Jobs at Northwestern Medicine

Performs hospital supply chain logistics activities, including inventory ordering, replenishment, receiving, equipment, linen, mail, supply delivery, audits, and discrepancy resolution. Uses WaveMark and PeopleSoft to maintain accurate inventory data, supports par levels and compliance, responds to internal customer needs, identifies shortages and process issues, and contributes to continuous improvement. The role requires effective communication, organization, independent problem-solving, and rotating weekend and holiday availability.

Leads healthcare process improvement and project management initiatives, facilitating teams, applying change management methods, analyzing data, developing performance measures, coaching leaders, and supporting training on improvement methodologies.

Manages a regional healthcare simulation program and the Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital simulation center. Oversees daily operations, equipment maintenance, inventory, scheduling, budgets, accreditation compliance, facilitator collaboration, curriculum development, standardized patient coordination, and simulation educator training. Ensures consistent, evidence-based simulation experiences across hospitals while providing technical support and planning equipment and technology upgrades.

Manages infrastructure cloud services and a systems team across cloud, on-premises, and virtualized environments. Oversees troubleshooting, root cause analysis, architecture stability, systems integration, project delivery, budgets, vendor contracts, service levels, and staff development. Provides technical guidance, coordinates systems planning, supports Agile delivery, manages infrastructure upgrades, and presents to organizational and industry stakeholders.

Designs, configures, integrates, and delivers cloud infrastructure, primarily in Microsoft Azure. Automates infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Terraform, CI/CD, Git, scripting, and container orchestration technologies. Monitors performance and capacity, manages cloud security and connectivity, supports Kubernetes and hybrid environments, troubleshoots infrastructure issues, collaborates with project and application teams, provides technical leadership, and participates in on-call support.

Maintains employee payroll records by collecting, calculating, and entering payroll data. Processes hiring, termination, earnings, withholding, and employee changes; prepares payroll reports; balances earnings and deductions; resolves discrepancies; answers payroll questions; protects confidential information; and supports payroll and finance special projects.

Own the product vision, roadmap, backlog, and feature prioritization for healthcare information systems. Collaborate with analysts, architects, developers, analytics teams, and stakeholders through Agile and Scrum processes. Translate business requirements into user stories, ensure regulatory and quality compliance, monitor healthcare trends and user feedback, and continuously optimize the product to meet organizational goals.

A 12-week summer internship providing undergraduate students with hands-on healthcare supply chain experience. Interns complete assigned projects, learn hospital operations, collaborate with staff and management, participate in professional development sessions, and receive mentorship and coaching from supply chain leadership. The role requires flexibility across team or site placements and supports project-based work designed to build professional and supply chain management skills.

Provides technical leadership for healthcare computing systems, systems integration, connectivity, capacity analysis, and Tier 3 support. Reviews technology projects, develops technical specifications and project plans, implements system changes, establishes LAN standards, maintains documentation, and mentors team members. Requires expertise in Microsoft technologies, Azure, Power BI, Fabric, Power Platform, SQL, REST APIs, and healthcare systems support. Includes hybrid onsite work and rotational 24-hour on-call support.

Assists with security alert investigation, incident response, vulnerability and threat management, risk evaluation, security control optimization, and endpoint protection. The role analyzes information security gaps, assesses incident severity, supports remediation of vulnerabilities, investigates fraud and computer issues, and maintains security documentation and processes. It also collaborates with vendors, network teams, and internal departments to improve organizational cyber resilience and safeguard information assets.

Coordinates employee programs across the health system by managing inquiries, supporting improvement projects, developing reports and metrics, building data process solutions, and providing administrative support. The role requires strong communication, analytical, organizational, and collaboration skills, along with the ability to travel to designated locations.

Maintains and integrates hardware systems, operating systems, connectivity, and distributed IT infrastructure. Analyzes performance and capacity, leads upgrades, resolves technical issues, supports application and technology projects, develops technical specifications and project plans, establishes networking standards, coordinates with vendors, and mentors team members. Provides customer support, technical leadership, system integration expertise, and required on-call coverage.