Manager, Transformation

Job summary

The Manager leads high-impact strategic initiatives to advance organizational strategy while promoting clinical excellence and evidence-based innovation. They act as a trusted advisor to leadership, fostering partnerships and managing complex projects to ensure measurable and scalable improvements in patient care.

Job details

Reporting to the Director, Transformation, the Manager plays a key leadership role in advancing HHS’ Organizational Strategy. In this role, the Manager will guide high impact strategic initiatives, exercising the right balance between facilitation and authority to progress the work. Throughout the work, they will promote clinical excellence, continuous learning, and evidence-based innovation, ensuring progress is measurable, scalable and meaningful. Drawing on extensive healthcare experience and business acumen, the Manager navigates seamlessly between diverse projects and groups, identifying integration opportunities, assessing organizational capacity, gathering inclusive input and evaluating organization risks. The Manger will also lead the development of proposals and submissions that support HHS, the local community and the Ontario West region while fostering working relationships with provincial ministries, municipalities and private-sector partners. The Manager will work closely with HHS’ Senior Leadership Team, clinical and non-clinical leaders, physicians, and front-line teams, acting as a trusted advisor and utilizing clinical and operational expertise to positively influence behaviours across the organization and advance our shared commitment to the delivery of high-quality patient care. 1. Five years of formal leadership in a clinical setting 2. Five years of relevant clinical experience in a healthcare setting 3. Graduate of a regulated healthcare professional program and registration with a designated college. 4. Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred, as well as a combination of LEAN, PMP, CMA, CPA 5. Knowledge of regional/provincial/national health care system and interaction of system within the clinical programs 6. Knowledge of relevant legislation, e.g. Public Health Act, Personal Health Information Protection Act, Professional/College/Association requirements and standards 7. Experience managing, coaching and developing others (formal & experiential). 8. Knowledge of budgeting processes and ability to analyze fiscal and patient care data (formal & experiential) 9. Awareness of program planning, standards development and program evaluation (formal & experiential) 10. Strong business acumen; general understanding of business principles and how they apply to the unit’s operational needs (formal & experiential). 11. System-based understanding of healthcare operations to form linkages, cross-functional impacts and opportunity identification 12. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and complex initiatives and to implement proposals and projects within established timeframes and targets 13. Ability to manage project actions plans, ensure appropriate frameworks and risk registries are in place, established terms of reference and resource requirements 14. Expertise in understanding operational excellence, quality improvement, change management and process redesign concept include lean/six sigma 15. Significant financial literacy and understanding of operational and financial implications of initiatives 16. Diplomacy and tact in leading at times uncomfortable conversations and reviews while aligning multiple perspectives to actionable initiatives and outcomes 17. Excellent communication (verbal/written), strong interpersonal and client service skills 18. Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders 19. Strong leadership abilities and work effectively in a team oriented environment 20. Ability to create, implement and monitor project charters, targets, schedules, communication plans and other documents as required 21. Ability to work independently, organize workload, manage time and prioritize tasks

What you’ll do

The Manager leads high-impact strategic initiatives to advance organizational strategy while promoting clinical excellence and evidence-based innovation. They act as a trusted advisor to leadership, fostering partnerships and managing complex projects to ensure measurable and scalable improvements in patient care.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least five years of formal leadership and clinical experience in a healthcare setting, along with registration with a designated healthcare college. A Master’s degree is preferred, and proficiency in methodologies like LEAN, PMP, or financial management is highly valued.

Listed skills

• Clinical Operations · Preferred
• Change Management · Preferred
• Budgeting · Preferred
• Data analysis · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred
• Lean · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Strategic leadership
• Clinical operations
• Change management
• Process redesign
• Lean
• Six sigma
• Project management
• Financial literacy
• Budgeting
• Data analysis
• Stakeholder management
• Risk management
• Program planning
• Communication
• Diplomacy
• Business acumen
• Influencing Skills
• Continuous Development
• Tactfulness
• Healthcare Industry Knowledge
• Organizational Strategy
• Clinical Experience
• Influencing Without Authority
• Planning
• Quality Improvement
• Business Acumen
• Business Process Reengineering
• Change Management
• Customer Service
• Training And Development
• Drawing
• Financial Literacy
• Leadership
• Scalability
• Innovation
• Lean Manufacturing
• Lean Six Sigma
• Project Management
• Operational Excellence
• Operations
• Program Evaluation
• Public Health Laws
• Coaching
• Time Management
• Team Oriented
• Prioritization

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Management & Leadership
• Consulting
• Finance & Accounting
• Transformation Manager
• Project Manager (General)
• Management and Organization Analysts
• Project Management Specialists