VP, Operational Excellence - #1 Hospital in CA

Job Description

The Vice President, Operational Excellence establishes and leads the Accelerating Excellence Office and its portfolio of strategic and operational transformation initiatives. This position serves as the institution's senior administrative leader for transformation governance, value creation, portfolio prioritization, benefits realization, and transition of major initiatives to sustainable operational ownership.

The Vice President partners with the executive, physician and operations leaders as well as faculty and administrative leaders to translate institutional priorities into measurable improvements in financial and operational performance, and organizational value.

The Vice President is accountable for the AE operating model, portfolio governance, initiative prioritization and performance, executive escalation, reporting and project management discipline, consultant transition, and development of internal transformation capability. The position ensures that major initiatives have clear accountability, adequate resources, measurable outcomes, disciplined execution, and sustainable performance beyond implementation.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, clinical field, finance, strategy, operations, or a related field. (minimum)

Master's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, clinical field, finance, strategy, operations, or a related field. (preferred)

Experience:

Twelve years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare, academic medicine, healthcare consulting, strategy, operations, finance, transformation, or a related field. (minimum)

Seven years of experience leading complex enterprise transformation, operating-model change, performance improvement, portfolio governance, or large-scale organizational change.

5 years experience in a large academic medical center, integrated health system, physician enterprise, or similarly complex, matrixed organization.

5 years experience leading initiatives involving revenue growth, cost improvement, productivity, access, capacity, clinical operations, workforce effectiveness, enterprise integration, or organizational performance.

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.