Senior Program Manager, Laboratory Administration

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact at one of the nation's premier academic health systems? As a Senior Program Manager, you will lead many strategic initiatives starting with managing the design and activation of a cutting-edge, custom-built Laboratory facility for Stanford Clinical Laboratories and Stanford Blood Center. This role offers the unique opportunity to collaborate with Industry Leading Pathologists and Design and Construction specialists to manage complex operational changes and deliver results that shape the future of laboratory services at Stanford Health Care.

This role will partner with the Stanford Clinical Laboratories and Stanford Blood Center (SBC) with an immediate focus on facilitating the transition to a new, custom built shared building. The initial focus and role of the Senior Program Manager will be to create, manage, and facilitate a transition plan for equipment, staff, and operations of the new labs. Interviews with key stakeholders including Department of Pathology Faculty, Lab and SBC Operations Leaders, and Planning, Design, & Construction will be required to capture current state, proposed future state, and to create the milestone and detailed move plans to support the future state.
Key deliverables are the equipment move plan and timeline, equipment purchase list, instrument validation timeline and plans, transition plan for staff, and decommission plan for old laboratories. The Senior Program Manager will work closely with the Vice President of Clinical Laboratories and the Vice President of Stanford Blood Center. This position will report to the Director, Program Management Office and Ambulatory Business Operations.

Knowledge of clinical activations, laboratory workflows, and space planning are preferred.

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 o