Vice President Performance & Strategic Execution
About The Position
Lifemark Health Group (LHG) is a market leader in customized healthcare solutions with over 20 years of service excellence. As one of Canada's largest and most comprehensive providers, LHG employs over 5,000 professionals across nearly 400 locations. The company is focused on being the most innovative healthcare provider in community rehabilitation, workplace health and wellness, and medical assessment services. Following its acquisition by Loblaw Companies in May 2022, Lifemark has experienced significant growth and is now entering a phase of professionalizing its organization to ensure sustainable scaling while maintaining momentum. This role is central to that transition, aiming to professionalize the organization without slowing its growth trajectory, which is targeted at approximately 20% annually. The Vice President, Performance & Strategic Execution will be responsible for translating Lifemark’s growth ambition into focused, economically disciplined, and strategically sequenced execution. This hybrid role is based out of North York at 243 Consumers Rd, requiring 4 days a week in the office and 1 day remote.
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience within a multi-site, distributed P&L environment.
- Experience operating at scale in organizations exceeding $500M in revenue.
- Proven track record sustaining high growth while strengthening operating discipline.
- Experience working within a parent-subsidiary governance structure.
- Demonstrated capital allocation and investment evaluation expertise.
- Strong commercial orientation and financial fluency.
- Deep understanding of capital deployment, ROI governance, and performance management.
- Ability to assess tradeoffs between growth velocity and operational sustainability.
- Experience integrating analytics, portfolio governance, and transformation delivery.
- Comfortable operating in constructive tension within senior leadership teams.
- Credible with both healthcare operators and corporate stakeholders.
- Calm and disciplined under growth pressure.
- Comfortable challenging assumptions with data and economic logic.
- Enterprise-first mindset.
- Clear communicator at executive, Board, and parent levels.
- Low ego, high accountability.
Nice To Haves
- Prior P&L ownership or senior operational leadership strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead the annual and multi-year strategic planning cycle.
- Translate growth ambitions into a clear, sequenced enterprise roadmap.
- Align organic and inorganic initiatives with financial and capacity realities.
- Ensure strategic tradeoffs are explicit and economically grounded.
- Establish rigorous business case standards for major investments.
- Govern capital deployment and initiative approval processes.
- Monitor ROI realization and enforce post-investment accountability.
- Reallocate resources where returns deviate from expectations.
- Own the enterprise initiative portfolio across growth, integration, and performance improvement.
- Assess organizational capacity and prevent initiative overload.
- Sequence initiatives to preserve execution quality and operational sustainability.
- Eliminate misaligned or low-return efforts.
- Ensure enterprise analytics deliver decision-useful insights.
- Implement consistent KPI frameworks across a distributed, multi-site healthcare network.
- Improve predictability of revenue, margin, and operating performance.
- Elevate executive debate through commercial and analytical rigor.
- Own consolidated performance reporting and strategic updates to Loblaw.
- Provide transparent visibility into growth trajectory, margin performance, and capital deployment.
- Translate healthcare operating realities into clear, decision-relevant insights for a retail-based corporate audience.
- Ensure alignment between subsidiary strategy and parent-level expectations.
- Act as a strategic partner and constructive counterbalance within the ELT.
- Bring commercial discipline to expansion and integration decisions.
- Support Operations in balancing growth velocity with standardization and scalability.
- Elevate enterprise focus and execution clarity across the leadership team.
Benefits
- Accommodations are available on request for all candidates taking part in any aspect of the recruitment and selection process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
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