Project Manager, Food Services

The University of Chicago Medicine • Chicago, IL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Be a part of a world-class academic health-care system, UChicago Medicine, as a Project Manager, Food Services, at our Hyde Park medical campus. This position will be primarily onsite with some opportunities for remote work. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area.
In this role, the Food Services Project Manager will provide support for the Food Services team at the Hyde Park Location. The Food Service Project Manager will develop tools, implement programs, and processes necessary to drive organizational initiatives. Must have demonstrated the ability to collaborate with stakeholders to develop, manage, and execute project management and achieve desired project outcomes. The successful candidate is a forward thinker and exercises a solid business acumen/savvy, organization, stakeholder (people) expectation management, and project leadership skills. The job requires a strategic mindset, excellent communication abilities, analytical skills, self-motivation, and creativity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent training acquired via work experience or education
• Three years of related work experience
• Three years of previous project/performance improvement experience, with focus on operational change, and implementation of lean and quality improvement principles

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree
• Healthcare, food service, or support services operational experience

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all project phases and project deliverables: intake, organization, assignment, and closeout of projects.
• Oversees project plan creation, execution, stakeholder responsibilities, monitoring, communication cadence, and customized communications as identified by the leadership team.
• Assigns individual responsibilities, conducts project meetings, coordinates activities, identifies appropriate resources needed, and develops schedules to ensure adherence to quality standards, timely completion of projects, including project tracking and analysis
• Provides support for capturing current workflows, identifying improvement opportunities, and developing future workflows.
• Fosters relationships by developing a strong level of trust and credibility with all stakeholders.
• Translates and communicates information, implications, and recommendations using clear written and verbal skills appropriately with a diverse audience.
• Enables identification, resolution, and potential escalation of issues and course correct/revise project plans.
• Provides support, as assigned, to institution-wide process improvement and clinical resource management initiatives while coordinating analyses of information from multiple sources
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• UChicago Medicine is committed to transparency in compensation and benefits.
• Review the full complement of benefit options for eligible roles at Benefits - UChicago Medicine.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees