Portfolio Manager (Fred Hutch / UW Medicine)

University of Washington Medical Center•Seattle, WA

1d•$135,000 - $160,008•Hybrid

About The Position

UW Medicine IT Services (ITS) has an outstanding job opportunity for a Portfolio Manager (Fred Hutch / UW Medicine). This position is 100% FTE – 40 hours per week, Day Shift. UW Medicine ITS is a shared services organization that supports all of UW Medicine. ITS is responsible for the ongoing support and maintenance of the infrastructure and applications which support all these institutions, along with the implementation of new services and applications that are used to support and further the UW Medicine mission. This is a HYBRID work opportunity, with the position being primarily remote but requiring onsite work at Fred Hutch Cancer Center for projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a healthcare-oriented profession, a technology field, a business-related field, or other discipline that demonstrates analytical or communications abilities, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
8+ years of overall experience.
8+ years of experience leading, managing, and coaching technology and/or business professionals in progressively more complicated vendor-packaged system deployment and/or process improvement projects.
Progressive, relevant experience related to IT portfolio, program, and project management. This must include demonstrated experience serving a single service-line.
Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external constituents, while holding all teams accountable for performance.
Demonstrated leadership, diplomatic, and motivational skills including the ability to lead multiple business and technology organizations/business units.
Experience maintaining relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives.
Demonstrated experience effectively working with multiple, diverse stakeholders in a complex project environment within a cross-functional matrix environment. Experience gaining buy-in from executives, sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers.
Proven ability to make independent administrative/procedural decisions and provide guidance and leadership to staff.
Demonstrated experience managing project work and/or work of others within an established standard project lifecycle framework and cognizant of budgetary and resource constraints.
Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated written and oral communication skills with technical staff, non-technical staff, and all levels of management.
Strong experience in Project Methodologies (e.g., Agile, SCRUM, SDLC/Waterfall).
Strong experience with Organization Change Management (e.g., PROSCI, Kotter, McKinsey, etc.).
Prior experience in a role with significant customer service component.
Experience negotiating vendor contracts and holding vendors accountable to SOWs.
Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.
Experience researching best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and using continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.
Technically competent with various software programs including MS Office tools (e.g., Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Outlook).

Responsibilities

Leading teams to deliver programs and projects that span Fred Hutch and UW Medicine ITS business units.
Working closely with senior leadership, project team managers and consultants, user representatives, other ITS teams, and UW Medicine faculty and staff.
Initiating projects.
Ensuring project deliverables and outcomes.
Analyzing business processes and data.
Managing portfolio communications, including dashboards and reports.
Managing resources, schedules, scope, financials, and approach throughout the full project life cycle.
Identifying and resolving issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
Planning and directing the configuration and functional testing.
Representing the service-line leaders in meetings, communications, and decision-making around portfolio execution.
Providing tactical guidance to service-line leaders based on portfolio execution.
Facilitating user requirements and project implementation.
Developing and maintaining project plans, schedules, and other project management documents.
Supporting the operational departments to improve associated systems.