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Sr Program Manager, Cardiovascular Health Destination Service Line
Stanford Health CarePalo Alto, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Dec 2025
💰 $198,000/yr($150,000/yr – $198,000/yr)
About the role
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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)Drive Meaningful Change. Lead with Insight. Deliver Results that Matter.
Join a high-impact team where strategic thinking meets operational excellence. As the Senior Program Manager for the Cardiovascular destination service line, you’ll work closely with senior service line leaders to uncover opportunities, solve complex problems, and shape and drive strategic initiatives that strengthen performance, enable data-informed decisions, and advance key operational, business, and strategic goals. Your work will play a critical role in shaping how we improve care delivery, support our teams, and create lasting value across the organization.This is a Stanford Health Care job.
A Brief Overview
Leads large strategic and cross-functional improvement programs by defining strategic intent of programs and overseeing deliverable development to ensure project goals are met.
Locations
Stanford Health Care
What you will do
- Provide program leadership for large strategic and cross-functional improvement programs as assigned by the Administrative Director.
- Manages, assesses, and documents project scope and program utilizing standard A3 template.
- Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support strategic business goals in collaboration with the Administrative Director and other key stakeholder.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and recognize and use synergies from other projects to design creative solutions for technological and non-technological problems as well as identify future projects.
- Implements quality control measures to ensure project compliance with department, hospital and University policies, government codes and regulations; also ensures conformance to the requirements of all project participants.
- Manage program design and structure for department's key initiatives and projects within assigned leadership division, develop strategic input for the Director regarding business objectives of clients for both current and future projects.
- Partner with Operations Manager(s) to identify and develop the leadership needs and internal capacity of the department, and facilitate strategic changes in project scope or assignment across the team.
- Coach and mentor department staff through change process and cycles of continuous improvement.
- Works with various departments and physician groups, develops relationships with key stakeholders, and understands their departmental workflows.
- Prepares and maintains accurate, coherent, timely and auditable project records and cost estimates, as applicable, within department guidelines.
- Provides leadership, coordination and support to all team members.
Education Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university Required
- Master degree in work related field from an accredited college. Preferred
Experience Qualifications
- Three (3) years of progressive responsibility and directly related work experience
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with widely diverse groups, including individuals at all levels both within and outside the organization and gain their cooperation
- Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, work independently and meet deadline
- Ability to promote a spirit of inquiry and practice based on evidence by using research based knowledge or research utilization methods to identify and implement innovations in patient care and/or participating in research, clinical investigatory or quality projects
- Skilled in project management
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Ability to provide leadership and influence others
- Ability to resolve conflicts and/or negotiate with others to achieve positive results; establish and maintain effective interpersonal relationships
Licenses and Certifications
- None .
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Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foun
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