roles function as complementary leadership counterparts, providing integrated oversight across the full portfolio lifecycle - from clinical strategy and intake, through technical enablement, delivery, and sustainment. In practice, this partnership involves joint planning, prioritization, and sequencing of work where portfolio dependencies exist; close alignment on capacity planning, risk management, and escalation pathways; presenting a unified leadership approach to clinical partners and senior leadership; and ensuring technical and enablement work is intentionally designed to meet clinical delivery needs. This is not a parallel or siloed role - it is deeply collaborative by design. BC’s health system is in the process of transformation. As part of the planned changes, certain IM/IT, Finance, and Supply Chain roles are expected to be in scope for transition to a new provincial shared services organization, BC Shared Health Services. Candidates applying to positions in these areas should be aware that, while the role is currently employed by the Health Authority, it may transition to BC Shared Health Services as part of the first or subsequent implementation phases. The intent of this transition is to support continuity of employment however, details regarding timing, process, and any impacts to employment arrangements will be confirmed as planning progresses. Providing this information at the recruitment stage is intended to ensure transparency about the broader system changes underway and to support informed decision-making by candidates.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Health Information Management or a related field plus seven (7) years management experience in a medium to large sized organization working with computerized health information systems, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Experience with acute care electronic health information systems.
Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.
Demonstrated knowledge of health and corporate information systems.
Demonstrated ability to lead, manage, plan, and implement within the area of responsibility.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a highly dynamic environment.
Demonstrated ability to be effective in an environment subject to continuous change.
Working knowledge of applicable regulations, legislation, and collective agreements.
Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
Proficiency in the use of personal computers

Responsibilities

Provides leadership in the development of health and corporate information systems and applications including identifying opportunities to move to electronic information capture and distribution, maintaining a multi-departmental authority-wide view of systems to support the adoption of health and corporate information systems.
Plans and manages the support of the evolution and adoption of health and clinical/corporate information systems projects and leads strategies to reduce dependence on paper-based personal health and corporate records.
Develops and maintains the processes necessary to facilitate care provider and employee access to electronic health and corporate information systems, applications and tools.
Works collaboratively as a member of the Informatics leadership team by functioning as part of a coordinated effort to move forward the health and clinical/corporate information management agenda of FH and by promoting and adopting best practice models for service delivery.
Works with business process leaders in financial, corporate, and clinical areas to identify current workflow processes and opportunities for improvement through the effective use of information systems and technologies.
Identifies innovative approaches for information capture, storage, and retrieval and ensures that standards related to the management of personal health, employee or corporate information are maintained and enhanced.
Accountable for project priorities for the health authority and ensures that projects are executed in accordance with FH project management standards and that necessary project resources are in place to ensure successful implementation, in collaboration with assigned business areas.
Ensures the ongoing management/maintenance of negotiated vendor contracts. Negotiates contracts with vendors, ensures payment schedule is distributed, and vendor is upholding contract provisions.
Manages assigned staff by selecting employees, directing, supervising, and evaluating staff to ensure effective performance of duties, promoting, disciplining and initiating employee terminations.
Ensures the implementation of correct human resource standards and procedures, including performance evaluation, education, and orientation as well as compliance with applicable acts, regulations and collective agreements.
Interprets and administers collective agreements, if applicable, covering all bargaining unit employees. Investigates and responds to grievances of a confidential nature. Represents management up to and including Step 3 of the grievance process. Attends Third Party Hearings with the representative of the Employer.
Manages multiple department project budgets under the direction of the Director, by performing activities such as approving and tracking expenditures, identifying budget discrepancies, allocating funds across the areas of responsibility, and providing input into budget development.
Prepares or provides statistical information on workload measurement, department activity, quality assurance and clinical use on a scheduled or requested basis.
Participates on assigned internal and external committees, represents Fraser Health as a decision maker on external opportunities to achieve desired outcomes.