Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

The Enterprise Information Services (EIS) team at Cedars-Sinai understands that true clinical transformation and the optimization of a clinical information systems implementation is fueled through the alignment of the right people, processes, and technologies.

Why work here?

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been ranked the #1 hospital in California and #2 hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, 2022‑23. When you join our team, you’ll gain access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities and advanced medical education programs. We offer learning programs, tuition reimbursement and performance-improvement projects so you can achieve certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career.

We take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees. Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff reflect the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing:

The Senior EIS Portfolio Manager, provides oversight and strategic support to hospital and medical network service lines, creating and sustaining effective demand, prioritization, and resource management. Provides leadership, mentorship, and direction for day-to-day IT operations and administrative activities across service lines, including the authority to make independent decisions regarding IT prioritization and management. Provides subject matter expertise in applications/systems, and ensures cross-functional integration of projects and assignments. Leads the long-term strategic planning, design, development, and implementation of service line technology objectives. May supervise staff as it relates to the overall technology management of the service line.

• Assesses, documents, and budgets potential projects; performs project resource planning; conducts continuous monitoring and reports on portfolio health and participates in the department’s change management process and staff training. Responsible for all aspects of a service line’s technology portfolio including conceptualization, scoping, prioritization, and activation of projects within the relevant service line.
• Coordinates with Enterprise PMO on management of large, strategic initiatives. Conducts ongoing portfolio review meetings with executives to establish a prioritized portfolio.
• Collaborates with relevant stakeholders to manage the processes of reviewing new requests, assessing project priority, including awareness of cross-portfolio dependencies and impacts, and making go / no-go recommendations to Executive Leadership.
• Leads consensus-building activities with end users, operational leaders, physicians, and designated staff to implement solutions and/or resolve issues that may involve multiple applications and/or technical teams. Helps set standards around domain expertise for all teams.
• Manages and uses the life cycle of a wide range of cross-departmental initiatives, investments, programs, projects, and outcomes to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.
• In conjunction with the PMO, identifies and leads cross-functional teams in the administration, maintenance, or expansion of application or infrastructure work.
• Provides oversight to program and project managers within the portfolio and quality assurance ensuring that initiatives are being well managed and adhering to appropriate standards and good practice.
• Develops an overall understanding of each initiative in the portfolio to understand the potential customer impact and service requirements generated by each initiative in the portfolio.
• Provides highest-level expertise in the development of portfolio and resource management standards that are scalable including planning, resource management, integration, and touchpoints with other service lines, projects, or cross-functional work.
• Supports the financial approval process and budget management process.
• Manages special projects (up to 10%): translating customer needs, meeting results, status reporting, and managing customer relationships and expectations.

Experience Requirements:

Seven (7) plus years of experience in portfolio, program, and/or project management with a successful project management track record in full life cycle information technology implementation projects, with a proven record of execution to time and budget. 

Two (2) plus years of Epic or other supporting software certified in relevant module preferred.

One (1) plus years of experience in healthcare IT portfolio or program management with the ability to manage large-scale IT systems implementations preferred.

Educational/Certification Requirements:

High School Diploma/GED.

Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare, Management, Business or related field, preferred.

PMP, PMI-ACP, and/or CSM Certifications preferred. 

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