Director, Reducing Hospitalization Transformation Project Office

Position:

Director, Reducing Hospitalization Transformation Project Office

Status:

Permanent Full Time

Department:

HealthWorks

Posted:

Monday March 09, 2026, closing on Friday March 20, 2026

Base Rate:

$140,016.55 - $210,024.83 (salary band placement commensurate with experience)

Reports To:

Executive Vice President of Performance and Planning & Chief Information and Analytics Officer

Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals, serving the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, the Reactivation Care Centre (Church Site) and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030, we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.

Position Overview: To realize THP’s strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030, there is a critical business need for a strategic integrator in the organization to steward key planning and project priorities that span the enterprise pertaining to Reducing Hospitalizations. We are seeking a leader with a high degree of capability to lead in this manner and to manage a skilled team and lead this integral role and function in the organization in partnership with key stakeholders.

The

Director of the Reducing Hospitalization Transformation Project Office

will provide advice, oversight and direction to develop and implement key priorities identified in THP’s corporate plan (e.g., Reducing Hospitalization Transformation Project, Capacity Planning & Bed Controllership). As the lead enterprise integrator, the Director of the Project Office will work in collaboration with stakeholders including but not limited to departments in the Performance, Information and Digital Services Division (Strategy Management Office, Reporting & Performance Analytics, Business Intelligence, AI, Innovation & Digital Planning, and IS/IT), Patient Care Services, Institute for Better Health, Quality, Risk, and Patient Experience Division, Financial Services, Public Affairs, Medical Affairs, Trillium HealthWorks, and People Services.

The Director of the Project Office will lead a skilled team and proactively build and maintain strong partnership across the enterprise to demonstrate the value of integrated planning and project management. The Director will work directly with Senior Leadership and their teams to provide advice and actively participate in decision making on key clinical and corporate priorities, identifying and presenting opportunities and strategies to improve hospital performance and major project success.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Performance and Planning & Chief Information and Analytics Officer and assigned to the Reducing Hospitalization Project with Executive Sponsors being the Chief Nursing Executive and EVP Patient Care Services and the Chief of Staff, the Director of the Project Office will:

Provide project leadership oversight as the director of the Project Office for the Reducing Hospitalization Transformation Project.

Lead all aspects of integrated project management for this transformation project across all project phases.

Integrate across clinical, operational, scientific and technological project workstreams to ensure alignment against project goals, scope, budget, timeline and outcomes.

Facilitate integrated planning with departments and teams outside of project structure to ensure alignment across corporate priorities.

Lead the development and implementation of standard tools and procedures to enable project success and specifically create a project playbook.

Provide strategic advice to project executive leadership on opportunities, risks and issues, and develop solutions and risk mitigation strategies, and monitor progress.

Provide visibility and leadership on project activities to ensure effective integrated planning and change management and to identify possible negative impacts of any change to support resolution and risk management.

Provide oversight of the multi-year capacity planning and bed controllership function for the enterprise.

Oversee controllership of key insights for bed and service changes and maintain the source of truth of such insights to enable multi-year capacity planning and operations management.

Lead the development and oversight of the organization’s multi-year capacity plan bridging to the Trillium Healthworks project and beyond while identifying risks, change management, and external relations needs inherent to large scale change.

Collaborate, in partnership with Performance Analytics, Finance, Trillium HealthWorks and Patient Care Services, on integrated planning priorities to ensure future state readiness for the Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital, the Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre and the Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children, specifically related to capacity and clinical service changes.

Enable a culture of integrated performance, planning and major project management by providing innovative ideas, analysis, direction and recommendation to Senior Team, Directors and Managers against key areas of opportunity and risk.

The Director of Reducing Hospitalization Transformation Project Office will require the following qualifications:

Master’s degree in a health, public administration or business-related field required.

Minimum of 5-10 years of relevant leadership experience in a healthcare or equivalent environment working with dynamic teams and managing complex, large-scale projects.

Experience working in and navigating complex circumstances and bringing clarity to cross functional teams during ambiguous situations.

Experience with development of transformation plans, large-scale change initiatives, project plans and business cases.

Proven project management expertise, especially related to digital and clinical large-scale projects, as well as demonstrated experience in corporate planning and performance management.

Strong business management skills (strategic planning, budgeting, resource allocation and analytics).

Enthusiastic, creative, and result-oriented leader with the ability to inspire and motivate people.

Excellent change management skills, with strong ability to coach and mentor team members and support partners through periods of significant change.

Demonstrated leadership skills with experience in building consensus at the strategic level; ability to initiate, build and foster effective relationships.

Demonstrated effectiveness at leading and working with high performing teams.

Prior working experience developing and implementing project plans, programs, support tools, and processes.

Effective interpersonal and negotiation skills, including outstanding written and verbal communications skills.

Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (e.g. PowerPoint, Excel, Project) with strong ability to lead the development of communications and presentation products tailored for various audiences including Board of Directors, senior leadership, frontline staff and government.

Notes to applicants If you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code to consider this opportunity.

Trillium Health Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a healthy, safe and respectful environment for healing, based on our values compassion, excellence and courage. To be Better Together, we commit to fostering a respectful workplace culture that promotes a safe and supportive environment for everyone who provides care, supports caregiving, receives care or visits the hospital.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities as required.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada. We would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Trillium Health Partners is recognized under the French Language Services Act.

Internal Candidates who believe they possess the necessary qualifications and experience for this position and who have been in their current position for at least six (6) months are encouraged to apply.

Our organization may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence (AI) or algorithm-assisted systems, to support the initial review of applications. These tools are used only to assist our recruiters and hiring managers; all hiring decisions include meaningful human involvement and final review.

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