Enterprise Strategic Director, Signature Services - Cardiovascular

About the role

The Enterprise Strategic Director, Cardiovascular at PeaceHealth is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for cardiovascular services across the PeaceHealth system. This role works closely with physician leaders, executive leadership, and regional teams to develop and execute a unified strategy that advances clinical quality, improves patient outcomes, and supports long-term organizational growth.

Responsibilities

• Leads the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of assigned programs, services, and care delivery models aligned with the strategic vision for the signature services.
• Analyzes market trends and organizational performance to identify growth opportunities and provides strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Oversees the development and execution of new programs and services in collaboration with other internal and external stakeholders.
• Promotes efficient and safe resource utilization and achievement of performance targets by overseeing staffing models.
• Establishes and implements a collaborative governance framework to provide effective oversight of assigned signature services.
• Recommends enhancements to reporting structures to ensure coordination and high-quality care across the continuum.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to drive successful execution of strategic initiatives; monitors, evaluates, and reports progress towards goals while ensuring alignment with organizational standards, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintains knowledge of national benchmarks in financial performance, staffing, quality and patient safety, ensuring signature services outcomes meet or exceed industry standards.
• Cultivates strong, collaborative relationships across the signature services, with a focus on physician and clinician engagement and alignment among all clinical stakeholders.
• Develops and monitors key performance metrics (KPI)s regularly communicating outcomes, trends, and progress to physicians, staff, and organizational leadership.
• Drives operational excellence through expense management, cost containment, business development, and strategic planning initiatives that enhance signature services performance.
• Provides financial oversight for assigned signature services, including operating revenues and expense management, and leads the evaluation, prioritization, and review and approval of capital investments.
• Champions a culture of continuous improvement, safety, and excellence across all aspects of care delivery.
• Provides support to regional operations to ensure compliance with all regulatory and accreditation requirements and represents PeaceHealth’s interest at local, state and national levels.
• Engages in professional organizations to strengthen industry relationships and stays current on best practices.
• Presents signature services innovations and outcomes at local and/or national forums as appropriate.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in signature service lines, including demonstrated leadership within integrated health system or managed care organization.
• Bachelor's Degree: Healthcare Administration, Hospital Administration or in a medical or clinical field.
• Master's Degree: Healthcare, Hospital Administration, Clinical or Medical Field, or related field (preferred).

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead, influence, and drive results within a complex matrixed organizational environment.
• Ability to build collaborative, productive relationships with system, regional, and community leadership.
• Effectively partner and work closely with ambulatory, acute, and post-acute organizations across PeaceHealth.
• Understand the use of evidence in decision making within acute and ambulatory care environments.
• Excellent verbal, negotiation, and written communication skills, particularly with key stakeholder groups such as physicians, other clinicians, and all levels of leadership.
• Strong business acumen and negotiating skills in a highly complex, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated strong customer service and collaboration skills across and with diverse key stakeholders and all levels of leadership.
• Ability to build collaborative and respectful relationships with clinical, administrative, and physician staff and all levels of management.
• Demonstrated innovative, strategic thinker, and change agent with the ability to think broadly across the system.
• Understanding, commitment, and role model to PeaceHealth’s mission, values, and leadership model.
• Extensive knowledge of ambulatory regulatory compliance relating to both state and federal healthcare guidelines and requirements.