Uspi Chief Strategy Officer - Dallas, Texas

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The USPI Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) will be a key member of the USPI Leadership team and Tenet Healthcare’s Commercial Operations leadership team. The USPI CSO is responsible for organic growth across the ambulatory surgery center and surgical hospital portfolio as well as USPI corporate strategy functional capabilities. The role includes management of USPI Market Chief Strategy Officers, Business Development, Service Line Strategy Group as well as strategic programs that support USPI’s annual and multi-year growth objectives. The individual will also collaborate with corporate functions including but not limited to Communications, Marketing, Data & Analytics, Business Planning. In addition, the USPI CSO is expected to be an active participant in USPI Leadership team forums, management processes and has a leadership role in the annual business planning process.

The USPI CSO will:

• Demonstrate excellent formal presentation and interpersonal communication skills that result in understanding of, and commitment to, strategic initiatives.
• Foster collaboration with physician group(s) and health system partner(s) to engage in strategic plans to achieve desired results in quality, service, operations, and financial metrics
• Participate as part of USPI’s corporate leadership team to set system-wide priorities, drive business planning processes and address strategic opportunities
• Drive higher acuity, service line growth, including leading USPI’s Service Line Strategy Group, to support operations to implement new or expand service line capabilities
• Perform all duties with consistently high ethical standards and strict adherence to company policies and procedures.
• Proactively identify strategic growth opportunities across the portfolio or market specific to meet market demand and increase USPI market share through organic growth
• Evaluate, develop and align resources to implement and monitor strategies across the network, including collaborating with USPI market leadership to adapt strategies to optimize impact
• Collaborate effectively with Tenet Healthcare corporate functions to leverage enterprise resources and best practices to optimize business outcomes
• Lead USPI corporate strategy functional capabilities to support the development and implementation of system-wide best practices and growth programs
• Actively utilize a data-driven approach to understand market dynamics, physician practice trends, and competition to inform and prioritize strategies for USPI
• Effectively manage and develop a high performing Market Chief Strategy Officer (Market CSOs) team, which includes responsibility for the national Business Development team members who report to respective Market CSOs

Important Skills and Competencies:

• Seeks out and decisively confronts and resolves issues or barriers to success, including uncompetitive or ineffective processes, practices, and people
• Translates complex strategies into aggressive and achievable team/individual goals, targets and action plans that deliver results
• Understands financial indicators/levers and delivers earnings and cash flow at or above budget, regardless of changes in the macro and operational environment
• Maintains ongoing feedback, measurement and assessment processes that determine progress to plan and, if necessary, lead to course correction
• Develops and communicates strategies that achieve competitive advantage, in areas such as productivity, quality, culture, talent, internal/external volume and revenue growth initiatives.
• Demonstrates high visibility networking and interacting constantly with key stakeholders to inform and advise on strategic initiatives, progress, healthcare trends, etc.
• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity by seeking out new information and market awareness and uses that knowledge to improve the business

Education:

A Bachelor’s degree in Business, or appropriately relevant field, is required. A Master’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration or Public Health is preferred.

Experience:

Minimum of at least 10 years of experience in the healthcare industry with knowledge of the industry dynamics, business development and strategic planning

Other requirements:

• Proven experience in using data to drive strategic planning and implementation
• Capacity to work independently with minimal supervision
• Skilled at team building and has a track-record of being a collaborative and effective manager
• Possess and demonstrate excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Exhibited success in a business development and / or strategy role in healthcare
• Ability to travel up to 30-50% of time, depending on need

USPI complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.