Vice President, Clinical Enterprise Medical Affairs
About The Position
Lead enterprise-wide transformation of medical affairs and provider governance, partnering directly with executive clinical leadership to shape a high-performing, unified provider platform across Memorial Health. This is a rare opportunity to drive system-level impact while elevating quality, strengthening provider engagement, and standardizing clinical excellence across both employed and affiliated clinicians. The Vice President of Clinical Enterprise Medical Affairs will provide enterprise leadership and strategic direction for medical affairs operations, provider governance, and system-wide provider management for both employed and non‑employed clinicians within Memorial Health. The VP ensures alignment between clinical governance, provider operations, quality and safety, and organizational strategy by overseeing the Medical Affairs Office (MAO), credentialing, provider contracting, onboarding, peer review frameworks, and provider engagement programs. This role partners closely with the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO), Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), Clinic Operations, and provider advisory councils to develop and operationalize enterprise standards that strengthen clinical performance, reduce variation, and support a unified provider platform across the system.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in healthcare administration, Business Administration, Public Health, or related field OR advanced medical degree (MD, DO).
- Minimum of ten (10) years progressive leadership experience in clinical operations and physician/provider partnership.
- Minimum of three (3) years experience in provider engagement, development, recruitment, contracting, or credentialing.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex governance processes, audits, and provider relations.
- Strong communication and relationship‑building skills.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively across matrixed clinical and operational structures.
- Expertise in regulatory oversight, quality governance, and provider practice infrastructure.
- Proven ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity and change while maintaining trust, transparency and accountability.
- Strong personal and professional commitment to Memorial Health System’s mission, vision, values and culture.
Nice To Haves
- Lean Six Sigma (LSS) or equivalent process improvement certification strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provides enterprise leadership for all non‑clinical provider components and Medical Affairs operational functions.
- Oversees governance of provider contracts, payments, compensation evaluations, time‑management structures, including call contracts and Medical Director Agreements.
- Establishes aspirational goals for the medical staff and leads enterprise medical staff communications.
- Partners with Quality, Informatics, and Operations to create and enforce standards of practice for all providers across Memorial Health.
- Provides executive oversight for credentialing and the Credentialing Verification Organization (CVO).
- Leads enterprise provider leadership development programs, including onboarding and orientation for all provider types.
- Supports and engages with Physician and Advanced Practice Provider Advisory Councils.
- Provides executive oversight for clinical provider components within the employed Medical Group.
- Oversees compensation models, RVU performance management systems, incentives, and contracts for primary care, specialty, and urgent care providers.
- Sets enterprise frameworks for peer review processes, including escalation pathways.
- Leads development of clinical standards, policies, role definitions, and scope‑of‑practice structures.
- Oversees leadership development and wellness strategies for employed providers.
- Ensures appropriate APP scope‑of‑practice governance.
- Leads partner physician relationship management and collaborates with system leadership to address concerns.
- Provides governance support through the Clinical Enterprise Strategy Committee (CESC).
- Maintains professional affiliations as appropriate.
- Enhances professional growth and development through participation in education programs, current literature, in-service meetings/seminars and workshops.
- Performs other related work as required or requested.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
