Senior Program Manager - Strategy and Transformation

Morrisville, NC

Job Description

Description

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

 Job Summary

Supports the day-to-day activities for the Program Management function and charged with the successful development and implementation of UNC Health’s evolving strategy and other priority system initiatives. This role provides strategic leadership and oversight of complex, high impact initiatives across UNC Health. This role is accountable for driving the successful delivery of programs that advance UNC Health’s strategic vision, operational excellence, and long-term system performance. This senior-level position partners closely with executive sponsors, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams to design, implement, and sustain programs to realize our strategic vision. Ideal candidates will have demonstrated experience in managing complex strategic programs in a health care setting. 

 Description of Job Responsibilities

1. Strategic Program Leadership: Manage the development and execution of multi-year programs with system-wide impact. Define and oversee program objectives to ensure alignment with UNC Health’s strategic priorities. Provide thought leadership to senior leaders and cross-functional teams to help establish and deliver on strategic initiatives. 

2. Executive Collaboration and Influence: Partner with senior leaders to define strategic direction for a given program objective and translate priorities into executable program portfolios. Serve as a thought parter and trusted advisor to senior leaders, offering insights and recommendations to accelerate outcomes. Communicate complex strategies effectively to leadership and other key stakeholders. 

3. Operational Excellence and Change Enablement: Drive continuous improvement by implementing frameworks that promote accountability, efficiency, and measurable results. Partner closely with various functional areas to ensure stakeholder adoption, engagement, and sustained benefits. Anticipate and resolve complex operational and organizational barriers. 

4. Data-driven Analysis and Decision Support: Analyzes performance and resolves barriers to maximize efficiency and deliver on strategic goals within assigned programs. Translate data insights into actionable strategies that inform decision-making and drive improvement. Ensures all proper internal controls are in place to safeguard assets of the system and satisfies internal and external regulatory requirements. 

5. Business and Financial Planning: Provides analytical and strategy support to stakeholders in assigned programs. Performs analytics, provides business insight into implications of findings, develops business plans, and recommends opportunities for improvement. 

6. Mentorship and Team Development: Champion a culture of collaboration, innovation, and performance accountability across UNC Health. In partnership with e leadership, provide mentorship to and share best practices with Program Manager peers within function. 


Other Information

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree; in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field 

Licensure/Certification Requirements

No licensure or certification required. 

Professional Experience Requirements

Seven (7) years of program/project management experience required with at least two (2) years in a related role within a healthcare or large, complex organization preferred. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: Strategy and Transformation

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes


This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.


Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

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Description

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

 Job Summary

Supports the day-to-day activities for the Program Management function and charged with the successful development and implementation of UNC Health’s evolving strategy and other priority system initiatives. This role provides strategic leadership and oversight of complex, high impact initiatives across UNC Health. This role is accountable for driving the successful delivery of programs that advance UNC Health’s strategic vision, operational excellence, and long-term system performance. This senior-level position partners closely with executive sponsors, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams to design, implement, and sustain programs to realize our strategic vision. Ideal candidates will have demonstrated experience in managing complex strategic programs in a health care setting. 

 Description of Job Responsibilities

1. Strategic Program Leadership: Manage the development and execution of multi-year programs with system-wide impact. Define and oversee program objectives to ensure alignment with UNC Health’s strategic priorities. Provide thought leadership to senior leaders and cross-functional teams to help establish and deliver on strategic initiatives. 

2. Executive Collaboration and Influence: Partner with senior leaders to define strategic direction for a given program objective and translate priorities into executable program portfolios. Serve as a thought parter and trusted advisor to senior leaders, offering insights and recommendations to accelerate outcomes. Communicate complex strategies effectively to leadership and other key stakeholders. 

3. Operational Excellence and Change Enablement: Drive continuous improvement by implementing frameworks that promote accountability, efficiency, and measurable results. Partner closely with various functional areas to ensure stakeholder adoption, engagement, and sustained benefits. Anticipate and resolve complex operational and organizational barriers. 

4. Data-driven Analysis and Decision Support: Analyzes performance and resolves barriers to maximize efficiency and deliver on strategic goals within assigned programs. Translate data insights into actionable strategies that inform decision-making and drive improvement. Ensures all proper internal controls are in place to safeguard assets of the system and satisfies internal and external regulatory requirements. 

5. Business and Financial Planning: Provides analytical and strategy support to stakeholders in assigned programs. Performs analytics, provides business insight into implications of findings, develops business plans, and recommends opportunities for improvement. 

6. Mentorship and Team Development: Champion a culture of collaboration, innovation, and performance accountability across UNC Health. In partnership with e leadership, provide mentorship to and share best practices with Program Manager peers within function. 


Other Information

Education Requirements

Bachelor’s degree; in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field 

Licensure/Certification Requirements

No licensure or certification required. 

Professional Experience Requirements

Seven (7) years of program/project management experience required with at least two (2) years in a related role within a healthcare or large, complex organization preferred. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: Strategy and Transformation

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes


This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.


Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

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About UNC Health

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research. 

 UNC Health and its 33,000 employees, continue to serve as North Carolina’s Health Care System, caring for patients from all 100 counties and beyond our borders. We continue to leverage the world class research conducted in the UNC School of Medicine, translating that innovation to life-saving and life-changing therapies, procedures, and techniques for the patients who rely on us.

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