Manager, Capital & Equipment Planning

Endeavor Health•Skokie, IL

About The Position

The Manager, Capital & Equipment Planning owns capital and equipment planning and disposal for Endeavor Health’s in-house HTM program. The role builds and maintains a rolling five-year medical-equipment replacement plan across the hospitals, runs the annual capital prioritization cycle, and leads pre-purchase planning for major equipment investments. It partners with Finance, Supply Chain, service-line leadership, and the CE analytics team to ensure investments are data-driven and deliver clinical and financial value. The manager also leads the Asset Investment Recovery (AIR) team, which recovers and dispositions assets retired through the replacement plan. This position is full-time, based in Skokie with systemwide coverage, and operates during regular daytime hours. Periodic travel to Endeavor sites is required. It is currently available only to current Sodexo and Trimedx employees.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Healthcare Administration, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
At least 7 years in HTM, healthcare capital planning, or medical-equipment lifecycle management.
Demonstrated experience building capital plans or business cases for medical-equipment investment, including experience leading staff or an operational function.
Knowledge of medical-equipment lifecycle and total-cost-of-ownership concepts; medical-equipment disposition and data-sanitization requirements, including ePHI purging; capital budgeting and prioritization processes in a health system; CMMS and asset data.
Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
Strong financial and analytical modeling skills.
Clear written and verbal communication with clinical, financial, and executive audiences.
Cross-functional project coordination skills.
Ability to translate asset and financial data into actionable multi-year plans and balance competing site priorities objectively.
Availability for periodic travel to Endeavor sites.
Ability to lead, develop, and hold accountable a small operational team.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the rolling five-year medical-equipment capital replacement plan using asset age, condition, utilization, supportability, and total-cost-of-ownership data.
Run the annual capital prioritization cycle by gathering site and service-line requests, scoring and ranking them against enterprise criteria, and preparing funding recommendations for CE leadership and Finance.
Lead the Asset Investment Recovery function through the Supervisor, AIR; set priorities, develop staff, manage performance, and perform full HR responsibilities for the team.
Ensure retired assets are dispositioned compliantly, including verified purging of ePHI from all medical equipment.
Partner with the Clinical Engineer, Data Analyst, and Financial Analyst on scoring criteria, forecasting models, and NPV/TCO analysis supporting capital decisions.
Lead pre-purchase planning for major replacements, including vendor quotes, trade-in and disposition strategy, installation and infrastructure requirements, and replacement timelines.
Drive equipment standardization with service-line leaders and Supply Chain; maintain preferred-platform and sole-source strategies.
Support medical-equipment planning and budgeting for construction, renovation, and merger/acquisition integration projects.
Monitor plan execution by tracking approved capital through procurement, installation, and disposition of replaced assets; report variances and maintain capital-planning documentation and presentations for leadership committees.