Strategic Planning Specialist

City of Hope

About The Position

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. The Strategic Business Planning Specialist provides vital support to the System Strategy Office by contributing to multiple workstreams (Business Planning, Market Intelligence & Planning, and Research Strategy) with purview across the entire system. Reporting to the System Vice President of Strategy Development and Business Planning, this role supports implementation of the System Strategic Plan by managing projects, leading cross-functional meetings, developing executive-ready decision materials, and providing analysis and market insights to inform strategic recommendations

Requirements

3+ years of experience within the healthcare industry with increasing levels of responsibility, including analytic, strategic, financial, business, or operational experience.
Healthcare strategic and program planning in a provider setting (academic medical center experience preferred); experience leading initiative development and managing projects.
Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills; demonstrated customer service; problem-solving ability, self-management, and initiative; ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships in a diverse team; ability to collaborate across system and entity business areas; ability to manage engagements and provide recommendations and decision support; organized, accountable, and able to work independently and within a team environment.
Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) and business intelligence/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SAS, Sisense).

Nice To Haves

academic medical center experience preferred

Responsibilities

Develop plans for creation and management of strategic initiative business planning engagements; manage day-to-day activities of business case/document development; conduct meetings with key cross-functional and cross-entity leaders/stakeholders/subject matter experts; contribute content to materials for review by executive leadership as part of governance process for new strategic initiatives.
Contribute to ad hoc strategic priority support across clinical and research verticals; lead projects aligned to the System Strategic Plan in support of single or multi-area business priorities to support key institutional priorities such as growth, quality, scientific discovery and translation, and strategic development.
Assist development of the strategic insights function within the System Strategy Office and support its ongoing organizational contribution via research, analysis, and market trend monitoring; produce regular reports and participate in readouts to key internal constituents.
Support market planning and growth via market analysis, analytic review, defining key takeaways and considerations, and development of associated materials.