Associate Director, APS Enterprise Planning
About The Position
The Associate Director, Enterprise Planning, supports U.S. Patient Services (APS) by leading enterprise planning, portfolio governance, capacity planning, and organizational coordination. The role creates frameworks, processes, and visibility to align strategic priorities with organizational capacity and enable effective decision-making across APS. Serving as the operational leader for the APS ALIGN intake and planning process, this role provides end-to-end portfolio visibility, facilitates leadership governance and prioritization, and ensures initiatives align with strategic objectives, available resources, and delivery capacity. It partners with APS leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate strategic direction into actionable priorities, manage dependencies and trade-offs, and drive execution of key commitments. The Associate Director advances APS portfolio management capabilities, maintains critical planning and reporting processes, and drives adoption of tools and ways of working that support transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, business operations, or enterprise program governance.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning and influence senior leaders without direct authority.
- Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and change leadership skills.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and facilitation capabilities.
- Experience developing governance frameworks, executive dashboards, and leadership reporting.
- Ability to translate complex organizational priorities into structured, actionable planning processes.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead processes and governance mechanisms that enable APS to identify, prioritize, manage, and communicate enterprise initiatives.
- Facilitate annual and ongoing strategic planning, translating enterprise objectives into aligned organizational priorities and initiatives.
- Establish and manage standardized intake, evaluation, prioritization, and governance for enterprise initiatives and emerging business needs.
- Maintain an integrated portfolio of enterprise priorities, including ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and progress against commitments.
- Develop and maintain a centralized dashboard showing strategic priorities, initiative status, milestones, and decisions.
- Facilitate portfolio reviews and governance discussions so leaders can evaluate trade-offs, resolve competing priorities, and make investment and sequencing decisions.
- Establish and facilitate integrated APS capacity planning so commitments account for functional resource availability and competing demands.
- Develop standardized capacity-planning approaches, tools, and cadences for functional leaders to assess capacity against enterprise priorities.
- Coordinate capacity planning across functional leaders and integrate assessments to identify organizational constraints, dependencies, and resource conflicts.
- Consolidate functional capacity inputs to provide enterprise visibility into anticipated demand, available capacity, and execution risks.
- Support leadership in evaluating prioritization, timing, and sequencing alternatives when demand exceeds available capacity.
- Facilitate capacity-planning discussions, set expectations for timely and accurate inputs, and maintain functional leaders' accountability for their resource allocation and capacity management.
- Lead organizational planning processes and coordination mechanisms that support collaboration, communication, and operational continuity across APS.
- Establish and coordinate standardized onboarding for new team members and leaders, integrating them into APS structures, priorities, governance processes, and ways of working.
- Oversee governance and maintenance of organizational distribution lists, stakeholder directories, and communication structures.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment within and across teams, clarifying roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and organizational interfaces.
- Establish and coordinate organizational planning calendars, leadership touchpoints, and information-sharing mechanisms.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize organizational planning, reduce administrative complexity, and improve the employee and leadership experience.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees.
- 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
