Project Manager, Value Analysis

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Organization:

SHSO-Sutter Health System Office-Valley

Position Overview:

Serves as a regionally-based project manager in the areas of non-salary expense reduction with a focus on implementation. Facilitates and drives cost reduction opportunities in collaboration with regional and system-based value management activities. Assists regional value management teams and in identifying savings initiatives and provides regular feedback on implementation progress. Develops presentations and progress reports on regional value management activities. Assists hospitals, acute care facilities, and foundations in understanding methods and processes required to achieve measurable results. Provides expertise and assistance in implementing system and regional contracts to optimize expense reduction opportunities. Facilitates regional value management team meetings. Required onsite presence a minimum of two days per week or more dependent upon business needs.

Job Description:

These Principal Accountabilities, Requirements and Qualifications are not exhaustive, but are merely the most descriptive of the current job. Management reserves the right to revise the job description or require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example, emergencies, staff changes, workload, or technical development).

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Cost Reduction Initiatives:

• Develops processes to facilitate contract implementation, both regional and system-wide.
• Communicates and coordinates activities with all levels of value management staff.
• Employs systems and techniques that result in high-levels of contract compliance, monitors results, and reports on progress.
• Assists stakeholders with exception process if current standard fails to meet clinical requirements.
• Acts as a liaison between system projects and the region.

Value Management:

• Ensures effective communications and collaboration within the value management environment.
• Assists in the identification and support of system-wide value management team members.
• Builds and uses cross-functional relationships to accomplish project objectives.
• Assembles regional teams with the appropriate mix of skills and representation for local projects and may either lead or co-lead teams as assigned.
• May attend physician or executive leadership meetings, as requested, to provide project updates.

Project Management:

• Provides oversight and project management of contract conversion/implementation process.
• Ensures visibility and support of the business case as appropriate.
• Verifies the key success indicators as the basis for managing the project and sets and meets deadlines.
• Ensures that project status, issues, and successes are communicated and documented.
• Maintains and updates supply trend dashboards to track project savings performance based on data provided by regional or system analysts.

Product Evaluations:

• For the region, coordinates supplier and department/facility activities driven product evaluations at either the regional or system levels
• Secures requirements for product evaluations that may include the number of clinical participants, amount of product needed to fulfill the evaluation process, etc.

EDUCATION:

Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.

Bachelor's: Business Administration, or healthcare, or related field

TYPICAL EXPERIENCE:

2 years recent relevant experience.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

Demonstrated success in major project coordination and implementation of successful cost containment initiatives.

Proficiency in computer software including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Visio.

Ability to synthesize data and create meaningful presentation.

Ability to quickly grasp data provided in opportunity analyses and effectively secure feedback to the supplying source as to its quality.

Knowledge of healthcare products and equipment, inventory sources, and alternative sources of supply, purchasing, and distribution systems, contract administration, and new or emerging trends in the industry.

Must be able to successfully facilitate team meetings that may involve competing objectives.

Ability to manage complex situations with a high degree of variation.

Proven ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.

Successful experience in the coordination of processes for numerous sites.

Team leadership and organization skills.

Job Shift:

Days

Schedule:

Full Time

Days of the Week:

Monday - Friday

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

Benefits:

Yes

Unions:

No

Position Status:

Exempt

Weekly Hours:

40

Employee Status:

Regular

Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.

Pay Range is $97,032.00 to $145,558.40 / annual salary

The posted pay range is based on the position's primary work location. Candidates who reside and work outside of that location may be subject to a different pay range based on their work location. Candidate starting salaries consider multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate's experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health's comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.