Senior Project Analyst

Join UPMC Shadyside's Surgical Services department, where excellence in patient care meets the latest in surgical innovations. As a Senior Project Analyst, you'll be at the heart of exciting, high-impact projects that enhance surgical processes, improve outcomes, and help shape the future of healthcare. This is your chance to work alongside a passionate and talented team, leveraging your expertise to streamline operations and drive transformative changes that truly make a difference in patients' lives. If you’re ready for a challenging and rewarding career where your contributions will directly impact the success of our department, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Process report requests as needed by Manager and Directors.
• Perform complex project and data analysis as needed by Management.
• Recommend and implement process improvement initiatives within the department as well as implementing process improvement initiatives based on management decision.
• Assist Management in defining and documenting tasks and duties within department.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, this includes utilizing standard project documentation and methodology and project tracking and reporting procedures.
• Develops cross-functional, change management and implementation strategies, ensuring that all of the participating parties have committed to effective implementation of the processes and procedures.
• Provide concise and timely status reporting as required.
• Develops and implements key metrics to measure and report on progress of initiatives.
• Assists team members in resolving project problems, escalates issues when necessary, and facilities decision-making.
• Identifies trends and process improvement opportunities across departments within Patient Care Services Division.
• Performs cost/benefit analysis.
• Assures quality of information through business case and application-level testing; validates test results to initial business needs.
• Assist with achieving strategic goals.
• Works with other managers to achieve efficiencies across integration of projects.
• Manages initiative/process day-to-day administrative activities with little supervision.
• Develops and manages specialized processes.
• Trains and coordinates the daily activities of Project Analysts.
• Serves as a knowledge expert to the Account Management Team relating to the EBS System, Excel and internal processes & procedures.
• Develops documentation of processes and procedures to assist in training and to facilitate consistency across the project team.