AVP RISK PREVENTION & MGMT -FT, FCH - OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL

Froedtert • Menomonee Falls, WI

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Associate Vice President, Risk Prevention and Management
Froedtert ThedaCare Health
Location: Menomonee Falls, WI or Neenah, WI (Hybrid)
Bring Your Leadership in Risk Prevention, Patient Safety, and Organizational Resilience to One of Wisconsin's Largest Integrated Health Systems
At Froedtert ThedaCare Health, we are seeking an accomplished healthcare leader to serve as our Associate Vice President, Risk Prevention and Management. This is a unique opportunity to combine strategic leadership, operational influence, and mission-driven impact within one of the Midwest's leading nonprofit integrated health systems. This role will help shape the enterprise approach to risk prevention, claims management, patient safety collaboration, and organizational learning across a complex, multi-entity healthcare organization serving communities throughout Wisconsin.
Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs, the AVP, Risk Prevention and Management leads the enterprise Risk Prevention and Management function and serves as a key member of the legal leadership team. The AVP provides strategic oversight of risk prevention, event response, claims administration, litigation support, insurance programs, and organizational risk integration and mitigation efforts while partnering closely with executive leaders, operational teams, clinical leaders, and key stakeholders across the health system.
As a trusted advisor to senior leadership, this role offers significant visibility and influence in system decision-making, patient safety initiatives, operational excellence, and organizational transformation. The AVP plays an integral role in strengthening a culture of safety, accountability, transparency, and continuous learning while supporting the organization's High Reliability Organization (HRO) journey.
The AVP is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team of risk management, claims, insurance, and risk prevention professionals while driving excellence in risk management practices, organizational learning, and performance improvement. This leader will help strengthen a system-wide function supporting multiple hospitals, physician organizations, ambulatory sites, and affiliated entities across Wisconsin.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum eight (8) to ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare risk management, claims management, patient safety, legal affairs, insurance administration, healthcare operations, or a related field.
• Minimum five (5) years of leadership experience leading teams, programs, or functions within a complex healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of professional liability claims management, healthcare operations, patient safety principles, insurance programs, and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives involving multidisciplinary stakeholders and complex organizational structures.
• Demonstrated success mentoring and developing professionals while leading organizational change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance patient safety, legal risk, operational priorities, financial stewardship, and organizational objectives.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, relationship-building, influencing, and executive leadership skills.
• Candidates will be required to reside and work within Froedtert ThedaCare Health's Wisconsin expansive service area.

Nice To Haves

• Juris Doctor (JD) or Master's degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA), Nursing, Risk Management, Business Administration, Public Health, or a related field.
• Experience supporting integrated health systems, healthcare organizations, academic medical centers, or similarly complex organizations.
• Experience overseeing professional liability, general liability, captive insurance, excess insurance, and risk financing programs.
• Knowledge of High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles, patient safety methodologies, event review processes, and performance improvement frameworks.
• Experience partnering with legal counsel, insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and external service providers on claims and litigation matters.
• Proven ability to lead change, improve organizational performance, and develop high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated success implementing organization wide risk management, process improvement, governance, technology, and service delivery innovations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise Risk Prevention and Management program across the health system, ensuring consistent integration, alignment, and standardization of risk prevention and management practices across hospitals, clinics, physician organizations, and business entities.
• Establish system-wide risk prevention strategies, priorities, and performance expectations that support organizational objectives, strengthen a culture of safety, and advance the system's High Reliability Organization (HRO) journey.
• Identify emerging legal, regulatory, operational, clinical, financial, and reputational risks and develop proactive mitigation strategies that reduce exposure and strengthen organizational resilience.
• Provide executive leadership support and guidance regarding serious safety events, disclosure practices, event reviews, root cause analyses, and risk mitigation strategies that promote learning, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the investigation, evaluation, management, and resolution of professional liability, general liability, workers' compensation, and other claims while ensuring consistent processes and organizational learning.
• Develop and monitor risk management metrics, dashboards, benchmarking, performance indicators, and reporting frameworks that support informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Provide executive oversight for professional liability, general liability, captive insurance, excess insurance, and other enterprise insurance programs.
• Partner with internal and external legal counsel regarding claims, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and complex risk-related matters.
• Oversee claims management processes, reserve strategies, vendor relationships, outside experts, and third-party service providers.
• Analyze claim and loss trends to identify opportunities for system-wide learning, risk reduction, process improvement, and cost containment.
• Lead the development and implementation of standardized risk management policies, procedures, workflows, and best practices across regions and entities.
• Partner with Quality, Patient Safety, Compliance, Human Resources, Medical Staff Leadership, and Operations leaders to improve organizational outcomes and strengthen enterprise risk management capabilities.
• Lead enterprise education and training programs focused on risk awareness, patient safety, disclosure practices, event response, and loss prevention.
• Foster a collaborative, service-oriented culture focused on accountability, innovation, organizational learning, and high performance.

Benefits

• The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin regional health network is a partnership between Froedtert Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin supporting a shared mission of patient care, innovation, medical research and education. Our health network operates eastern Wisconsin's only academic medical center and adult Level I Trauma center engaged in thousands of clinical trials and studies. The Froedtert & MCW health network, which includes ten hospitals, nearly 2,000 physicians and more than 45 health centers and clinics draw patients from throughout the Midwest and the nation.

What This Job Offers

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