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Primary Location:

JHHS - Jewish Hospital

Address:

200 Abraham Flexner Way
Louisville, KY 40202

Shift:

Salary Shift (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

About UofL Health:
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.

With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description:

Position Summary and Purpose

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.

Essential Functions:

I. Transformation Management Office (TMO) Leadership
- 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

II. Transformation Execution & Performance Management
- 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

III. Enterprise Strategy & Strategic Planning
- 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

IV. Change Leadership & Organizational Alignment
- 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

V. Analytics, Insights & Strategic Decision Support
- 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

VI. Business Development, Transactions & Strategic Partnerships
- 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

VII. Team Leadership & Capability Development
- 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

Other Qualifications

- Demonstrated leadership in managing teams, complex analyses, and enterprise initiatives
- Advanced quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including financial and operational modeling
- Strong strategic thinking combined with execution-oriented mindset
- Proven ability to lead in complex, matrixed, and politically dynamic environments
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence and align senior executives and cross-functional teams
- Strong executive presence and sound business judgment

Additional Job Description:

Job Requirements

(Education, Experience, Licensure and Certification)

- 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

Job Competency:

Skills, Knowledge, or Abilities.

- 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

UofL Health Core Expectation:

At UofL Health, we expect all our employees to live the values of honesty, integrity and compassion and demonstrate these values in their interactions with others and as they deliver excellent patient care by:
- Honoring and caring for the dignity of all persons in mind, body, and spirit
- Ensuring the highest quality of care for those we serve
- Working together as a team to achieve our goals
- Improving continuously by listening, and asking for and responding to feedback
- Seeking new and better ways to meet the needs of those we serve
- Using our resources wisely
- Understanding how each of our roles contributes to the success of UofL Health