ED, Strategy, Performance & Growth

City of Hope•Goodyear, AZ

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Executive Director, Strategy, Growth & Performance serves as the senior strategy and growth leader for the entity, responsible for translating enterprise strategic priorities into local market execution while advancing sustainable growth, business development, market expansion, and measurable performance outcomes. This role connects system strategy with entity-level priorities by developing market-informed growth plans, identifying new business and partnership opportunities, evaluating investment priorities, and driving initiatives that expand patient access, strengthen referral channels, improve competitive positioning, and support long-term financial and operational sustainability. Operating within a hybrid system model, the Executive Director partners with system strategy leadership, entity executives, physician leaders, and operational partners to build a disciplined approach to strategy execution, growth planning, and value realization.The role is accountable for ensuring that local market opportunities, service line expansion, strategic partnerships, affiliations, and business development activities are aligned with enterprise governance and investment standards and are tracked against defined outcomes such as market share growth, referral volume, patient access, service line performance, financial contribution, operational readiness, initiative milestones, and realized strategic value.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Finance, or related field.
10 years of experience in healthcare strategy, planning, or operations
7 or more years in a leadership or management role within complex provider organizations

Responsibilities

Develop entity strategic plan and multi-year roadmap.
Ensure system/entity strategy alignment, mapping entity priorities, growth initiatives, investment proposals, and execution plans to enterprise strategic priorities, IFSP requirements, and measurable value realization outcomes.
Develop entity-level investment proposals and business cases.
Create local market growth plan identifying priority service lines, geographic opportunities, referral channel opportunities, access gaps, competitor dynamics, and growth targets.
Manage strategic initiative portfolio and execution plans.
Develop and manage a strategic partnership, affiliation, and business development pipeline with opportunity stages, sponsors, decision milestones, financial assumptions, risks and expected impact.
Conduct partnership and affiliation opportunity assessments evaluating strategic fit, market need, financial return, operational readiness, regulatory considerations, and implementation risk.
Develop business cases for growth investments, including market rationale, volume assumptions, capital and resource needs, ROI, timeline, dependencies, and value realization measures.
Create service line expansion plans defining target populations, access model, physician alignment, capacity requirements, projected volume growth, and performance metrics.
Develop and implement a referral and physician alignment strategy to strengthen referral relationships, improve network connectivity, and support market share growth.
Create a market access and ambulatory growth roadmap outlining opportunities to expand points of care, improve patient access, and support entity growth objectives.
Conduct competitive market assessments and opportunity analyses.
Provide strategic partnership, affiliation, and M&A recommendations with clear decision criteria, governance path, risks, and implementation considerations.
Develop and maintain a growth performance dashboard tracking referral volume, patient access, market share, service line volume, contribution margin, initiative milestones, and realized value.
Prepare quarterly growth and business development reviews summarizing pipeline activity, approved opportunities, stalled initiatives, risks, decisions needed, and progress against growth targets.