Director Labor Management & Productivity

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Job Summary:
The Director of Labor Management and Productivity is responsible for developing and implementing the performance management program and improvement services for Wellstar Health System. The Director leverages a deep working knowledge of productivity and Labor Management benchmarking to drive continuous improvement and performance across the system. The Director effectively manages resources to develop and provide management reporting tools and structured improvement methodologies to enable leaders to be successful. The Director of Labor Management and Productivity supports operational and shared services leadership by providing resources to conduct focused analyses or improvement efforts and management of administrative projects and efforts. The Director is responsible for the development of training and educational materials relating to the productivity management system, management approach and labor budgeting process. The Director is responsible for the development and dissemination of performance reporting - to include the management and development of key statistics, units of service, benchmarking and reporting of related performance metrics.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Development and maintenance of labor standards used to develop departmental staffing requirements. These same standards are also used as procedural level labor standards by the Cost Accounting staff of Corporate Finance and Hospital Management in the costing and flexible budgeting techniques. Support of Hospital and shared services leadership with productivity improvement efforts to include analyses of departments and processes. Perform labor variance analyses in cooperation with departmental leadership to support their efforts in meeting defined productivity goals.

Operational Support

Support of Hospital leadership with project management and analytical resources to support operational initiatives.

Decision Support and Performance Reporting

Development and initiation of clinical analyses in support of leadership to improve the management and quality of care. Coordinate the improvement process as appropriate.

Performance Improvement:

Lead performance improvement teams as assigned.
Support performance improvement teams within the assigned area of responsibility.
This could include being an active team member or provide analytical support.

Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

• Bachelors in Industrial Engineering or Related Field - Required
• Masters - Preferred

Required Minimum Experience:
Minimum 8 years Labor Management or related experience - Required

Required Minimum Skills:
Excellent analytical and communication skills. Strong computer skills to include database analysis.
Self-directed and sets priorities for department. Asks for resources or additional support as needed. Establishes approaches and directs and delegates as needed to execute.
Interacts with operational and departmental leadership. Works with leadership to define priorities and is frequently asked to support performance improvement work.
Begins to assume an active role in improvement efforts as a facilitator or improvement expert
Works autonomously within the work assignment. Coordinates the services for the assigned business units and provides oversight and work flow supervision to assigned staff.
Provides direct supervision to staff. Progress and success defined by goal attainment and the success of the entities or services they are assigned.
Works with leadership to define priorities and managing the deployment of performance improvement work. Coordinates the work of others to support the execution of plans.
Assumes an active role in the improvement efforts as a facilitator or improvement expert.
High attention to detail with the ability to research and resolve problems.
Ability to create executive summary reporting from extensive raw data reporting, including interpreting and creating recommendations.

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