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Agfa HealthCare, is a division of the Agfa-Gevaert Group which is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium and traded on Euronext Brussels (AGFB).

At Agfa HealthCare, we support healthcare professionals across the globe to transform the delivery of care. Our focus is 100% on providing best-of-suite Imaging IT software solutions that enable secure, effective and sustainable imaging data management.

From product development to implementation, our unified Enterprise Imaging Platform is purpose-built to reduce complexity, improve productivity and deliver clinical value. We use our proven track record as an innovator, our in-depth medical knowledge and our strategic guidance to help healthcare providers achieve their clinical, operational and business strategies.

The VP, Strategic Planning and Business Operations will be responsible for translating business strategy into execution, and enables the HealthCare organization to run more strategically, effectively, and efficiently, across all functions. The role sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, analytics, process improvement, and cross-functional leadership. Its core purpose is to turn business goals into operational reality by aligning people, processes, systems, and metrics.

The role leads the strategic planning process, drives operational rigor, and orchestrates cross-functional execution to deliver on growth, profitability, and transformation priorities. Acting as a trusted advisor to the President and leadership team, this leader serves as both an integrator and catalyst, connecting functions, resolving trade-offs, and ensuring accountability across the leadership team.

Location:

• Remote: North America

What You'll Do:

Strategy Development and Execution:

• Partners with the business President and leadership team to define and evolve the business strategy (“what” and “how”)
• Translates the strategy into clear priorities, roadmaps, and measurable plans to take the business forward.
• Establishes enterprise KPIs and performance dashboards. Monitors performance against plans and leads interventions when necessary.
• This includes overseeing the annual review with the leadership team to establish annual business KPI’s as well as ensuring quarterly reporting on progress to the organization. Ensures owners and underlying metrics are established and measurable, and incorporated into the MyPerformance process.
• Influences: Revenue growth, Operating margin, Productivity metrics, Customer retention, Forecast accuracy, SLA adherence, Employee efficiency, Project delivery timelines, Process cycle times
• Analyzes trends and operational bottlenecks, presents insights to executives and ensures data-driven decisions
• Provides input into BI strategy for the business

Operational Excellence and Value Creation:

• Defines and runs the business operating cadence to align with financial and strategic planning, including 5 year planning, annual operating plan, Executive forums such as RBRs, QBRs, ELT meetings, and Board Meetings, and enterprise info tour agendas.
  • Define the rhythm and monitor effectiveness of monthly RBR’s, drive for continuous improvement and adapt to changing business needs to ensure clear understanding of business status and actions needed for success
  • Lead the 5Y planning process ensuring that regions, finance, product are aligned on timelines, goals and outputs. Facilitate process improvements to drive focus on improving year over year effectiveness of the process
  • Lead the annual budget process- determine the timing, ensure deliverables are clear, targets are assigned, operating reviews are scheduled and aligned with global timelines
  • Facilitates ELT discussions on performance, risks, and tradeoffs – natural point of contact for the LT to surface topics that need overall visibility or are lacking traction.
• Identifies inefficiencies and improves core business processes
• Leads/ influences improvement of core business processes across teams
• Builds/ Supports scalable operating models
• Leads automation and systems optimization (CRM Platforms)
• Ensures financial discipline across operations (specifically, focus on EBITDA, margin improvement, productivity initiatives and cost management, identifying global opportunities as well as specific regional priorities.

Cross-Functional Leadership:

The role acts as the “connective tissue” between departments. Partner/Align across:

• Financial: Works very closely with the finance team, maintaining balance between targets and reality; provides balance where needed
• Commercial success: (Sales & Service): Partners with central and regional teams to manage alignment/progress/execution of region decisions/actions with overall business strategy;
  • Oversees pricing rigor, discounting trends, and deal governance
  • Support/ enable leveraging global resources towards needed region execution
  • Influence pricing, deal quality, and contract structure for services
  • Collaborate with HR to support the annual incentive compensation review process including financial projections and reviews to ensure plans drive business objectives and appropriate behavior.
• Product / R&D: Ensure full, recurring and consistent alignment between Product/R&D teams and Regions.
• Resource allocation and prioritization: Partners with HR to develop headcount, resource, and capacity planning.
• Mitigates and brings closure to misalignment & gaps.
• Leads execution of strategic initiatives, cross-functional engagement, prioritization in our overall planning processes, and challenge where the organization requires more traction.
  • Cloud transition, product-service alignment, global delivery models
  • Improve utilization, realization, delivery models, and scalability
  • Balancing regional capacity, cost structure, and delivery efficiency
• Advocates for investments in tools, automation, and scalability to enable growth.

