Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives Project Manager

Stanford Health Care • Palo Alto, CA

10d • $59 - $78 • Onsite

About The Position

The Supply Chain Strategic Initiatives Project Manager is responsible for leading and delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives that directly support and enable the Supply Chain Strategic Plan. This role works across a multi-disciplinary Supply Chain with matrixed teams. Operating within a matrix reporting structure, this position partners closely with Supply Chain leadership, clinical leaders, and operational stakeholders across the organization. The role requires a deep understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain operations and systems, and the ability to translate strategic priorities into executable projects and initiatives that deliver measurable operational, financial, and service outcomes. An important component of this role is organizational change management. The Strategic Initiatives Project Manager is responsible for ensuring projects and initiatives are successfully adopted and sustained across a highly complex healthcare environment. The role provides thought leadership, analytical insight, decision support, and project oversight for initiatives related to operating model design, workflow optimization, resiliency planning, supplier performance, contract effectiveness, disruption response, and data-driven planning within Supply Chain. The Project Manager serves as a key liaison between Supply Chain, clinical and operational end users, vendors, and external partners, as it pertains to projects and initiatives assigned. The PM will consistently model professionalism, diplomacy, cultural sensitivity, and composure under pressure in alignment with Stanford Health Care's C-I-CARE values.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or an equivalent combination of education, training, and progressively responsible professional experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the role.
• Minimum of six (6) years progressively responsible experience leading projects or organizational change management in Supply Chain, or hospital operations, and project or program management, or a related field with a bachelor’s degree. Or a minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience leading projects or organizational change management in Supply Chain, or hospital operations, and project or program management required.
• Demonstrated experience working in complex, matrixed organizations, preferably within healthcare or similarly regulated environments required.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates the required competencies may be considered.
• Strong analytical, organizational, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects/initiatives involving diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience supporting strategic initiatives tied to organizational or functional strategic plans.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain operations, logistics, purchasing, supplier relations, contract management, and planning/analytics.
• Understanding of resiliency planning and disruption management concepts within operational environments.
• Demonstrated ability to apply organizational change management principles to drive adoption and sustain outcomes.
• Ability to effectively engage stakeholders at all levels, including frontline staff working across multiple shifts and locations.
• Strong consultative, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize work, exercise sound judgment, and work through problems with key stakeholders helping to drive effective outcomes for complex operational and organizational challenges.
• Proficiency with project or program management tools (e.g., MS Project or similar platforms).
• Knowledge of healthcare regulatory requirements related to patient confidentiality, data security, and operational compliance.

Nice To Haves

• PMP - Project Mgmt Professional preferred
• Lean Six Sigma Certification preferred
• Hold a Change Management Certification (e.g. Prosci) preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead and support projects and initiatives that collectively deliver against the Supply Chain Strategic Plan.
• Apply structured project management methodologies to drive initiatives from planning through execution, adoption, and sustainment of key program and operational objectives.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with leaders and teams across Supply Chain.
• Partner with clinical and operational end users ensuring initiatives are designed for these operational environments.
• Assess current-state workflows and operational performance, and partner with stakeholders to design future-state processes that improve service, efficiency, cost, and resiliency.
• Provide analytical and decision support, including business case development, performance metrics, risk assessment, and executive-level reporting.
• Lead organizational change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, change impact analysis, communication planning, training coordination, and adoption measurement.
• Clearly document project scope, objectives, success measures, dependencies, and constraints to ensure shared understanding and accountability.
• Develop and support policies, guidelines, and standard work that enable consistent and sustainable Supply Chain practices.
• Ensure initiatives comply with hospital, university, and regulatory requirements, including patient confidentiality, data security, and operational standards.
• Maintain regular, transparent communication regarding project status, risks, issues, and required actions.
• Establish and monitor performance metrics to evaluate outcomes; partner with leaders to adjust and remediate issues when needed.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, accountability, and change readiness across Supply Chain functions.

Benefits

• Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective: Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior