Director, Strategy

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

3h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Health System Planning department plays a leading role in the development and expansion of UT Southwestern healthcare programs and facilities through a blend of strategic, financial, and operational planning/analysis. In the Director role, you will work as an individual contributor under minimal supervision to lead cross-functional teams by authoring strategic, financial, and operational plans that have an organizational impact on targeted programs/service lines and their long-term success, typically juggling several projects concurrently in an accountable and/or responsible role. In addition, you will have the opportunity to partner with key physician and administrative leaders to create a tangible impact on the Dallas-Fort Worth healthcare landscape. This is a hybrid role working 2-3 days a week in the office environment (Tuesdays and Thursday are highly preferred).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field
• 8 years of progressively responsible, related experience to include at least two (2) years in a leadership capacity.
• Financial Modeling: Experience independently developing financial models to forecast volume, payor mix, charges, reimbursement, operating expenses, capital investment, and return on investment (IRR, NPV, payback period, breakeven).
• Operational Modeling: Experience independently developing operational models to forecast resource requirements (i.e., workforce, equipment, facility, etc) and capacity utilization (i.e., productivity, midnight census, clinic, OR block, etc).
• Consulting: Experience providing data-driven advisory services to physician and administrative leaders in an academic medical center setting.
• Market Intelligence: Subject matter expertise with market claims data and industry best-practice research (i.e., DFWHC, THCIC, Advisory Board, Sg2).
• Data Analysis: Experience extracting, cleaning, and analyzing large financial and operational datasets from the enterprise data warehouse with minimal direct support from the finance or decision support organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Leads the planning process (i.e., strategic, financial, operational plans and analyses) in support of targeted programs and service lines.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop plans that have an organizational impact on targeted programs and services lines and their long-term success.
• Partners with colleagues, senior leaders, and other stakeholders to support the execution and implementation of plans.
• Partners with analytics team to develop automated dashboards that track key performance indicators from plans and provides regular status reports to leadership.
• Responsible for review, development, recommendation, and implementation related to assigned activities, programs, and functions.
• Responsible for the utilization of various resources to maintain maximum efficiency and meet performance objectives.
• Responsible for the design, execution, and effectiveness of a system of internal controls, which provides reasonable assurance that operations are efficient, assets are safeguarded, and recommendations are reliable.
• Ensures compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality as appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

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