Senior Vice President, Strategy and Transformation

AMSURG•Remote,

About The Position

The Senior Vice President (SVP) of Strategy & Transformation is a key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for defining, shaping, and driving the organization’s strategic vision and enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. This role partners closely with the Chief Development Officer and senior leaders to identify growth opportunities, optimize operational performance, and lead high-impact change across the business. The position owns key strategic initiatives across the Office of Strategy and Transformation portfolio, managing teams and other AMSURG resources to drive individual projects to completion while building capabilities across the team and helping manage the department’s project portfolio. This individual plays a leading role in setting the capability strategy for the enterprise and establishing the longer-term growth and partnership strategy in partnership with other executive leadership. The ideal candidate will be highly driven and have experience leading departments or organizations with high-stakes, high-visibility outcomes. The candidate must also have experience managing cross-functional teams and projects, strong communication and presentation skills, and the ability to think critically to resolve issues to move projects forward to meet target deadlines. Finally, the candidate should be passionate about building teams and organizations.

Requirements

15-20 years of post-MBA professional experience including post-MBA management consulting experience at a top-tier strategy consulting firm
Experience leading corporate strategy within the healthcare industry
Direct experience and working knowledge of the healthcare provider market landscape
Experience across growth strategy, transformation, and operations strongly preferred
Ability to execute, project manage, and implement across enterprise strategy
Superior critical thinking skills, including the ability to identify and define problems, collect data, establish facts and demonstrate a “nose for value” to discern what is important and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to run and manage highly complicated quantitative analysis in a defect-free manner to support strategic recommendations.
Demonstrated track record leading teams with strong upward feedback.
A bachelor’s degree is required
Exceptional academic credentials
Experience leading departments or organizations with high-stakes, high-visibility outcomes
Experience managing cross-functional teams and projects
Strong communication and presentation skills
Ability to think critically to resolve issues to move projects forward to meet target deadlines
Passionate about building teams and organizations
Creative, out-of-the-box thinker
Intellectually curious with a demonstrated interest in learning
Self-motivated, high-energy individual
Ability to easily function in a high demand, performance-driven environment
Accustomed to working on multiple tasks in parallel
Strong leadership skills, best demonstrated by the individual’s ability to gain credibility with team members and senior management
Modest in nature, recognizing the accomplishments of the team before the individual
Highly motivated and possess vision and enthusiasm
Comfortable acting as an individual contributor and as a team manager (Player/Coach)
Understand how to deliver on short time frames and be committed to meeting deadlines “no matter what”
Communicate in an open and honest way that quickly builds trust and respect
Possess an entrepreneurial spirit
Comfortable on his/her feet making presentations

Nice To Haves

ASC experience a plus
An MBA preferred

Responsibilities

Report to the AMSURG CDO and participate in executive discussion sessions, recurring executive leadership meetings, etc. – including project-specific report-outs as appropriate
Provide long- and short-term strategic planning and problem-solving leadership across the organization, including by serving as strategic advisor to other members of executive leadership upon request
Partner with other executive leaders, including the CEO, COO, and Business Development leader, to help develop and execute the multi-year enterprise strategy for AMSURG. This includes collaboration with internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels of seniority, including third-party partnerships, as they relate to growth and operations.
Partner with Operations, Development, and other corporate functions to set/prioritize geography-level growth & portfolio strategies, as well as lead in their execution where necessary through analytical efforts, thought partnership, and or project management
Oversee the building of the planning, coordination, and executive reporting capabilities
Lead the company’s effort to become a high-performing organization, including the ability to effectively communicate strategies and priorities, manage interdependencies, and drive toward accountability and execution
Support Board of Directors engagement & reporting for annual, quarterly, and ad hoc meetings in partnership with the General Counsel and other executive leadership as appropriate
Directly lead the CDO’s enterprise priorities by managing the CDO’s Chief of Staff and facilitating ongoing executive governance, meetings, report-outs, etc.
Lead the OST team in analyzing qualitative and quantitative data to inform project work and arrive at data-driven solutions
Lead the OST team in synthesizing and communicating status updates and recommendations directly to AMSURG senior leadership
Lead or support continuous improvement initiatives in operations and other verticals in support of continuous improvement & culture building within optimization.
Maintain a growth mindset and solutions-oriented attitude, bringing a proactive approach to moving projects forward
Develop and lead a tight-knit OST team to solve challenges at the department and enterprise level
Design and initiate new projects, identifying enterprise needs and shaping the OST portfolio
Develop the new Office of Strategy & Transformation into a high-performing, high-capacity team that can rapidly solve complex problems and drive forward key strategic initiatives for AMSURG
Direct management and oversight of 6-9 positions in the OST, including coaching and mentorship of practical consulting frameworks. This will include appropriately matching projects to personnel, assessing strengths and weaknesses, managing and assessing performance, and, secondarily, assisting in career development for those direct reports
Act as representative with external resources (i.e., consultants) as required
Manage OST engagements – manage the working team, including overseeing individual workstreams (providing support and coaching when needed), drive the team and project towards deliverables and milestones, synthesize insights and identify critical questions for executive engagement, request and apply resources appropriate to each engagement, etc.