Health Partnerships Strategy / Administrative Associate II

Senior leadership role within the Office of Health Partnerships focused on health-related strategy development, support, and enhancement of high-value partnerships in alignment with MSU’s Mission. Reports to the SVP for Health Partnerships and serves as a key liaison between MSU Health Care, Henry Ford Health, and community partners.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the development of health-related market and service-line strategies across MSU Health Care.
• Partner with academic chairs, physician leadership, and executives to develop integrated clinical, academic, research, and partnership strategies.
• Design and facilitate cross-entity strategy retreats, market assessments, and planning sessions that drive shared priorities and actionable outcomes.
• Develop or adapt processes to standardize intake, prioritization, and evaluation frameworks for partnership opportunities.
• Serve as the primary strategy and partnership liaison between MSU Health Care and Henry Ford Health, ensuring alignment with HFH enterprise priorities and resourcing models.
• Coordinate communication, planning, and approvals to support collaboration between MSU and Henry Ford Health.
• Identify, structure, and advance health partnerships, including joint ventures, affiliations, clinical service agreements, and other partnerships across the healthcare industry spectrum.
• Support contract negotiations and structure, ensuring alignment on economic, governance, compliance, and long-term strategic value.
• Translate strategic concepts into executable initiatives and ensure readiness for launch and operational transition, including change management.
• