Senior Customer Relations Manager - Strategic Access Support Team - Remote

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

1d • Remote

About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: Business Analysis and Solutions Development Job Summary: The Senior Customer Relations Manager (CRM) on the Strategic Access Support team serves as a strategic partner focused on identifying, analyzing, and resolving issues that ultimately impact patient access and experience. This role works cross-functionally to drive operational improvements, standardize workflows, and support system-wide access goals.

Requirements

• Project Communications (Advanced): Demonstrates the uppermost levels of expertise in conducting project communications in challenging and complex situations. Demonstrates ability to deliver complicated information effectively and efficiently, selecting the appropriate message for the audience. Facilitates open communication across functions and within unit. Able to highlight and emphasize major ideas, issues and points dramatically and effectively. Often takes a lead role in highly pressurized situations when there is a need to communicate critical project information. Consistently delivers project communications products and services in a creative and imaginative manner while setting a standard for others. Contributes in the development of project communications best practices for the organization.
• Project Issues Management (Advanced): Demonstrates the uppermost levels of expertise in resolving project issues in challenging and complex situations. Often takes a lead role in highly pressurized situations when there is a need to resolve high priority issues. Manages internal and external project issues in a way that bring disparate resources together to resolve issues and complete action items that contribute to the success of the project. Consistently delivers solutions in a creative and imaginative manner while setting a standard for others. Contributes in the development of best practices for Issues Management for the organization.
• Project Planning (Advanced): Demonstrates ability to forecast resource needs, identify and break work down into discrete and measurable tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, prepare acceptance criteria and organize work for large, complex projects requiring diverse functions and/or operations. Continuously monitors and follows up on buyins and commitments. Competently handles multiple projects simultaneously, balancing and scheduling tasks requiring dependencies and those which can be accomplished independently. Accurately estimates and plans complex projects and assignments. Maintains perspective between the overall picture and the details. Is proficient in the advanced features of project management tools.
• Project Coordination (Advanced): Manages interdependencies among multiple related and unrelated projects whose coordinated delivery is required to achieve higher organizational objectives. Identifies opportunities for cross-discipline participation. Develops and documents project policies and procedures. Manages the overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of major project efforts, ensuring that project goals and objectives are met within agreed upon time, scope, and resource requirements. Contributes to the development of Project Coordination best practices for the organization.
• Relevant Work Experience Experience Level: 5 years
• Education: Bachelor's

Nice To Haves

• Advanced Education: Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), Healthcare Administration (MHA), or a related field strongly preferred.
• Relationship Management: Demonstrated ability to build, manage, and sustain effective relationships with clinical leaders, operational partners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Trust & Credibility: Proven track record of establishing trust and credibility with clinical and operational leaders through consultative partnership.
• Attention to Detail: Highly detail-oriented with the ability to manage complex workflows, processes, and data inputs accurately.
• Business & Analytical Mindset: Ability to analyze data, identify gaps or trends, and translate insights into actionable recommendations—without a primary focus on data creation or number crunching.
• Patient Access Experience: Experience supporting patient access functions such as scheduling, referrals, registration, or access operations within a healthcare environment.
• EPIC Cadence Experience: Hands-on or consultative experience with EPIC Cadence, including scheduling workflows, templates, or optimization initiatives, strongly preferred.
• Workflow Optimization: Demonstrated ability to evaluate end-to-end workflows, identify inefficiencies, and design sustainable process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provides Leadership through relationship management providing strategic expertise
• Manages strategic partnerships with customers
• Performs needs analysis to define the problem that needs solving - both qualitative and quantitative
• Owns customer issue management and escalation, serving as main coordination point with customers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level