Vice President, Strategic Planning

A $24 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest non-governmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates 92,000 employees, 40 hospitals, 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, and a 4.1- million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.7 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state, and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial, and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation’s best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on its Honor Roll of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. For more information, go to UPMC.com.

ROLE SUMMARY
In this highly visible executive position, and in collaboration with UPMC executives, the Vice President, Strategic Planning will identify strategically insightful ways to fully leverage UPMC's assets, resources, and market opportunities to fulfill UPMC's strategic direction. The Vice President, Strategic Planning will support UPMC executives in identifying and executing organizational and business development opportunities.  The Vice President, Strategic Planning will lead strategic planning, market analysis, and market research activities across the organization; integrate and coordinate business unit strategic planning activities into a cohesive direction for UPMC; surveil market and external dynamics and articulate the impact upon UPMC. This role will lead a team while working across the entire enterprise to lead key strategic initiatives to accelerate health at UPMC.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Healthcare Industry and the data related to healthcare, and more specifically the IDFS Model. Develops forward-thinking strategies to enable UPMC’s continued growth and success.
• Interpret broad conceptual frameworks and translate these into action-oriented initiatives for UPMC.
• Position UPMC to fulfill its vision and mission by specifically identifying critical opportunities and strategic priorities for UPMC as a system as well as the various discrete operating units;
• This role will coordinate efforts across the system's many businesses and work with Executive Staff, hospital Presidents and other business unit executives to assist them in defining various strategic objectives and outlining key annual objectives; coordinate strategic initiatives across business units, where appropriate. 
• In conjunction with Vice President of National and Regional Marketing and Vice President of Marketing Communications, identify high priority programs for communication and marketing support.
• Develops and articulate a strong vision around change to get stakeholders from various Divisions and Functions across UPMC to combine efforts and rapidly achieve objectives. Must be able to move rapidly from strategy development to leading the implementation of key initiatives to achieve these strategies. 
• Manage team of professional staff with portfolio of multiple projects and clients.  Prioritize key projects; allocate staff time to ensure timely completion of deliverables; ensure overall quality of deliverables.
• Identify and frame project/client needs and ensure appropriate issues and system priorities are addressed.  Coordinate with other Departments (e.g., Finance, HR, IT, Legal, etc.) and business units to ensure strategies address the full continuum of issues.
• Appropriately scope and resource projects, recognizing both client needs and value of deliverable to organization.  Communicate and collaborate with constituents to ensure coordination, streamline work and eliminate duplication.
• Develop new capabilities while continuously adjusting the capabilities, resources and infrastructure of the enterprise to better meet system and client needs.  Develop new and better ways to capture and convey market and external dynamics to diverse audiences.
• Develop and maintain Department's infrastructure while also develop appropriate Department policies and procedures. Recruit, lead and mentor a service oriented staff to improve level of Department's talent, ensuring they possess the appropriate mix of skills, expertise, and experience to fulfill the Department's role.  Mentor and develop managers and directors; develop skills and refine management acumen while providing timely, candid, and effective performance feedback.
• With an understanding of current organizational priorities and objectives, manage budget and other administrative responsibilities to deliver value while remaining within defined parameters.
• Develop a team that performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. 

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Appropriate undergraduate pedigree with a Master’s level degree in Business Administration, Health Administration or a quantitative field of study (e.g., mathematics, economics, sciences, finance, etc.) strongly preferred.  
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience (e.g., strategy, planning, operations, finance, business development) required. 
• Prior experience should include strong project management (framing projects, developing work plans, completing deliverables, ability to move initiatives forward etc.)
• Highly relational interpersonal style, dynamic and inspirational, crisp and concise communication style both written and verbal.
• Past experience in leading and developing high performing teams, recruiting, mentoring, providing timely and accurate feedback, etc.
• Broad experience and skill in client management, leading across an organization through influence while successfully communicating with diverse stakeholders and audiences.
• Skill and experience with contemporary technology and tools related to advanced analytics and business intelligence capable of manipulating complex datasets, interpreting data, creating decision-making tools, etc.

Nominations and expressions of interest should be sent to: arsen.beremesh@divsearch.com   All requests are confidential.

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