Associate Director, Inpatient Applications (Epic certification in relevant module required)

Come join us and find out why Cedars-Sinai has been ranked as one of the top 100 best places to work in IT as ranked by 2018 Computerworld Magazine for the 10th year in a row!

You will be responsible for configuration and support of Inpatient Clinical, ED, HOD, Perioperative, and CS-Link Security applications. As an Associate Director, you will be a champion for all projects in your portfolio, lead optimization initiatives, facilitate communication with impacted stakeholders, develop resources, and manage the day-to-day activities of his/her team.

• Provides planning, analysis, leadership, and oversight of implementation, optimization, and support initiatives within the portfolio of applications.

• Manages the daily operations of assigned teams and is responsible for human resource activities, budgeting, recruiting, hiring, overall portfolio management, and staff supervision.

• Works jointly with project managers, application team managers, and other EIS groups to successfully implement cross functional projects and support departmental/organizational goals.

• Develops and maintains relationships, sets expectations, and communicates with departmental customers at the supervisor, manager, and director levels, as well as with physician, nursing, and clinical partner leadership.

• Collaborates with operational stakeholders to prioritize projects and optimization initiatives.

• Establishes team's development and training needs, conducts performance appraisals, determines team goals, supports professional growth opportunities, and accountable for well-being of team members.

• Coaches, mentors and leads the team to continuously improve application, technical, and professional capabilities.

• Oversees team adherence to established governance and departmental change control standards.

• Assesses and monitors employee satisfaction results and assists Senior Leadership in the execution of improvement action plans.

• Establishes standards of performance and productivity; determines staffing needs in conjunction with the appropriate leadership.

• Provides guidance and counseling to subordinate staff regarding employee relations matters. Promotes positive employee relations and resolves departmental problems.

• Assists in setting departmental strategic direction and tactical project planning. Implements short, medium, and long-range goals for the assigned area based on the goals of the organization and department in collaboration with appropriate leadership

• Provides resource requirements, risk assessments, impact analysis, and recommendations for newly requested projects within his/her technology and service line portfolio.

• Provides status reporting to senior EIS and operational leadership on project/optimization.

• Provides expert level understanding of operational workflows, synthesizes operational/project interdependencies, and applies recommendations.

• Develops and manages budgets.

• Manages vendor relations, service delivery, maintenance/support contracts, and invoicing.