Enterprise Strategic Director, Signature Services - Oncology

About the role

The Enterprise Strategic Director, Signature Services - Oncology at PeaceHealth is responsible for providing enterprise-wide strategic and operational leadership for oncology services across the PeaceHealth system. This role sets the path for the future of oncology care, driving growth, innovation, and service line performance.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes market trends and organizational performance to identify growth opportunities and provides strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Leads the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of assigned programs, services, and care delivery models aligned with the strategic vision for the signature services.
• Partners with clinical and administrative leaders across PeaceHealth to optimize staffing models, ensuring efficient and safe resource utilization and achievement of performance targets.
• Establishes and implements a collaborative governance framework to provide effective oversight of assigned signature services.
• Leverages data-driven decision-making, operational excellence, and strong physician partnerships to achieve quality, financial, and strategic objectives while identifying opportunities for program development, service expansion, and operational improvement.
• Works closely with community, regional, and system operational leaders across ambulatory, acute, and post-acute settings to support the achievement of annual budget, growth, and performance targets.
• 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 (KPIs) 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.
• Presents signature services innovations and outcomes at local and/or national forums as appropriate.
• Engages in professional organizations to strengthen industry relationships and stays current on best practices.
• Addresses complex operational and strategic issues in partnership with legal, marketing communications, medical staff and other key stakeholders to enhance the growth and strategic direction of the signature services.
• Supports regional operations to ensure compliance with all regulatory and accreditation requirements and represents PeaceHealth’s interest at local, state and national levels.

Qualifications

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