Fosters a culture of accountability, collaboration, and execution:

• Drives performance mindset across the business, proactively strengthening areas and providing coaching as needed.
• Manages organizational change and adoption of new operating models, with relevant stakeholders
• Ensures effective coordination of timelines, resources, and outcomes
• Facilitates executive-level decision forums and prioritization discussions
• Acts as an early warning system for risks, performance gaps, and organizational issues
• Maintain cohesion and continuity across teams through transformation

Who You Are:

• 12–18+ years of experience in strategy, operations, or transformation leadership roles
• Professional degree in finance, business management, or related field. MBA preferred.
• Background in management consulting, corporate strategy, or strategy & operations leadership
• Proven success in a matrixed, global organization
• Experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives across multiple functions
• Demonstrated ownership of strategic planning and operational execution processes
• Strong exposure to financial management and performance improvement (EBITDA, cost, productivity)
• Excellent business acumen and problem solving skills
• Expertise leading complex programs and leveraging best in class change methodologies
• Proven ability to translate strategy into executable plans
• Experience leading strategic planning cycles
• Experience designing operating cadences and leveraging them to optimize business performance
• Ability to define forward driving KPIs and operating Rhythms
• Demonstrated systems thinking: connecting product, commercial, financial, and customer levers.
• Influencing skills: Executive communication, stakeholder management, influence without authority, and team leadership
• Deep analytics skills including financial modeling, forecasting, and developing BI capability
• Experience with CRM/ERP systems, Dashboarding tools, Process mapping, SaaS contracting and other systems
• Experience designing or improving business financial levers including variable compensation strategies, pricing/discounting, etc.
• Experience with M&A, integration, or large-scale organizational change strongly preferred

Our Values:

• Own It (I do what I say, full accountability for results, finding solutions and Practice ethical and safe behaviors)
• Play as One (Collaborate for a common goal, diverse perspectives. Listen and communicate with respect, support decision for teams’ benefits)
• Move Forward (Embrace change, explore opportunities to innovate, feedback and improve performance, Proactive steps to resolve issues and continuous progress).
• Drive Value (Bold choices to maximize value creation, customer deliver exceptional value, add value to all stakeholders, use data to generate crucial insights and outcomes).

What we offer now and in the future:

• Dynamic global organization with a history of innovation and strong product portfolio.
• Challenging environment combined with a supportive management structure.
• Career development and growth.
• Competitive salary and benefit package.
• Friendly work environment surrounded by dedicated and professional colleagues.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Agfa, our mission at Agfa is to ensure that everyone belongs. We believe that diversity and inclusion of others promotes a greater feeling of belonging and higher levels of engagement. We know that if we work together, we can do amazing things, and that our differences are what make our company, products, and services great.

Compensation: At Agfa HealthCare, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: Depending on the candidate’s education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

AI Usage Disclosure: As part of our commitment to transparency, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in various stages of our recruitment process, including resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling, and communications. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and enhance candidate experience. All decisions regarding hiring are made by qualified human professionals, and we continuously monitor our AI systems to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable regulations.

We offer a rewarding career in a field that impacts lives, the opportunity to work with a talented and committed team of individuals, training and career development programs, and a competitive compensation and benefits package. If you want to be part of this experience, we'll take you there!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment application process, please contact agfahealthcarehrna@agfa.com.

At Agfa HealthCare, we are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes diversity of Age, Gender, Gender Identity or expression, Race, Sexual Orientation, Physical Ability, Ethnicity, or any other aspect that makes someone unique. The differences among us are our strengths. We are committed to promoting a diverse, equal and inclusive workplace that fully represents the different cultures, viewpoints and backgrounds of our global organization and the world we live in.

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