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Value Analysis Project Manager (Partial Remote) - Sourcing and Value Analysis

University of Texas Medical Branch
13 hours ago
Remote friendly (Webster, TX, United States)
United States
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Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in a business or healthcare-related field, or equivalent relevant work experience and one (1) year of relevant experience Preferred Qualifications: One year of experience in a healthcare setting Certification in project management Master’s degree in a healthcare-related field Clinical work experience Job Summary: The Value Analysis Project Manager reports to the Director of Strategic Sourcing and Value Analysis. Responsible for managing multiple Value Analysis projects, including but not limited to product conversions and product trials. Has excellent project management skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities, and works well in a clinical setting. Responsible for working with relevant stakeholders to implement initiatives set forth by the Director of Strategic Sourcing and Value Analysis and the various Value Analysis Committees. Receives directive from the Clinical Resource Managers and rotates amongst them to implement necessary initiatives. Job Duties: Project Portfolio Management and Governance: Lead assigned projects and programs across Supply Chain Services from intake and prioritization through planning, execution, transition, closeout, and benefits realization. Develop and maintain project charters, scopes, objectives, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, resource plans, budgets, governance structures, communication plans, and integrated schedules. Facilitate project intake and prioritization by evaluating strategic alignment, operational impact, customer need, resource requirements, implementation complexity, financial opportunity, and risk. Establish clear decision rights, roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths using tools such as RACI matrices, governance calendars, issue logs, and decision logs. Monitor scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, dependencies, risks, and benefits; identify variances early and implement corrective actions or escalation plans. Prepare concise, accurate project status reports and executive briefings that communicate progress, decisions required, barriers, risks, financial impact, and next steps. Process Improvement and Operational Excellence: Lead current-state assessments and future-state design for end-to-end supply chain processes, including handoffs between Supply Chain Services and clinical, academic, research, and administrative departments. Apply project management principles to workflow analysis and other structured improvement methods to identify waste, variation, defects, delays, and control gaps. Facilitate cross-functional workshops to define problems, validate requirements, map workflows, analyze root causes, develop countermeasures, and obtain stakeholder agreement on future-state processes. Develop implementation plans, standard work, procedures, controls, training materials, and sustainment plans that embed improvements into daily operations. Establish process owners, control measures, review cadences, and escalation thresholds to ensure improvements are sustained and performance does not regress. Identify opportunities for efficiencies and process improvements across the enterprise. Analytics, Measurement, and Benefits Realization: Collect, validate, integrate, and analyze operational, financial, spend, utilization, supplier, inventory, service-level, and workflow data from multiple systems and business owners. Define baseline performance, target outcomes, key performance indicators, data definitions, calculation methodologies, data owners, reporting frequency, and acceptance criteria for each initiative. Develop business cases, cost-benefit analyses, return-on-investment models, capacity analyses, forecasts, scenarios, and sensitivity analyses to support project selection and decision-making. Collaborate on developing and maintaining dashboards, scorecards, trackers, and executive reports that provide timely visibility into delivery performance, operational outcomes, financial value, and risk.…

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