When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
The Senior Project Manager, Value Analysis, leads cross-functional initiatives that optimize clinical quality, patient outcomes, and total cost of care across Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH). This role manages the end-to-end intake, evaluation, and implementation of clinical products – driving standardization and evidence-based decision making in partnership with clinicians, sourcing, finance, and operations. The ideal candidate combines rigorous project management with strong clinical/operational acumen and data fluency.
Job Description:
Essential Duties & Responsibilities, including but not limited to:
Value Analysis & Product Assessment
- Oversee the end-to-end product evaluation process: review new product requests (NPRs), coordinate trials, facilitate evaluations, and conduct product “look‑backs” to verify financial and clinical outcomes.
- Use data—costs, utilization, quality metrics, reimbursement data, PO history—to build clear financial‑clinical analyses and ROI/value justification.
- Facilitate clinician-led reviews using peer-reviewed literature, registries, and evidence platforms (e.g., Lumere/ECRI) to assess safety and efficacy.
- Design and oversee product evaluations/trials per policy, collaborating with Infection Prevention, Quality & Safety, BioMed, and Materials Management.
Project & Portfolio Management
- Manage a value analysis sub-committee. Owns a portfolio of value analysis projects from intake through implementation. Create project scope, detailed plans, timelines, budgets, risk, and change management strategies.
- Monitor execution, coordinate across departments, identify and resolve risks/blockers, escalate when needed, and measure progress against savings and quality targets.
Data & Financial Analysis
- Utilize the Physician Analytics Lumere tool to analyze variations in case costing, practice patterns, and implant preferences and drive cost savings through standardization.
- Analyze utilization, price, and outcomes data (Workday, MMIS/item master, inventory management system) to model total cost of ownership and savings.
- Build comparative analyses for PPI/implants and med-surg; quantify scenario impacts.
- Partner with Strategic Sourcing and GPO to align contract compliance and enable standardization and commitment tiers.
- Contribute to annual savings planning and category roadmaps.
Rebate Tracking & Reporting
- Collaborate with accounts receivable, sourcing, and vendors to ensure rebates received and distributed to proper cost centers in a timely manner.
- Maintain accurate rebate tracking logs; reconcile vendor reporting with internal purchasing data.
- Report rebate accruals, collections, and missed opportunities regularly to leadership; support forecasting and budget impact analyses.
- Monitor product rebate eligibility tied to GPO, local contracts, and vendor-specific commitments.
Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead clinician engagement, including value analysis committees and physician and nursing champions; resolve conflicts and drive consensus.
- Prepare and present findings, strategic recommendations, progress updates, and savings metrics.
- Plan cutovers (e.g., product conversions), coordinate education, go-live support, and sustainment monitoring.
- Manage communications during shortages, discontinuations, and product changes, ensuring stakeholders are informed and aligned.
Process Improvement
- Develop and implement standardized VA processes, internal SOPs, tools, dashboards, and training modules for consistent execution across the system.
- Reduce cycle time for NPRs, Workday item requests.
- Streamline workflows for efficient conversion process.
- Upload local contracts to systems to reduce pricing exceptions.
- Offer mentorship and guidance to junior analysts, coordinators, or project managers on VA methodology and project management best practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Supply Chain, Finance, Nursing, Surgical Technology, or related field required.
- Master’s degree (MHA, MBA, MPH) and/or clinical credential (RN, CST) preferred.
Licensure, Certification & Registration:
- CVAHP or CMRP
Experience:
- At least 2-4 years in supply chain, operations, value analysis, strategic sourcing, or project management in the healthcare industry.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
- Strong analytical capability, including advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI dashboard.
- Analytical problem solver with financial modeling skills and comfort with imperfect data.
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong stakeholder management and facilitation with physicians and clinical leaders.
- Expert project/program management; able to lead multiple high-stakes initiatives concurrently.
- Deep understanding of VA methodology: product review process, standardization, utilization, and contract alignment.
- Detail‑oriented, process‑driven with a continuous‑improvement mindset.
- High emotional intelligence, ability to influence across lines of authority, and build consensus.
- Contract and rebate literacy, with the ability to identify missed value.
- Change leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
Pay Range:
$90,000.00 USD – $130,000.00 USD
The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.
