Director, Strategic Planning
Emeryville, CAFull-time$188–301K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Director, Strategic Planning directs strategic planning, business development, new product development, and business planning for Sutter Health and its regional affiliates. The role identifies business and product opportunities, conducts feasibility studies with executives, and links strategic plans to operating-unit business plans and budgets. It also implements programs and projects intended to enhance patient access and experience. The position is onsite at least four days per week.
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Full job description
We are so glad you are interested in joining Sutter Health!
Organization:
SHSO-Sutter Health System Office-Bay
Position Overview:
Implements programs and projects that enhance patient access and experience to make Sutter Health and its regional affiliates the customer-centered system of choice. Directs the strategic planning, business development, new product development, and business planning for Sutter Health and its regional affiliates. Identifies areas for business development and new products while completing feasibility studies in collaboration with Sutter Health executives. Ensures appropriate strategies have a direct linkage between the strategic plan, operating unit business plans, and budget processes.
This is an onsite role, minimum 4 days in office.
Job Description :
This is an onsite role, minimum 4 days in office .
EDUCATION:
Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.
Bachelor's: Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Public Administration, or related field
TYPICAL EXPERIENCE:
12 years recent relevant experience
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
Advanced knowledge of methods and techniques for strategic planning, business and product development, risk management and financing, marketing strategies and tactics, and communications planning within an integrated and highly matrixed environment.
Established knowledge of healthcare operations, physician group, ambulatory, and patient care financing.
Diverse and thorough knowledge of healthcare trends, industry direction, regulatory compliance, competitive intelligence, and market research with the ability to integrate the information into actionable strategic and long-range plans.
Established knowledge of the advanced managed care marketplace and strategies that promote enterprise-wide, integrated solutions for payers and plan sponsors.
Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with audiences across all areas and levels within Sutter Health as well as external organizations.
Set priorities which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities and prioritize assignments to complete work in a timely manner.
Verbal and writing skills to effectively communicate with diverse groups such as: executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
Make presentations to persuade others to accept a specific opinion or action, or to provide information and instruction.
Advanced knowledge of developing creative financial solutions and make projections using present and future values, loan computations, and annuity calculations.
Negotiate or exchange ideas, information, and opinions with others to formulate policies and programs and/or to arrive jointly at decisions, conclusions, or solutions.
Job Shift:
Days
Schedule:
Full Time
Days of the Week:
Monday - Friday
Weekend Requirements:
As Needed
Benefits:
Yes
Unions:
No
Position Status:
Exempt
Weekly Hours:
40
Employee Status:
Regular
Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.
Pay Range is $187,886.40 to $300,622.40 / annual salary
The posted pay range is based on the position's primary work location. Candidates who reside and work outside of that location may be subject to a different pay range based on their work location. Candidate starting salaries consider multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health’s comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.
How this job compares
Set against the 584 open Strategic Planning jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$188–301K/yr
- California median$169–251K/yr45 salary ranges
- US median$126–212K/yr459 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $244K, is 17% above the California median midpoint ($209K) — in the middle half of Strategic Planning salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 59 open Strategic Planning jobs in California and 584 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril5 open
- Oracle3 open
- Sutter Health (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Strategic Planning postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 491 postings).
- Education
- 211 of the 584 open Strategic Planning jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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