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Advocate Aurora Health · 4 months ago

Vice President, Cancer National Service Line Illinois Division

AAO Oak Brook - 2025 Windsor Dr

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$97.75/hr - $156.40/hr

10+ years exp

Advocate Aurora Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. The Vice President of Cancer National Service Line for the Illinois Division will oversee service line operations, lead strategic initiatives, and ensure alignment with organizational goals to enhance clinical quality and operational efficiency.

Health Care

Responsibilities

Leads the development and implementation of new programs and services in an efficient and cost-effective manner

Leads integration and optimization of operations across the Division. Supports merger and acquisition activity, including providing subject matter expertise on candidate assessments, facility and equipment needs, existing care gaps, competitive analysis, and workforce plan adjustments. Supports efforts to achieve specialty based national certifications and accreditations to improve clinical quality, enhance payor alignment, and public recognition

Ensures alignment of performance metrics and organizational strategy across the service line and acts as a liaison of indirect service line areas as assigned by the leadership team

Leads fiscal reviews of internal resources to promote an efficient and effective environment for all departments/areas of responsibility. Responsible for overall budget related to respective NSL Division services

Ensures workforce strategy that supports the business strategy of their respective NSL Division, including staffing, aligning skills with roles, leadership development, diversity, and inclusion. Responsible for all staff selection, budgeted FTE, and maintaining salaries of workforce in accordance with policies and guidelines set by Human Resources and Finance

Responsible for enhancing existing services or creating new services across the care continuum based upon observation and development with Enterprise and Division service line stakeholders

Assesses technology, industry, professional and national developments, reimbursement trends, and market dynamics to develop short- term and long-term strategic plans. Responsible for maintaining a broad knowledge of clinical service line products and services and articulates the respective value propositions to enhance safety and health outcomes, reduce clinical variation, cost of care, and enhance revenue opportunities

Responsible for value-based care, episode bundles, and/or population health as related to the respective NSL Division services

Develops and implements specific operational goals and objectives on an annual basis in support of the hospital’s strategic plan and in concert with the overall service line plan for their respective NSL Division services

Provides thought leadership and guidance to facility and physician service group leaders on NSL related issues/decisions

Demonstrates knowledge/expertise regarding change readiness, cultural change, and impact of change on organizations

Leads and oversees quality control during the development of process maps and frameworks that support improved organizational design and alignment for the service line

Assists in defining and developing the necessary resources to appropriately support research and educational missions aligned with a premier health system

In coordination with Division presidents and Area leaders, responsible for the development of long range operational and clinical service line growth plans, growth, and performance excellence initiatives at the facility level

Supports the activities of the enterprise Foundation, participating in community events and representing their respective NSL Division to the greater marketplace

Ensures alignment with Enterprise and Division service line administrators and leaders responsible for local implementation of daily operations

Represents their respective NSL in local, state, regional and national organizations, and societies

Responsible for the social imperative initiative to create greater access to all underrepresented communities

Collaborates with marketing to enhance the brand strength of their respective NSL services

Recognizes and values research, new discoveries, novel care models, and the educational mandates of an academic learning health system; creates a clinical environment that supports and facilitates the academic missions

Qualification

Healthcare AdministrationStrategic PlanningOperational ManagementFinancial Systems KnowledgeCommunication SkillsChange ManagementProblem SolvingTeam LeadershipCollaboration

Required

Bachelors degree in Healthcare Administration or Business Administration

Typically requires 10 years of experience in physician practice, healthcare administrative or strategic planning, with at least 5 years of management in/oversight of physician practices, healthcare administration, or strategic planning including developing and executing multiyear business plans

Engages in rigorous problem-solving definition, data collection, and analysis, then makes good decisions in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity; Sees the big picture and has a long-term perspective, while balancing it against short-term realities

Crafts and shares inspiring visions of attainable futures, energizes teams and drives organizational change to achieve these visions, and fosters innovation

Recognizes the critical importance of integration and collaboration in achieving high performance; Convenes and nurtures cross-system teams and works effectively in the 'white spaces.'

Experience and knowledge of the principles and practices of healthcare planning and management sufficient to manage, direct and coordinate the operation of a large, multi-specialty service line

Experience and knowledge of the medical environment, physician group practice, managed care, physician compensation, healthcare contracting, acute care delivery, ancillary services and regulations, financial and operational systems

Must possess exceptional communication skills that will foster trust, clear vision, mutual respect and positive staff and physician relations

Skill in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgment, creativity, discretion, and decision-making to achieve organizational objectives