Director Performance Excellence - Irving (Irving)

CHRISTUS Health
Irving, TX

Director Performance Excellence - Irving

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Summary:

The Director Performance Excellence will charter and execute organization-wide efforts to ensure that Performance Excellence (PE) programs are developed and managed using a data-driven focus that sets priorities for projects aligned to ongoing strategic imperatives. Assures those organization-wide PE initiatives are focused and aligned on advancing operational and program efficiencies and effectiveness; participates in organizational strategic planning and provides leadership for PE policy development; provides leadership and coordination for enhancing the organizations core functions and evaluating the impact that systems improvements have on the organization; and researches and develops PE training programs that focus on enabling the labor force to obtain necessary achievements.

Description

Summary:

The Director Performance Excellence will charter and execute organization-wide efforts to ensure that Performance Excellence (PE) programs are developed and managed using a data-driven focus that sets priorities for projects aligned to ongoing strategic imperatives. Assures those organization-wide PE initiatives are focused and aligned on advancing operational and program efficiencies and effectiveness; participates in organizational strategic planning and provides leadership for PE policy development; provides leadership and coordination for enhancing the organizations core functions and evaluating the impact that systems improvements have on the organization; and researches and develops PE training programs that focus on enabling the labor force to obtain necessary achievements.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrates outstanding collaboration and cultivates positive relationships with all customers, associates, executives, physicians, patients, vendors, and visitors
  • Proactively identifies performance process opportunities and management process gaps, then implements solutions with alignment from key stakeholders
  • Defines, develops, and evaluates performance metrics to establish process success, including working with multiple stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives, to ensure cohesive measures of success
  • Identifies, plans, leads, and implements key projects to ensure operational best practices are applied and shared across the system to assist in moving the organization forward in strategic performance objectives
  • Organizes and structures cross-functional teams to drive complex programs across both shared functions and market operations including large data sets, root cause analysis, and gap analysis
  • Serves as a change agent, assisting leaders and associates to assimilate change in performance processes and practices
  • Reviews data post-implementation to measure success; defines standards of performance success.
  • Synthesizes and presents learnings, insights, and recommendations for key stakeholders and executive leadership
  • Hires, trains, develops, supervises, and coaches Performance Excellence team members to include managers, business operations engineers, and industrial engineers
  • Directs and develops fully evolved project management skills with an emphasis on communication and building relationships across multiple large-scale projects
  • Participates in special projects and performs other job duties as assigned

Requirements

Education/Skills

  • Masters Degree
  • Proficient with Lean Six Sigma methodologies
  • Ability to work full-time in a hospital, clinic, or office environment
  • Ability to work with all levels of associates across the organization
  • Outstanding stakeholder management, critical/analytical thinking, and senior executive communication/presentation skills
  • Highly motivated, inspirational leader able to innovatively engage, support, and remove barriers for the team to ensure the team consistently meets established goals

Experience

  • Minimum 10 years of professional experience
  • 7+ years of experience in a healthcare setting required
  • 5+ years of experience managing professionals

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

  • Lean Master Black Belt, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, or Lean-Six Sigma Master Black Belt required

Work Schedule

5 Days - 8 Hours

Work Type

Full Time

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Not Applicable

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
  • Industries

    Hospitals and Health Care

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