Vice President, Provider Recruiting and Contracting

Lifepoint Health • Brentwood, TN

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are hiring a Vice President, Provider Recruitment and Contracting. Your experience matters. At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. The Vice President, Provider Recruitment and Contracting is accountable for developing and executing Lifepoint Health’s enterprise strategy for physician and advanced practice professional (APP) recruitment, contracting, onboarding coordination, and workforce pipeline development. This role ensures the organization attracts, engages, contracts, and retains the clinical talent required to support enterprise growth, patient access, quality, and long-term sustainability objectives. This executive owns the end-to-end provider recruitment and contracting lifecycle across acute, ambulatory, and service line settings for providers employed by or contracted with a Lifepoint medical group. The role establishes scalable operating models, standardized processes, governance, and performance expectations that reduce time-to-fill, accelerate contracting timelines, strengthen onboarding effectiveness, and support provider retention. Working in close partnership with division leadership, Medical Group Services, operations, finance, legal, physician leaders, graduate medical education, and service line leadership, the Vice President aligns provider workforce planning with market demand, growth priorities, and enterprise clinical access goals. Success is measured by the organization’s ability to consistently recruit and retain high-performing providers, execute compliant and competitive contracts efficiently, improve the provider’s experience, and meet workforce demands across all markets. The position is considered a hybrid role with an expectation of travel around 25%.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Health Administration (MHA), Business Administration (MBA), Public Health (MPH), Human Resources Management, Health Services Administration or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare provider recruitment, physician enterprise operations, workforce management, medical group operations, or related healthcare leadership roles.
• 5+ years leading multi-site, geographically dispersed provider recruitment and contracting teams; experience in integrated health systems, physician enterprises, medical group services organizations, or multi-market healthcare organizations preferred.
• Demonstrated success recruiting physicians and advanced practice professionals across multiple specialties, practice settings, and markets; proven experience developing enterprise provider workforce strategies that support organizational growth and access objectives.
• Successful track record leading organizational change, standardizing processes, and improving enterprise performance through scalable operating models.
• Strong knowledge of provider compensation methodologies, physician employment agreements, contract negotiations, healthcare workforce trends, and provider recruitment best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with legal, finance, physician leadership, operations, executive teams, and other stakeholders in complex provider recruitment and contracting environments.
• Ability to use workforce analytics and performance metrics to improve recruitment outcomes, contracting efficiency, onboarding effectiveness, provider retention, and operational performance.
• Strong executive communication, relationship-building, negotiation, strategic planning, change leadership, and team development skills.
• Maintains compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and supports hospital and department policies, procedures, and standards.
• Consistently supports the mission, vision, values, and goals of the hospital and Lifepoint Health.
• Acts in a positive, proactive, and professional manner when interacting with employees, leaders, physicians, patients, visitors, and community partners.
• Maintains confidentiality, complies with HIPAA requirements, and handles sensitive business and patient information appropriately.
• Demonstrates accountability for workplace safety and completes assigned education, training, and mandatory requirements in a timely manner.
• Maintains required licensure, certification, and professional credentials, if applicable, in good standing.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant professional certification or advanced leadership development in healthcare, physician enterprise operations, provider recruitment, or human resources preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of enterprise recruitment and contracting strategies for employed physicians, advanced practice professionals, and providers with professional services agreements within the medical group line of business.
• Partner with operational, clinical, financial, and service line leaders to align provider workforce planning with enterprise growth, patient access, succession, and care delivery priorities.
• Develop scalable recruiting and contracting models, workforce planning methodologies, and market-level recruitment objectives that proactively address provider shortages, succession risks, access gaps, and growth opportunities.
• Provide executive leadership for physician and APP recruitment teams responsible for sourcing, candidate engagement, site visits, selection, offer development, and hiring across priority specialties, geographies, and service lines.
• Implement innovative sourcing, branding, marketing, and outreach strategies that improve candidate generation, diversity of candidate pipelines, and recruitment effectiveness in accordance with Lifepoint Health Business Solutions standards.
• Partner with Graduate Medical Education programs, professional associations, academic institutions, and external organizations to establish sustainable provider pipelines, consistent candidate experience standards, and leadership capability within the recruitment function.
• Lead enterprise provider contracting processes to ensure efficient, compliant, and timely execution, renewal, and amendment of employment agreements, including offers, term sheets, contract reviews, approvals, and execution.
• Establish contracting governance frameworks, standardized workflows, approval and escalation pathways, documentation standards, and processes for identifying and escalating high-risk or non-standard contract terms.
• Partner with finance, legal, physician compensation, and operational leaders to support contract development and negotiations while balancing recruitment competitiveness with financial stewardship, internal equity, enterprise compensation standards, and market-specific needs.
• Ensure provider contracting practices comply with organizational policies and applicable requirements concerning fair market value, commercial reasonableness, Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and other relevant laws and regulations.
• Partner with operations, credentialing, payer enrollment, IT, People Services, and market leadership to define ownership, handoffs, timelines, and escalation pathways that ensure a coordinated provider onboarding experience.
• Establish enterprise onboarding standards that support a coordinated transition from recruitment through full clinical integration, initial productivity, and sustain provider satisfaction.
• Monitor onboarding performance, identify barriers to timely start dates and successful integration, and use feedback and performance data to improve provider satisfaction, engagement, and time-to-productivity.
• Collaborate with physician leadership and operational teams to support provider retention initiatives, workforce stability strategies, and proactive engagement programs across the employment lifecycle.
• Utilize workforce analytics, exit data, engagement results, and other indicators to identify turnover risks, monitor retention trends, and implement targeted interventions that improve physician and APP engagement, organizational alignment, professional development, and succession planning.
• Establish key performance indicators, reporting structures, service level expectations, and accountability mechanisms for recruitment, contracting, onboarding, and retention.
• Utilize data and analytics to identify opportunities for process improvement, operational efficiency, workforce optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce vacancies, shorten recruitment and contracting timelines, improve onboarding readiness, and accelerate provider ramp-up.
• Develop enterprise dashboards that provide visibility into workforce demand, recruitment pipelines, contract status, onboarding readiness, retention, and operational barriers while ensuring consistent execution of enterprise standards with appropriate market-specific flexibility.
• Serve as the executive leader for provider recruitment and contracting teams across the enterprise, leading, developing, and retaining geographically dispersed teams while building accountability and succession capability.
• Build effective partnerships with division presidents, market CEOs, CMOs, physician leaders, Medical Group Services leadership, finance, legal and compliance, compensation, People Services, and other key stakeholders while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, service excellence, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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