Sr Project Manager (Program Administrator 3)

Department Overview

OHSU Payor Strategy & Managed Care Contracting is responsible for developing and executing strategies that ensure fair, sustainable reimbursement and strong payer partnerships across OHSU Health. The department leads negotiations with commercial, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid health plans; structures contracts that support OHSU's academic medical center mission; and aligns financial, clinical, and operational priorities across the health system.

Working in close partnership with Finance, Revenue Cycle, Clinical Operations, Population Health, and the OHSU Clinically Integrated Network (CIN), the team translates market insights, cost trends, and regulatory dynamics into actionable contracting strategies. This includes evaluating payer performance, advancing value-based care arrangements, and ensuring contract language protects OHSU from administrative burden and unfavorable policy changes. Through disciplined governance, data-driven analytics, and coordinated execution, the department supports access to high-quality care for patients while strengthening OHSU's long-term financial sustainability and market position.

Function/Duties of Position

This position provides mission-critical project leadership for enterprise payor strategy initiatives, with a primary focus on supporting complex payor negotiations, contract performance management, and potential payor terminations that have direct and material impact on OHSU’s financial sustainability, patient access, and public mission.  Embedded within the Office of Payor Strategy, including the Office of OHSU Health Plan Services, this role serves as a central integrator across contracting, finance, operations, and clinical stakeholders to ensure disciplined execution of OHSU’s highest-risk and highest-impact payor initiatives.

Project Management

• Provide end-to-end project leadership for enterprise, business-critical initiatives within the Clinical Enterprise and Office of Payor Strategy, including programs that support complex payor negotiations, contract performance, and potential payor terminations; partner closely with executive sponsors, senior leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate strategic direction into disciplined execution.
• Establish and manage project governance structures, operating cadence, and delivery infrastructure to support high-risk, high-visibility initiatives; tailor project management and change management methodologies to the specific operational, financial, regulatory, and reputational considerations of each initiative.
• Define project structures, recommend team composition, and clarify roles, decision rights, and accountability across highly matrixed, multidisciplinary teams; design and manage communication, escalation, and reporting processes to ensure transparency, alignment, and timely executive decision-making.
• Proactively identify, engage, and coordinate subject-matter experts across contracting, finance, legal, compliance, clinical operations, revenue cycle, communications, and external partners to support informed planning, risk mitigation, and successful execution.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans that manage scope, timelines, resources, interdependencies, financial considerations, and quality standards; ensure delivery is aligned with organizational priorities, executive direction, and established project management best practices.
• Monitor project performance against milestones and objectives; identify risks, issues, and dependencies early; develop mitigation and contingency plans; and provide structured, executive-level status reporting, analysis, and recommendations.
• Actively assess and reconcile overlaps, conflicts, and dependencies across concurrent initiatives, operational priorities, and enterprise strategies to reduce risk, prevent duplication, and ensure coordinated execution across the organization.
• Operate effectively in fast-moving, high-pressure environments with significant financial and operational impact; manage competing priorities, tight deadlines, and evolving conditions while maintaining rigor, accountability, and quality of delivery.

Communications and Stakeholder Change Management

• Build and sustain high-performing, highly engaged project teams by fostering collaboration, trust, and accountability across the full project lifecycle; proactively address team dynamics, barriers, and risks to maintain momentum and execution discipline.
• Design and execute tailored stakeholder engagement and change management strategies to drive alignment, ownership, and adoption across diverse clinical, operational, financial, and executive audiences; cultivate active sponsorship, reinforce shared accountability, and support leaders through periods of change.
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