VP, Strategy and Transformation

UofL Health•Louisville, KY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Strategy & Transformation is a senior leadership role within the strategy organization responsible for leading a team of highly visible professionals to advance enterprise-wide transformation. Acting as head of the transformation management office, this leader is accountable for translating strategic priorities into a coordinated portfolio of initiatives and ensuring disciplined execution across the organization. The Vice President partners closely with executive leadership, hospital administration, physician leaders, and operational teams to design, prioritize, and implement transformation programs across hospitals, service lines, and corporate functions. This includes defining initiative roadmaps, aligning resources, and implementing performance management systems to track progress and ensure delivery of targeted outcomes. This role requires strong systems thinking, analytical rigor, and change leadership to lead complex, enterprise-level initiatives that drive performance improvement, enable strategic priorities, and deliver measurable results within a large academic health system. The Director will oversee a structured transformation management approach, including initiative intake and prioritization, milestone tracking, risk mitigation, and executive reporting, ensuring alignment and accountability across all levels of the organization. In addition, the Vice President will lead efforts to identify and evaluate growth and financial improvement opportunities, develop and execute strategic plans, assess the competitive landscape, and support strategic transactions through financial and operational due diligence. Serving as a trusted thought partner to system executives, physicians, and operational leaders, this individual will apply hypothesis-driven problem solving while ensuring effective execution, organizational alignment, and sustained impact of transformational initiatives across the enterprise.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or Healthcare Administration (MHA) required
MD acceptable with relevant non-clinical strategy experience
8-10+ years of experience in strategy, transformation, consulting, or healthcare leadership
Experience in large, complex health systems or top-tier strategy consulting firms (e.g., McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte) strongly preferred
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise transformation initiatives
Experience with financial modeling, analytics, and large-scale program execution required
Progressive leadership experience strongly preferred
Experience in a matrixed organization
Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across diverse teams
Strategic thinker with a bias for execution and results

Responsibilities

Serve as the enterprise Transformation Management Officer, establishing and leading a centralized approach to managing strategic initiatives and transformation efforts
Design and implement transformation governance structures, including executive steering committees, initiative review cadences, and decision-making frameworks
Develop and manage a prioritized portfolio of transformation initiatives aligned with system strategy and performance goals
Oversee initiative intake, prioritization, and resource alignment processes to ensure focus on highest-impact opportunities
Establish standardized program and project management methodologies, tools, and templates to support consistent execution across the organization
Accountable for enforcing enterprise prioritization decisions approved by executive leadership
Translate strategic priorities into actionable transformation roadmaps with defined milestones, deliverables, and success metrics
Monitor progress of enterprise initiatives through robust tracking systems, dashboards, and performance reporting
Identify risks, interdependencies, and barriers to execution, and proactively drive mitigation strategies
Ensure accountability for results by partnering with initiative owners and operational leaders to achieve defined outcomes
Lead the development and tracking of KPIs and value realization metrics to measure impact and sustain improvements
Act as the system‑level steward of driving disciplined execution, issue resolution, and outcome delivery for the organization’s most critical, cross‑enterprise initiatives
Lead the execution of the system-wide strategic planning process, ensuring alignment across system, hospital, service line, and functional strategies
Direct the creation of long-term strategic plans, including growth strategies, service line development, and market expansion opportunities
Identify and evaluate opportunities for growth, margin improvement, and operational optimization through rigorous analysis
Oversee market, competitive, and industry analyses, ensuring leadership has timely, actionable insights
Serve as a strategic advisor to executive, clinical, and operational leaders, supporting complex decision-making and problem solving
Lead strategic initiatives and special projects as assigned, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities
Lead enterprise change management efforts to support adoption and sustainability of transformation initiatives
Engage stakeholders across all levels of the organization to build alignment, commitment, and accountability
Partner with clinical and physician leadership to ensure transformation initiatives are aligned with care delivery priorities
Drive clear, consistent communication of strategic priorities, initiative progress, and outcomes to executive leadership and key stakeholders
Direct the development of advanced analytics to inform both strategy development and transformation execution
Oversee creation of dashboards, reports, and decision-support tools that provide visibility into performance and progress
Leverage internal and external data sources to assess market dynamics, operational performance, and strategic opportunities
Build and maintain strategic data infrastructure and tools to support planning, forecasting, and performance tracking
Support strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships
Conduct financial and operational due diligence, including valuation modeling and risk assessment
Support integration planning and execution for acquisitions and partnerships
Evaluate new business models and partnership opportunities aligned with system strategy
Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of strategy and transformation professionals
Establish clear expectations, manage performance, and support professional development of direct reports
Foster a culture of analytical rigor, accountability, and execution excellence
Promote adoption of hypothesis-driven problem solving and structured strategic thinking across the organization