PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the supporting governance structure that enables the identification, selection, and pursuit of strategically aligned opportunities, with the ability to scale as needed.
• Participates in the exploration and requested/new phases of the transaction life cycle with relevant stakeholders.
• Socializes, manages and makes recommendations to improve best practices, including professional development of team members within the Enterprise Project Management Office (EMPO).
• Oversees complex, cross-regional initiatives including structuring and managing programs, projects, overseeing the analytics process, helping to forge consensus among key stakeholders and ensuring adequate business cases to support the work.
• Builds cross-team relationships to manage cultural integration and applies change management principles to the overall EPMO work to ensure success.
• Responsible for managing the structure and governance model to sustain the EPMO and the associated governing bodies.
• Tracks EPMO metrics, monitoring processes and tools to effectively monitor all enterprise level programs, projects, and integrations plans, ensuring key timelines/milestones are met and operational and financial metrics are achieved.
• Develops, selects, and maintains data, analytic and planning tools and project methodologies, while collaborating with and leveraging resources of other related departments.
• Educates stakeholders on EPMO capabilities and standards and leadership skills, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and change management within the organization.
• Commissions post project review and socialization of lessons learned, after action reviews, and online surveys from workstream leads in determining and aligning on best practices to use in future initiatives.
• Responsible for the recruitment and oversight of the EPMO, developing and growing capabilities of the workforce, leading day-to-day operations and annual budget, in collaboration.
• Responsible to oversee and coordinate with all satellite EPMO roles embedded within other parts of the organization as part of the EPMO governance and implementation responsibilities
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree

EXPERIENCE

• Seven years' experience, with five years' in leadership

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

SSM Health is a nationally recognized Catholic, not-for-profit integrated health system serving Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Jon Dirksen

Executive Talent Acquisition

jon.dirksen@ssmhealth.com

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