Project Manager, Integration IV - Greater Central Coast Strategic Initiatives & Operational Excellence
Goleta, CAFull-time$129–194K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed 6 days ago
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This position plans and oversees complex projects and portfolios supporting integration and mergers and acquisitions initiatives across Sutter Health. It develops work plans, communication and risk management plans, workflow redesign, metrics, and return-on-investment analyses. The role leads cross-functional teams, coaches project managers and coordinators, identifies and escalates issues, and applies project management tools and standards to keep deliverables and integration efforts on track.
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We are so glad you are interested in joining Sutter Health!
Organization: SC - Sansum Clinic Position Overview: This position plans, organizes, monitors, and oversees highly complex projects and project portfolios in support of integration and/or mergers and acquisitions (M&A) initiatives across Sutter Health from conception to completion. Responsible for project work plan development, the establishment of project communication and risk management plans, workflow process redesign, metric development and return on investment analysis. Provides leadership to cross-functional teams, including overseeing the work of other project manager(s) and project coordinator(s) and providing coaching and mentorship. Performs independently under broad policy guidelines and exercises expert authority over assigned projects. Identifies and escalates issues to project sponsors/owners. Uses project management tools and standards as outlined by Sutter Health and the project management institute to ensure projects stay on track to complete deliverables and project integration with other initiatives. Job Description: EDUCATION:
- Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.
- Master's: Public Health (MPH), Hospital Administration (MHA) or Business Administration (MBA)
TYPICAL EXPERIENCE:
- 8 years recent relevant experience.
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
- Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities/projects simultaneously and meet tight, often conflicting deadlines.
- Thorough knowledge of health care delivery and quality improvement.
- Requires the ability to manage large and diverse teams to deliver results within specified timeframes.
- Ability to gain cooperation and support through effective use of influence and persuasion.
- Conceptual, analytical and negotiation skills are necessary, along with skills in solving complex problems and developing actionable recommendations.
- Skills and experience in solving complex problems and developing actionable recommendations.
- Must be able to maintain an organized approach, clarity of purpose, and goal orientation in a rapidly changing environment involving multiple stakeholders of various levels from throughout the organization.
- Must be detail oriented, self directed, and able to work autonomously with minimal supervision/intervention.
- Must demonstrate a customer service focus in all decisions and actions.
- Must demonstrate ability to cultivate a network within Sutter Health to gain support from senior leaders towards achieving organizational goals.
- Proficiency in spreadsheet, word processing, project management, and presentation applications.
- Exceptional verbal/ written communications and presentation skills to achieve desired outcomes.
Job Shift: Days Schedule: Full Time Days of the Week: Monday - Friday Weekend Requirements: Occasionally Benefits: Yes Unions: No Position Status: Exempt Weekly Hours: 40 Employee Status: Regular Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.
Pay Range is $129,188.80 to $193,793.60 / annual salary The posted pay range is based on the position's primary work location. Candidates who reside and work outside of that location may be subject to a different pay range based on their work location. Candidate starting salaries consider multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health’s comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.
How this job compares
Set against the 22,902 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$129–194K/yr
- California median$125–190K/yr1,391 salary ranges
- US median$107–175K/yr14,333 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $161K, is close to the California median midpoint ($163K) — in the middle half of Project Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,773 open Project Manager jobs in California and 22,902 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (19,689 postings).
- Education
- 12,403 of the 22,902 open Project Manager jobs (54%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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