Transformation Manager

CentraCare•Saint Cloud, MN

7d•$87,209 - $130,890•Hybrid

About The Position

Find your purpose as a Transformation Manager at CentraCare, where you will help advance our mission of Making Rural Life Healthier through transformative healthcare initiatives that truly make a difference. This is your opportunity to bring your clinical experience and operational insights to the forefront of strategic change. This position is instrumental in driving strategic change and organizational performance, fostering innovation in care delivery, and shaping the future of healthcare for rural communities. The Transformation Management team is responsible for portfolio management of improvement initiatives totaling $150M+ in NOI, collaborating with CentraCare clinical and operational leaders as well as other team members to identify improvement opportunities, provide system-level measurements, and maintain robust reporting capabilities in support of our strategic and operational goals. If you’re passionate about improving healthcare systems and creating lasting change for rural communities, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

Master's Degree required; preferably in project management, business administration, management or related field.
5 years plus years of Project Management experience in a large, complex health care organization required.
Experience using Performance Improvement tools.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, including Excel and PowerPoint.
High comfort level with ambiguity and leading teams through the process of getting to tangible deliverables.
Strong skill set in conflict resolution at an executive level.
Demonstrated business acumen, quantitative and analytic skills.
Ability to navigate organizational politics.

Responsibilities

Focuses on bigger organizational changes such as identifying opportunities, building the business case for change, assisting in defining the action steps/workplans, and identify and create risk mitigation plans.
Supports implementation focused on service line restructuring.
Supports implementation of growth strategies.
Utilizes broad change management strategies which drives higher efficiency and effectiveness.
Actively champions and contributes to the continuous improvement of project management best practices, using innovative ideas to increase effectiveness of the overall organization. Provide subject matter expertise in areas including project scope definition, risk identification, project methodology, resource allocation, facilitation, and other areas of expertise based on established project management techniques.
Works effectively with business partners, vendors, and staff to develop the project agenda and ensure agreement/adoption of project objectives/deliverables by affected constituencies. Provide proactive project communication to project owner. Work to identify cross-organizational interdependencies and ensure appropriate integration to project plan. Effectively manage client expectations and resource requirements to ensure ownership and success.
Establishes and nurtures strong client and business partner relationships while also developing and maintaining trusted, long-term client relationships.
Provides transparency and manage integrated work plans to CentraCare organizational leaders for all projects in Transformation Management portfolio.
Monitors overall financial impact of projects through the Transformation Management Office work and appropriate reporting for the Executive Director, Enterprise Project, Transformation and Analytics, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Acts as a key operational representative on the appropriate Steering Committee(s).