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Job Description Summary
As the Vice President, you will lead exploration of high-potential priority growth initiatives identified by the Nationwide Financial Leadership Team (NFLT). You’ll help determine where focused, cross-functional effort can generate meaningful, additive growth across Nationwide Financial businesses.Reporting directly to the President & COO, Nationwide Financial, you will operate at the intersection of customer needs, market opportunity, business capabilities, distribution, economics, and execution. You’ll translate sponsored initiatives into clear opportunity hypotheses, build fact-based recommendations, and mobilize the right partners to test, refine, and advance the most promising concepts. Growth opportunities are expected to complement and expand existing business strategies.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Explore and shape priority growth initiatives
- Lead exploration of business-line-adjacent growth initiatives, translating broad NFLT direction into focused questions, hypotheses, and choices.
- Partner across NFLT to understand current business capabilities, unique business needs, customer opportunities, and potential expansion into new markets or distribution channels.
- Assess whether opportunities are strategically attractive, additive to existing business strategies, financially compelling, operationally feasible, and appropriate for further investment.
- Incubate, evaluate, and advance opportunities
- Convert priority initiatives into clear concepts, hypotheses, and testable value propositions.
- Lead structured discovery, design, and evaluation work to determine whether an opportunity warrants further investment or should be stopped.
- Build concise business cases that articulate the customer problem, strategic rationale, expected additive growth, target economics, required capabilities, risks, milestones, and decision points.
- Design and oversee pilots, experiments, or other staged learning approaches that improve the quality and speed of investment decisions.
- Establish clear transition criteria for moving an opportunity from exploration to an identified business-unit sponsor, scale, or deliberate stop.
- Mobilize enterprise collaboration and decision-making
- Convene the right leaders and subject-matter experts across Nationwide Financial and the enterprise to assess opportunities and resolve key questions.
- Create alignment around priorities, decision rights, milestones, and resource requirements without creating a parallel operating structure.
- Prepare clear recommendations and decision materials for the President & COO, NFLT, and relevant leadership forums.
- Partner across NFLT to ensure that opportunities are informed by operating realities and, when approved, have an accountable business-unit sponsor.
- Surface dependencies, tradeoffs, and barriers early and help leaders make timely choices.
- Build a repeatable growth discipline
- Establish practical methods, governance, tools, and performance measures for opportunity identification, incubation, and progression.
- Maintain a transparent portfolio view of opportunities, including stage, owner, investment, expected value, key risks, and next decision.
- Capture lessons learned and strengthen the organization’s ability to move from insight to tested concept to scaled business outcome.
- Develop the role’s team, partner model, and resource base over time in line with the size and maturity of the opportunity portfolio.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to President & COO, Nationwide Financial
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. A degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field is preferred. An advanced degree or other relevant professional credential is a plus.
Experience: Substantial senior leadership experience in financial services or another complex, regulated, customer-focused industry, with a track record of identifying, shaping, and advancing new growth opportunities. Demonstrated experience moving opportunities from early hypotheses through customer and market validation, business-case development, executive decision-making, and transition to an accountable business owner. Experience assessing customer needs, market attractiveness, distribution channels, business capabilities, economics, risk, and investment requirements. Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across business lines and enterprise functions, including the ability to influence outcomes without relying on formal authority. Preferred experience includes launching or expanding products, services, business models, markets, or distribution channels; designing pilots or experiments; and building or evaluating business cases for new investments, capabilities, or operating models.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Knowledge of financial-services customers, products, distribution models, market dynamics, competitive positioning, operating models, and emerging growth opportunities. Knowledge of business-case development, market and customer assessment, financial modeling, investment evaluation, risk considerations, and stage-gated decision-making. Ability to translate broad executive direction into focused opportunity hypotheses, strategic choices, and actionable workplans. Ability to influence, align, and mobilize senior stakeholders across business units and enterprise functions without direct authority. Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, distinguish promising opportunities from attractive ideas, and make disciplined recommendations to advance, reshape, or stop an initiative. Exceptional executive communication, including concise written recommendations, presentations, storytelling, and facilitation. Strong strategic, financial, analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, relationship-building, negotiation, and conflict-navigation skills. Sound judgment in balancing ambition, speed, risk, compliance, and execution feasibility in a highly regulated environment.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resource Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Normal office environment.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more.
Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.
NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:
We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.
Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule. The national salary range for VP, Growth Initiatives - Financial Services : $254,250.00-$423,750.00 The expected starting salary range for VP, Growth Initiatives - Financial Services : $254,250.00-$423,750.00- Job Category General Management
- Position Type Full Time
- Posted 2026-11-11T19:07:11.424772+00:00
- Location(s) Ohio - Columbus, One Nationwide Plaza
- Line of Business
- Entity
- Recruiter
- Hiring Manager
- Experience Level
- Req ID 101371
Job Description Summary
As the Vice President, you will lead exploration of high-potential priority growth initiatives identified by the Nationwide Financial Leadership Team (NFLT). You’ll help determine where focused, cross-functional effort can generate meaningful, additive growth across Nationwide Financial businesses.Reporting directly to the President & COO, Nationwide Financial, you will operate at the intersection of customer needs, market opportunity, business capabilities, distribution, economics, and execution. You’ll translate sponsored initiatives into clear opportunity hypotheses, build fact-based recommendations, and mobilize the right partners to test, refine, and advance the most promising concepts. Growth opportunities are expected to complement and expand existing business strategies.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Explore and shape priority growth initiatives
- Lead exploration of business-line-adjacent growth initiatives, translating broad NFLT direction into focused questions, hypotheses, and choices.
- Partner across NFLT to understand current business capabilities, unique business needs, customer opportunities, and potential expansion into new markets or distribution channels.
- Assess whether opportunities are strategically attractive, additive to existing business strategies, financially compelling, operationally feasible, and appropriate for further investment.
- Incubate, evaluate, and advance opportunities
- Convert priority initiatives into clear concepts, hypotheses, and testable value propositions.
- Lead structured discovery, design, and evaluation work to determine whether an opportunity warrants further investment or should be stopped.
- Build concise business cases that articulate the customer problem, strategic rationale, expected additive growth, target economics, required capabilities, risks, milestones, and decision points.
- Design and oversee pilots, experiments, or other staged learning approaches that improve the quality and speed of investment decisions.
- Establish clear transition criteria for moving an opportunity from exploration to an identified business-unit sponsor, scale, or deliberate stop.
- Mobilize enterprise collaboration and decision-making
- Convene the right leaders and subject-matter experts across Nationwide Financial and the enterprise to assess opportunities and resolve key questions.
- Create alignment around priorities, decision rights, milestones, and resource requirements without creating a parallel operating structure.
- Prepare clear recommendations and decision materials for the President & COO, NFLT, and relevant leadership forums.
- Partner across NFLT to ensure that opportunities are informed by operating realities and, when approved, have an accountable business-unit sponsor.
- Surface dependencies, tradeoffs, and barriers early and help leaders make timely choices.
- Build a repeatable growth discipline
- Establish practical methods, governance, tools, and performance measures for opportunity identification, incubation, and progression.
- Maintain a transparent portfolio view of opportunities, including stage, owner, investment, expected value, key risks, and next decision.
- Capture lessons learned and strengthen the organization’s ability to move from insight to tested concept to scaled business outcome.
- Develop the role’s team, partner model, and resource base over time in line with the size and maturity of the opportunity portfolio.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to President & COO, Nationwide Financial
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. A degree in business, finance, economics, or a related field is preferred. An advanced degree or other relevant professional credential is a plus.
Experience: Substantial senior leadership experience in financial services or another complex, regulated, customer-focused industry, with a track record of identifying, shaping, and advancing new growth opportunities. Demonstrated experience moving opportunities from early hypotheses through customer and market validation, business-case development, executive decision-making, and transition to an accountable business owner. Experience assessing customer needs, market attractiveness, distribution channels, business capabilities, economics, risk, and investment requirements. Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across business lines and enterprise functions, including the ability to influence outcomes without relying on formal authority. Preferred experience includes launching or expanding products, services, business models, markets, or distribution channels; designing pilots or experiments; and building or evaluating business cases for new investments, capabilities, or operating models.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Knowledge of financial-services customers, products, distribution models, market dynamics, competitive positioning, operating models, and emerging growth opportunities. Knowledge of business-case development, market and customer assessment, financial modeling, investment evaluation, risk considerations, and stage-gated decision-making. Ability to translate broad executive direction into focused opportunity hypotheses, strategic choices, and actionable workplans. Ability to influence, align, and mobilize senior stakeholders across business units and enterprise functions without direct authority. Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, distinguish promising opportunities from attractive ideas, and make disciplined recommendations to advance, reshape, or stop an initiative. Exceptional executive communication, including concise written recommendations, presentations, storytelling, and facilitation. Strong strategic, financial, analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, relationship-building, negotiation, and conflict-navigation skills. Sound judgment in balancing ambition, speed, risk, compliance, and execution feasibility in a highly regulated environment.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resource Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Normal office environment.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more.
Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.
NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:
We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.
Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule. The national salary range for VP, Growth Initiatives - Financial Services : $254,250.00-$423,750.00 The expected starting salary range for VP, Growth Initiatives - Financial Services : $254,250.00-$423,750.00- Job Category General Management
- Position Type Full Time
- Posted 2026-11-11T19:07:11.424772+00:00
- Location(s) Ohio - Columbus, One Nationwide Plaza
- Line of Business
- Entity
- Recruiter
- Hiring Manager
- Experience Level
- Req ID 101371
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Insurance
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in vice president of clinical services jobs.
- Master's degree in nursing, health administration, or a related clinical field
- Active clinical licensure such as RN required by most health system employers
- Minimum of ten or more years of progressive clinical and leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience managing interdisciplinary teams across multiple service lines
- Proficiency with electronic health records and clinical performance reporting tools
- Experience with regulatory compliance, Joint Commission standards, and accreditation processes
Tips for Your Vice President of Clinical Services Job Search
Quantify outcomes in your resume
Hiring committees for this role expect metrics tied to clinical quality, cost reduction, or patient satisfaction. Replace vague statements about leadership with specific outcomes you owned, such as readmission rate changes or accreditation results your division achieved.
Align credentials to the posting
Many postings distinguish between clinical licensure requirements and preferred administrative credentials like a master's in health administration or nursing. Read each listing carefully and lead with whichever credential the organization weights most heavily in its requirements language.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vice president of clinical services openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target organizations by growth stage
A health system integrating a recent acquisition needs different clinical leadership than one optimizing a stable network. Tailor your cover letter to signal whether your background fits a turnaround, expansion, or efficiency-focused mandate based on what you read in the organization's public announcements.
Prepare for a multi-panel interview structure
Expect separate conversations with the CMO, CNO, HR leadership, and board members. Each audience weighs different priorities, so prepare distinct talking points for clinical governance, workforce strategy, and financial stewardship rather than delivering the same narrative to every panel.
Negotiate scope before discussing compensation
At the VP level, the reporting structure, budget authority, and number of direct reports define the role as much as the title. Clarify those parameters before the final offer stage so your negotiation is grounded in the actual scope you're accepting.
Vice President of Clinical Services Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vice president of clinical servicess?
Viasat, Journey, and Banner Health are hiring the most vice president of clinical servicess right now, with openings concentrated in New York, California, and Georgia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Health systems undergoing network expansion and large managed care organizations account for a significant share of active postings.
How many vice president of clinical services jobs are remote?
About 86% of vice president of clinical services openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with the highest remote share found in utilization management, population health, and telehealth-focused roles. Positions tied to direct inpatient oversight or multi-site facility leadership are more likely to require an on-site or hybrid presence.
How do you become a vice president of clinical services?
Start by earning a clinical degree and licensure, then build direct patient care experience before moving into unit or department management. Progress through director-level roles where you gain budget authority, staff management, and cross-functional exposure. Completing a graduate degree in health administration or a related field strengthens your candidacy, and sponsoring measurable quality or operational initiatives creates the portfolio of outcomes hiring committees expect at the VP level.
Can you get a vice president of clinical services job with limited leadership experience?
Moving directly into a VP role without prior director-level experience is uncommon, but candidates who have led significant system-wide initiatives or managed large interdisciplinary teams in a director or senior manager capacity can be competitive. Smaller health systems, federally qualified health centers, and behavioral health organizations sometimes promote strong internal directors earlier than large academic medical centers would.
What does the vice president of clinical services interview process look like?
The process typically begins with a recruiter or HR screen, followed by separate interviews with the chief nursing officer, chief medical officer, and HR leadership. Finalists are often asked to present a strategic plan or respond to a clinical operations scenario in front of a panel that may include board members. Reference checks and a background verification step generally precede the formal offer.
Where can I find and apply to vice president of clinical services jobs?
You can find and apply to vice president of clinical services jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and apply directly to each one that fits your experience and target setting.
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