Executive Director - Clinical Operations (Arizona)
About The Position
The Executive Director, Regional Operations serves as the operational leader and strategic partner to the Regional Vice President, driving performance improvement, operational excellence, and growth across a portfolio of ophthalmology practices. This executive-level role provides hands-on leadership to markets requiring operational stabilization, leadership support, performance acceleration, or strategic transformation. The ideal candidate is a highly accomplished healthcare operations executive with extensive multi-site practice management experience, strong financial acumen, and a proven ability to lead through influence, ambiguity, and change while delivering measurable business results.
Requirements
- Significant multi-site physician practice management experience.
- Ability to travel extensively throughout the assigned region (60–75%).
- Demonstrated success leading turnaround, recovery, and performance-improvement initiatives.
- Strong financial, operational, and analytical skills.
- Proven ability to influence physician leaders and build collaborative partnerships.
- Experience leading organizations through change, growth, and transformation.
- Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive healthcare operations leadership experience.
- Ophthalmology practice management experience.
- Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) operations experience.
- Retina, glaucoma, or other surgical specialty experience.
- Experience within a private equity-backed healthcare organization.
- Mergers and acquisitions integration experience.
- Lean, Six Sigma, or other process improvement training.
- Advanced data analytics and performance management expertise.
Nice To Haves
- MBA, MHA, or related advanced degree.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary operational partner to the Regional Vice President across assigned markets.
- Lead operational assessments to identify performance gaps, opportunities, and risks.
- Develop and execute market-specific action plans that drive sustainable operational and financial improvement.
- Provide executive leadership and stabilization support for underperforming practices and markets.
- Ensure consistent execution of organizational priorities, operational standards, and strategic initiatives.
- Monitor key performance metrics and proactively address operational challenges before they impact results.
- Function as interim operational leadership during leadership transitions when necessary.
- Leverage operational and financial data to identify opportunities, remove barriers, and improve overall business performance related to revenue growth, EBITDA, labor productivity, expense management and utilization.
- Build leadership capability throughout the region by coaching, developing and recruiting high performing teams.
- Promoting a culture of operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate effectively with corporate and regional functional teams, including Finance, HR, Marketing, Managed Care, RCM, Supply Chain, IT and Contact Center Operations.
- Lead and support regional initiatives related to: New physician onboarding and productivity ramp-up, Referral growth and optimization, Patient access improvement, Capacity planning and utilization, Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) performance, Retina and glaucoma service line growth, Interventional ophthalmology adoption, Drug utilization optimization, Patient recall and reactivation programs, Acquisition due diligence, Post-acquisition integration, Market expansion and growth strategies, Deployment of operational best practices
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
