Assistant Vice President of Strategy and Transformation

Position Summary

Reporting to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer (CSTO), the Assistant Vice President of Strategy and Transformation directs overall enterprise-wide strategy development and implementation, working closely with senior leadership. Leads Stony Brook Medicine and the Life Science’s Strategy Management process and assures goals are met. Oversees the department of Strategy Design and Implementation, Strategic Informatics and Innovation.

Duties of an Assistant Vice President of Strategy and Transformation may include the following but are not limited to:

• In partnership with the CSTO, sets the strategic plan for the enterprise involving key members of senior administrative and physician leadership in the process.
• Designs, develops, and directs the overall strategy management process ensuring it is data-driven and outcomes-oriented.
• Ensures sound and effective processes are in place to optimize strategy management functions. Ensures timely and accurate documentation of the results of activities and key measures of success.
• Ensures the ongoing analysis of systems and processes to identify opportunities for improvement in the strategy management process. Leads the implementation of process improvements.
• Monitors, in partnership with senior leaders, the measured outcomes of strategy action plans, identifies opportunities for improvement, and leads strategic activities to improve those measured outcomes.
• Serves as the Executive Leader of the Departments of Strategy Development and Implementation, Innovation, and Strategic Analytics.
• Ensures growth and physician-specific data is trended and made available for business planning.
• Ensures all required measures are collected, validated for data integrity, and reported to appropriate leaders for action planning and accountability.
• Ensures staff development, counseling, performance evaluations, and hiring of positions for all direct reporting areas and models all Leadership Commitments. (attached)
• Develops and maintains policies and procedures for areas of responsibility.
• Manages the budget for areas of direct responsibility.
• Works collaboratively with all executives and key stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Ensures rigorous, data driven business plans are developed to support strategy initiatives.
• Facilitates, supports, and organizes strategy and innovation teams and provides staff support for such teams.
• Ensures that strategy and innovation teams are effectively structured and managed to meet hospital, regional and corporate strategic objectives.
• Remains current concerning industry-wide, best practices and collaboration and consistently employs and encourages best practices.
• Educates Governing Body and hospital administrative staff concerning current trends in disruptive and innovative strategy. Assesses Stony Brook Medicine’s risk and performance in relationship to these trends and makes appropriate recommendations for change.
• Maintains and regularly updates strategy oversite teams/committees.
• Works with appropriate education staff to assure that hospital and medical staff education activities reflect recommendations formulated by process improvement committees.
• Ensures education of regulatory standards and compliance by all direct report departments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in any health related field
• Minimum of 10 years of strategy, hospital or consultation experience.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in healthcare leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills required
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Proficiency with computer systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree or Doctorate Degree in any health related field

• Bachelors of healthcare management, business management preferred, with experience in strategic planning/implementation, human centered design, and Jobs to be Done Theory.

Special Notes: Resume/CV should be included with the online application.

In accordance with the New York State Department of Health (DOH) regulation that all hospitals and nursing homes “continuously require all personnel to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” Candidates who are not already partially vaccinated must obtain the first dose of the vaccine within three (3) calendar days of acceptance of conditional job offer and must obtain any subsequent doses in accordance with the vaccine protocol Candidates who are partially vaccinated, but not yet fully vaccinated, must complete their vaccination series within three (3) calendar days of job offer or in accordance with vaccine manufacture protocol, whichever comes later.

The regulation also includes those who may be affiliated with or interact with employees of a hospital or nursing home. The regulation allows for limited exemptions with reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable law.

Posting Overview: This position will remain posted until filled or for a maximum of 90 days. An initial review of all applicants will occur two weeks from the posting date. Candidates are advised on the application that for full consideration, applications must be received before the initial review date (which is within two weeks of the posting date).

If within the initial review no candidate was selected to fill the position posted, additional applications will be considered for the posted position; however, the posting will close once a finalist is identified, and at minimal, two weeks after the initial posting date. Please note, that if no candidate were identified and hired within 90 days from initial posting, the posting would close for review, and possibly reposted at a later date.

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• Stony Brook Medicine is a smoke free environment. Smoking is strictly prohibited anywhere on campus, including parking lots and outdoor areas on the premises.
• All Hospital positions maybe subject to changes in pass days and shifts as necessary.
• This position may require the wearing of respiratory protection, which may prohibit the wearing of facial hair.
• This function/position maybe designated as “essential.” This means that when the Hospital is faced with an institutional emergency, employees in such positions may be required to remain at their work location or to report to work to protect, recover, and continue operations at Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook University Hospital and related facilities.

Prior to start date, the selected candidate must meet the following requirements:

• Successfully complete pre-employment physical examination and obtain medical clearance from Stony Brook Medicine's Employee Health Services*
• Complete electronic reference check with a minimum of three (3) professional references.
• Successfully complete a 4 panel drug screen*
• Meet Regulatory Requirements for pre employment screenings.
• Provide a copy of any required New York State license(s)/certificate(s).

Failure to comply with any of the above requirements could result in a delayed start date and/or revocation of the employment offer.

• The hiring department will be responsible for any fee incurred for examination.

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