Senior Strategy & Planning Program Director

Banner Health • Phoenix, AZ

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Banner Health is seeking a Senior Strategy & Planning Program Director to build and lead a team responsible for strategic plan development and management. This role will identify growth opportunities, optimize performance in partnership with operating teams, and ensure alignment with enterprise strategies. The position offers a hybrid, full-time schedule (days, 8 AM - 5 PM) within Banner Health Corporate, supporting a nationally recognized healthcare leader across various disciplines. The role provides expertise for strategic growth objectives in acute care, ambulatory services, medical groups, insurance, academic operations, post-acute services, innovation/tele-health, and research. Strategic planning and development efforts encompass capital planning, service line strategy, market analytics, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures/partnerships. The Director will lead these efforts in collaboration with Banner executives, developing business cases, conducting due diligence, and preparing recommendations for senior leadership approval.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, healthcare administration or related field.
• Five years of healthcare planning and/or process management and operations experience.
• Strong logic, conceptual, analytical, quantitative, and statistical skills to analyze and define opportunities for hospital growth.
• Strong executive presence with written, verbal, and presentation skills that enable the candidate to effectively communicate with all levels within the organization, as well as present findings and recommendations to senior and executive leaders.
• Strong organizational and project management skills to effectively direct and manage multiple comprehensive business plans simultaneously.
• Expertise in the full Microsoft Office Suite of business applications.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Health system and/or health plan experience highly desirable.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directs and manages processes relating to strategic planning and product/service development, including the development of goals, service line strategies, capital business plans, and operational plans.
• Works with internal stakeholders and external entities to build and establish relationships with potential short and long-term partners. Manages processes related to new business ventures, including the identification of strategic partners, development of partnership objectives, evaluation of opportunities, and preparation of partnership/program business plans. Assists in the implementation of new programs, potentially including start-up, initial operations, performance tracking and ongoing post-implementation “make good” evaluation.
• Provides strategic context-setting across the organization, including translation of system strategy to regional / entity-level operational leaders. Educates system leaders on entity-level opportunities. Acts as an organization channel for vetting and communicating recommendations and results of system initiatives and business strategies.
• Provides strategic advisement and subject matter expertise to senior leaders across the organization. Analyzes, defines the market, and provides recommendations for growth opportunities across the care continuum using data from various quantitative and qualitative primary and secondary resources, including: market demographic and economic research, retail strategies, consumer demand studies, feasibility studies, scenario modeling, industry intelligence, operational feasibility, and risk analyses.
• Leads and continually improves strategic planning processes and toolkits including: analytical models, financial impact assessments, operational metrics / benchmarks, and due diligence methodologies. Evaluates and improves strategic planning and product/service development processes, assumptions and outcomes on an ongoing basis.
• Partners with senior executives and other key leaders on RFP processes, including the evaluation, creation, production, and submission of Requests for Proposals. Provides decision support, advisement, and technical expertise to leadership and management.
• Maintains a current professional and technical knowledge relating to the market, healthcare, planning and marketing by attending educational workshops/conferences, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Provides leadership for strategic planning processes and product/service development initiatives of the operating entities across the organization. Partners with senior leadership across the corporate division and the operating entities. Functions independently and must be able to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.

Benefits

• Opportunity to apply unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader.
• Stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines.
• Options for contributing to award-winning patient care.

What This Job Offers

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