Project Manager - Operational Improvement

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai! Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named to the Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals 2025-2026” rankings. When you join our team, you’ll gain access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities and sophisticated medical education programs. We offer learning programs, tuition reimbursement and performance-improvement projects so you can achieve certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career. We take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees! Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff reflect the culturally and ethnically varied community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

Requirements

High School Diploma/GED - minimum
5 years Program or Project Management, Project support and/or leadership experience - minimum
Project Mgmt Professional - Upon Hire preferred
PMP (Project Management Professional)

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree Health care, Business Administration, or a related field - preferred
Master's Degree (FOR CSI ONLY) Health Care, Business Administration, or a related field - minimum

Responsibilities

Works with all key stakeholders to manage the deployment and completion of all aspects and stages of the project assigned.
Organizes project teams, assigns responsibilities, develops project schedules, and determines resource requirements.
Ensures requirements are managed and delivered per project timeline, and identifies and mitigates potential risks for implementation.
Partners with leadership to assess, track and resolve risks.
Develops and documents plans that ensure all necessary preparation, execution tasks and dependencies are identified and included.
Ensures that necessary resources and skills are allocated for project success.
Assesses needs, evaluates solutions, makes recommendations, and escalates to senior leaders/key stakeholders, if needed.
Responsible for the oversight of functional project team, including partnering closely with subject matter experts to help gather, assess and track project deliverables.
Hold project teams accountable for project deliverables, resolves issues and conflicts, and escalates resource or budget issues.
Provides cross-functional solution direction and guidance, including aiding in resolving any conflicting project decisions.
Discusses business case scenarios, presents to senior management and guides team(s) on implementing the best solution through consensus building.
Operates as a full cross-functional leader/member of the project team by supporting project leadership and other team members with resolving obstacles, ensuring collaboration between teams, and providing project updates and communication.
Creates and/or reviews project communications and updates with all stakeholders, in partnership with project leadership.
Ensures an effective change management strategy is developed and implemented.
May be responsible for managing budget, costing, timing and other resources including vendor management, staffing and/or deliverables to ensure utilization within the project guidelines.
Responsible for implementing later phase solutions, if applicable.