Director, Project Management - Procurement & Analytics

• Creates dashboards that show utilization variances and improvement opportunities across all non-labor expense classes with scenarios modeling savings when top quartile and decile performance is achieved
• Develops and maintains dashboards tying net savings from contracting (when prices go up and down) and utilization improvement back to the corporate profit and loss statements
• Models service line volume changes and overall health to inform sourcing strategies
• Creates predictive/forecasting models supporting inventory management based on internal and external data supporting supply chain resilience
• Identifies cause/effect relationships from purchasing, clinical and operational data using inference tools
• Creates training materials, best practice manuals and action plans to purse cost-out initiatives based on analytics

• Sets, monitors, and maintains the project goals, objectives, limitations, resources and defined stakeholders in a project charter for the governance of the project
• Perform overall project planning, management operationalization
• Create and maintain project artifacts, including: project plans, project status reports, project issues and risks, communication plans, education materials and knowledge transfer documentation for multiple projects.
• Ensure that issues and risks are properly escalated and resolved 
• Initiate and conduct internal team status meetings, document risks and issues and communicate to the team
• Facilitate communication and coordination within the project team and other stakeholders 
• Contributes to projects life-cycle improvement through lessons learned, project archives etc.

• Ability to engage and carry conversations with the local hospital leadership team; including C-Suite presentations and reporting. 
• In-depth knowledge of project management methodology, tools and techniques for entire project life-cycle and across all knowledge areas 
• Presentation and executive communication experience
• Excellent multi-tasking and problem-solving skills 
• Effective interviewing and meeting facilitation skills 
• Able to define, collect and document complex business and technical requirements 
• Comfortable in high-volume, deadline-driven environment 
• Strong attention to detail 
• Highly adaptable 
• Effective coaching and mentoring skills
• Consistent professional behavior in all activities
• Bachelor’s degree required, Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering preferred
• Ability to use SQL and Python to find relevant data, automate repetitive data management tasks and create predictive models to support inventory management, sourcing activities and scenario planning
• Competent in building robust and user-friendly dashboard in PowerBI or comparable analytics platform
• Experience and/or certification in Google BigQuery
• Experience using common data science methods
• Ability to understand and anticipate business needs using technical skills
• Strong action-bias with the ability to adjust and iterate projects to meet the changing needs of the business

Tenet Healthcare/United Surgical Partners International (USPI) complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.