Senior Director, Business Growth Operations

Surgery Partners•Brentwood, TN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director, Business Growth Operations provides strategic leadership and oversight for enterprise growth operations, enabling organizational expansion through data-driven decision-making, operational excellence, and scalable business processes. The role develops and executes growth operations strategy, optimizes systems and workflows, drives organizational performance, and informs executive decisions about growth initiatives. It partners with executive leadership to set growth priorities, evaluate market opportunities, allocate resources, and align business development, operations, finance, and other corporate functions. The position leads a team responsible for operational execution, analytics, reporting, technology optimization, and strategic initiatives supporting enterprise growth objectives. This is a hybrid position based at Surgery Partners’ corporate office in Brentwood, Tennessee, with on-site work required Monday through Wednesday. The work environment is a normal, busy office with substantial telephone work; long hours may be needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
Minimum 10–12 years of progressive leadership experience in growth operations, business operations, strategy, analytics, healthcare operations, or related disciplines.
Minimum 5 years leading leaders, managers, or multiple functional teams.
Experience partnering directly with executive leadership and influencing enterprise-level decisions.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale strategic initiatives, operational transformations, and organizational growth efforts.
Strong strategic planning, financial acumen, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage complex projects and lead cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Healthcare, or a related field is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the long-term Growth Operations strategy in alignment with organizational objectives.
Advise executive leadership on growth performance, business development opportunities, pipeline health, and operational effectiveness.
Establish departmental goals, priorities, and key performance indicators that support enterprise growth initiatives.
Identify and implement operational improvements, technology solutions, and process enhancements to increase scalability and organizational effectiveness.
Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve growth performance and drive business results.
Provide executive leadership with actionable insights and recommendations based on growth analytics, forecasting, and performance trends.
Partner with senior leaders to evaluate market opportunities, investment priorities, and growth strategies.
Present business performance results, risks, opportunities, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership.
Drive accountability for growth objectives through performance reporting and governance frameworks.
Direct the growth operating model, including systems, reporting, forecasting, process governance, and business intelligence.
Establish standards and best practices for growth operations, pipeline management, and performance measurement.
Oversee optimization and strategic utilization of Salesforce, Trilliant, and other growth-related technologies.
Ensure collaboration across Business Development, Operations, Finance, Recruiting, Marketing, and Analytics teams.
Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of managers and individual contributors.
Establish organizational structure, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent development strategies for the function.
Foster accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Oversee resource allocation and prioritization across strategic initiatives.
Develop and manage departmental budgets and resource planning activities.
Evaluate investments in technology, tools, and operational initiatives to maximize business outcomes.
Align resources with organizational growth priorities and strategic objectives.
Exercise discretion in setting priorities, operational strategies, and departmental objectives; recommend growth investments, operational changes, organizational structure, and strategic initiatives to executive leadership; and ensure execution and outcomes of enterprise growth operations strategies and programs.