Details Department:  Labor ManagementSchedule:  Full-timeLocation:  Austin, TX
Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community

 

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Position Summary: Develops, manages, and executes market-wide labor management and productivity procedures and strategies. Acts as a labor management leader for select market ministries in support of companywide standardization initiatives for routine labor management practices and other operational/financial improvement initiatives. Strategically plan the activities of the ministry aimed toward meeting those strategic goals and labor management and productivity targets.

Responsibilities:

Leads and owns strategic initiatives for labor management that align with the national, market, and hospital labor goals, objectives, and processes.Develop and implement strategies to control labor costs while maintaining or improving productivity and quality.Provide strategic direction on labor management needs to senior market leadership and collaborates with facility executives and department managers to continually improve productivity results and secure the most cost-effective resources to meet those needs.Maintains associated infrastructure to ensure operational and business continuity as well as to guarantee accuracy and timeliness of data flow, collaboration with business analysts who support the systems.Ensures accuracy of volume forecasts, controls target requirements, manages stakeholder and business demands, assesses and implements appropriate resource utilization.Manages and directs labor resources that provide specialized labor management and productivity support to ministry markets around routine practices and other operational/financial improvement initiatives.Develops market-wide strategic plans for labor management, premium pay, contract labor and overall labor expense management.Compile and analyze labor data to identify trends, issues, and opportunities for improvement. Use data to make informed recommendations to leadership.Follows and promote Ascension standard processes and tools to ensure consistency across the organization.Support training and development initiatives for associates to promote labor management literacy and improve productivity management.Partners with market leadership and finance during the annual budget process and implements productivity changes as needed.Perform other duties and projects as assigned and as needed
Requirements

Education:

High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience
required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's
degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years
being in leadership/management.
Additional Preferences 5 years of experience required.7 years of experience preferred.2 years of leadership or management experience required.5 years of leadership or management experience preferred.
Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

 

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

 

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

 

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

 

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