Sr. Director, Future Hospital Transition & Activation
Kaiser Permanente is seeking a dedicated leader to provide comprehensive oversight for the Future Sunnyside Medical Center Program. The Transition & Activation Leader will ensure successful activation of the new 308-bed hospital tower and provide oversight of all high-level deliverables to ensure execution on time and on budget including high-level leadership conversations and coordination, intensive stakeholder management, change leadership, troubleshooting, budget, and air traffic control across various departments and committees.
Key Responsibilities Include :
- Strategic Leadership : In collaboration with hospital leadership, develops the vision and operational plan for the future Sunnyside Medical Center. Develops programs, strategies, and tactics to achieve the vision. Serves as the primary champion and internal spokesperson for the program.
- Transition Planning and Execution : Leads all transition planning activities of multiple project phases and oversees the successful transition and activation of the new facility. Develops and oversees a program plan and provides regular reports and updates to a variety of audiences, including senior Market executives.
- Activation Team Leadership : Leads a team committed to achieving specified goals of a highly visible, complex, multi-year and multi-faceted facility transition project, focusing on change management, operations improvement, building activation, building occupancy and operations transfer. Leads a team of project managers to plan, facilitate and provide project management for transition, building activation, building occupancy and operational start-up of the Sunnyside campus.
- Stakeholder Engagement : Coordinates with other departments (e.g., National Facilities Design & Construction, Information Technology, Healthcare Technology Management, Start-Up Services, Facilities Operations, etc.), as well as makes important linkages between departments. In collaboration with Communications, develops project-related communications for internal and external audiences.
Essential Responsibilities Include :
Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement.Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives.Oversees the operation of multiple units and / or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies.Oversees the delivery of large-scale programs or components with multiple workstreams and strategic business goals across departments, functions, or regions with responsibility and accountability for achieving program outcomes from initiation to close-out in an extended or open ended time frame.Proactively monitors, identifies, and mitigates program risks, issues, and trigger events across multiple interdependent programs by leveraging expertise and implementing significant changes to program processes based on the analyses and identification of trigger events.Oversees adherence of program activities to policies and procedures by ensuring program plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and / or business line policies and procedures.Oversees the alignment, buy-in, engagement and support of diverse programs stakeholders to guide long-term development and growth by building and maintaining relationships as well as communicating appropriately with internal customers, third party vendors, executive management, and business leaders; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders.Champions the standards for vendor performance and provides direction for service improvements or revisions to strategy. Partners with Procurement and / or Legal to develop service level and / or scope of work agreements as appropriate. Directs partnerships and contract negotiations with vendors.Minimum Qualifications :
Minimum six (6) years experience in a leadership role with direct reports.Minimum five (5) years experience managing operational budgets or financials.Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum fifteen (15) years experience in project management or a directly related field, including minimum eight (8) years program management experience OR Minimum eighteen (18) years experience in project management or a directly related field including minimum eight (8) years program management experience.Location : Portland, Oregon