Manager, Integration & Improvement Acute Care

Schuylkill•Allentown, PA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Leads the execution of enterprise integration and performance improvement initiatives across Jefferson Health operations. This role serves as an implementation leader and operational partner to enterprise, regional, and local stakeholders, helping translate enterprise strategies into actionable plans, standardized workflows, measurable milestones, and sustainable operational improvements. This position works closely with enterprise business unit leaders, operational leaders, clinical stakeholders, finance, performance excellence, project management, benefit realization teams, and cross-functional partners. This individual leads execution of initiatives and accelerates improvement efforts but does not directly own operational performance goals.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Public Health, Finance, or related field.
5 years in operations, performance improvement, healthcare consulting, project management, integration management, or related fields.
Experience working with enterprise and operational teams to drive improvement initiatives.
Strong understanding of operations and performance improvement methodologies.
Demonstrated ability to lead workplans, coordinate stakeholders, analyze data, and drive implementation.
Operations Expertise: Understanding of operational workflows and performance drivers.
Enterprise Integration: Ability to align initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
Performance Improvement: Experience leading and supporting improvement initiatives and implementation.
Analytical Skills: Ability to review data, identify trends, and support action-oriented recommendations.
Project Management: Strong ability to manage timelines, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
Stakeholder Leadership: Ability to engage leaders, operators, clinicians, and cross-functional partners.
Change Management: Ability to lead adoption of new processes and workflows.
Communication: Strong ability to communicate progress and insights to stakeholders.
Execution Discipline: Demonstrated ability to manage priorities and deliver measurable results.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Nursing, Finance, or related field.
Experience in management consulting, enterprise transformation, or performance improvement.
Experience working across multi-site operations to drive operational and financial performance.
Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, project management, change management, or other formal performance improvement methodologies.
Supplemental experience in revenue cycle, supply chain, finance, or population health.

Responsibilities

Lead execution of enterprise integration and performance improvement initiatives in partnership with operational stakeholders.
Translate enterprise strategies into practical workplans, milestones, workflows, meeting structures, and implementation tools.
Serve as an implementation leader and partner to operational teams, supporting execution and delivery.
Partner with stakeholders to identify implementation barriers, escalate risks, and drive timely resolution.
Support standardization of leading practices while enabling operational adoption across environments. Help standardize leading practices across facilities while supporting operational adoption at the local level.
Lead performance improvement initiatives focused on operational efficiency, capacity, variation, and financial performance.
Conduct and support data review, root cause analysis, workflow mapping, opportunity validation, and initiative prioritization.
Track milestones, key performance indicators, risks, dependencies, decisions, and action items.
Partner with finance and benefit realization teams to support measurement of initiative progress and financial impact.
Prepare clear, concise updates for leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
Build strong working relationships with enterprise leaders, operational stakeholders, clinical teams, finance, performance excellence, project management, and benefit realization teams.
Lead meetings, working sessions, and implementation discussions with cross-functional stakeholders.
Drive alignment between enterprise strategy and execution by clarifying expectations, timelines, roles, and deliverables.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners when initiatives require coordination or validation.
Lead and support change management efforts to promote adoption of new workflows, standard processes, and improvement initiatives.
Engage stakeholders to understand barriers and support practical implementation.
Monitor adoption progress and identify risks to sustainability.
Support development of communication materials, implementation guides, dashboards, and stakeholder updates.
Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and execution discipline.