Senior Project Manager/Consultant, Access & Innovation

About the Role

UW Medicine Access & Innovation has an outstanding opportunity for a Fixed Term Duration Senior Project Manager/Consultant. This position supports the Ambulatory Care Division and aligns with UW Medicine's Patient Are First Pillar Goals: serving patients and families, providing the highest quality care, becoming the employer of choice, and practicing fiscal responsibility.

Position Highlights

• Lead Strategic Access Improvement Initiatives: Identify barriers to patient access and design, implement, and monitor enterprise-wide solutions that enhance operational efficiency, patient experience, and provider satisfaction
• Thrive Complex Project Execution & Change Management: Apply structured methodologies to lead cross-functional projects, manage budgets and timelines, and ensure successful implementation of new technologies, workflows, and vendor partnerships
• Leverage Data & Business Analysis for Decision-Making: Conduct and lead data-driven analyses to inform access strategies, develop value cases, and track performance metrics to ensure alignment with organizational goals and ROI
• Constructs and/or Leads Data Analysis: Ensures efficient data collection, making appropriate analytical choices and summarizing conclusions and recommendations
• Foster Collaboration Across a Matrixed Health System: Build strong relationships with clinical departments, IT, and administrative leaders to gain buy-in, facilitate change, and ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational standards

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior project manager/consultant for Access and Innovation, UW Medicine
• Lead implementation of new technology and tools related to patient access including design of work plans, workflows, contracts/pricing and related vendor management tools
• Project Expense Management (Budget)
• Analytics & Resource Allocation

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, Healthcare Administration, or related field AND six to eight years of demonstrated success in a consulting capacity in a related healthcare, hospital, or ambulatory setting to include:

• Five years of Healthcare and Patient Access related experience
• Five years of Project Management and Change Management experience
• Five years of Epic experience
• Five years of Ambulatory experience

Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.