VP, KCG Corporate Development & Growth

Oregon Health & Science University•Portland, OR

About The Position

The Knight Cancer Corporate Development & Strategic Growth Leader leads Knight Cancer’s growth strategy and capital deployment in partnership with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and the KCG Board. The role oversees the full corporate development lifecycle—including identifying, valuing, structuring, negotiating, and closing acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, and partnerships—and optimizes existing collaborative relationships. It also expands the regional and broader cancer-care network through physician alignment, new-site development, and service-line growth. The leader carries strategies through execution by overseeing integration, tracking performance against business cases, and applying lessons to future investments. The position operates in partnership with OHSU and in accordance with established agreements between OHSU and Knight Cancer Group, which provides management, coordination, oversight, and accountability for the Knight Cancer Institute and OHSU’s cancer program. The leader partners with the ELT to develop and execute long-term enterprise growth strategy, translate priorities into market, network, investment, and development roadmaps, and evaluate organic and inorganic opportunities. The role leads strategic and financial business cases, establishes frameworks to evaluate and monitor strategic investments, and supports executive and governance decisions about growth capital and organizational resources. The position directs corporate development transactions from opportunity identification and strategic assessment through valuation, diligence, structuring, negotiation, approval, and closing. It coordinates internal and external financial, legal, regulatory, operational, and clinical resources; maintains a pipeline of opportunities; and represents Knight Cancer in discussions with potential partners and other strategic counterparties. The leader develops strategies to expand the cancer-care network, identifies priority markets and capabilities, builds physician alignment and referral relationships, and integrates ambulatory development, service-line expansion, and new-site opportunities into the broader growth strategy. The role works with clinical and operational leaders to ensure initiatives support clinical, academic, and patient-care objectives. Following approval, the leader translates strategies and transactions into execution plans with defined accountability, milestones, financial objectives, and performance measures. The position oversees integration, monitors results against business cases, and uses lessons learned to inform future decisions. It also assesses and builds the organizational capabilities, talent, analytical resources, governance processes, internal team, and external advisory network needed to deliver Knight Cancer’s growth agenda. As a senior resource to the ELT, the leader participates in broader enterprise planning and builds relationships across Knight Cancer Group, OHSU, clinical leadership, and external stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, healthcare administration, finance, or a related field.
At least 10 years of experience in healthcare management, business planning, and/or business development.
Significant progressive leadership experience in corporate development, healthcare strategy, investment banking, health-system growth, network development, or related fields.
Senior healthcare executive experience leading enterprise growth strategy, corporate development, transactions such as JOA and PSA, network expansion, and strategic partnerships.
Demonstrated experience leading complex strategic initiatives and transactions from concept through execution.
Experience working across clinical, physician, operational, financial, and governance stakeholders in complex healthcare environments.
Expert knowledge of finance and valuation methodologies and their practical application.
Superior ability to work with physician leaders and develop relationships with outside organizations.
Ability to translate strategy into executable initiatives, investment decisions, and measurable operating and financial outcomes.
Strong transaction capabilities, including strategic assessment, valuation, diligence, structuring, negotiation, and integration planning.
Exceptional written and verbal communication capabilities.
Ability to operate effectively in a developing enterprise, build new capabilities, and create structure where processes and organizational models are still evolving.
Executive presence and judgment appropriate for representing Knight Cancer with senior internal and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or relevant professional credentials.
Cancer care, academic medicine, physician enterprise, ambulatory network, or other complex healthcare experience.
Experience developing a clinical network with successful activation.
Experience in rigorous physician recruitment planning, deployment, and growth.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Knight Cancer ELT to develop and execute the long-term enterprise growth strategy.
Translate strategic priorities into actionable market, network, investment, and development roadmaps.
Identify, evaluate, and prioritize organic and inorganic growth opportunities.
Lead development of strategic and financial business cases for growth investments.
Establish frameworks for evaluating, prioritizing, and monitoring the strategic investment portfolio for ELT and KCG Board review.
Support executive and governance decisions about growth capital and organizational resources.
Lead corporate development activities involving acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, partnerships, and other transaction structures.
Direct transactions from opportunity identification and strategic assessment through valuation, diligence, structuring, negotiation, approval, and closing.
Coordinate internal and external financial, legal, regulatory, operational, and clinical resources supporting transactions.
Develop and maintain a pipeline of strategic opportunities aligned with Knight Cancer’s long-term objectives.
Represent Knight Cancer with potential partners, physician organizations, health systems, and other strategic counterparties in partnership with the ELT.
Develop strategies to expand the regional and broader cancer-care network and identify priority markets, clinical capabilities, physician relationships, and partnership opportunities.
Develop physician alignment, affiliation, and partnership models appropriate to market conditions and strategic objectives.
Build relationships with external referring physicians and practices to grow referrals, communicate clinical capabilities, foster provider engagement, and facilitate patient access to care.
Integrate ambulatory development, service-line expansion, and new-site opportunities into the broader growth strategy.
Partner with clinical and operational leaders to ensure growth initiatives support clinical, academic, and patient-care objectives.
Translate approved growth strategies and transactions into detailed implementation and execution plans.
Set accountability, milestones, financial objectives, and performance measures for major strategic initiatives.
Lead or oversee integration planning for acquisitions, affiliations, and other significant growth initiatives with Knight Cancer and OHSU teams.
Monitor performance against approved business cases and identify actions to achieve strategic and financial objectives.
Apply lessons from completed initiatives to future investment and execution decisions.
Assess organizational capabilities required to support Knight Cancer’s strategic growth agenda and recommend structure, talent, analytical capabilities, governance processes, and external resources.
Build, reorganize, and develop internal strategic growth and corporate development capabilities as needs evolve.
Establish repeatable processes and decision frameworks for strategy development, investment evaluation, transactions, and integration.
Develop a high-performing team and external advisory network appropriate to Knight Cancer’s growth ambitions.
Serve as a senior resource to the ELT on major strategic and organizational priorities and participate in enterprise planning and investment prioritization.
Build productive relationships across Knight Cancer Group, OHSU, clinical leadership, and external stakeholders.