• This role oversees new contract start-up and integration activity at the enterprise-level, ensuring strategic alignment, cross-functional coordination, and readiness for anesthesia services on Day 1. • Project management • Independently design and drive project plans for each start-up, with an eye to stakeholder buy-in, communication, and efficiency • Personally manage project activities, including meeting coordination and agendas, follow-up notes, communication plans, deliverable creation, and project updates to stakeholders • Manage external client communication and stakeholder management from Business Development hand-off to go-live • Identify barriers and risks to success; independently mitigate them as appropriate, and escalate to the executive team as needed • Create and execute on risk-mitigation strategies and/or facilitate changes in strategy when barriers arise • Create systems to monitor and evolve business processes to scale the start-up function across the enterprise • Accountable for results • Accountable for the operational and clinical success of start-ups and go-lives • Ensure anesthesia services are transitioned safely and effectively to NorthStar on day one • Accountable for clear executive and internal communication, as well as risk escalation/mitigation • Accountable for managing client expectations throughout the start-up period • Codify Processes • Build on and refine existing project planning and project management tools for the start-up process • Make recommendations to individual departments and functions on process enhancements, communication strategy, project management tools and deliverable(s)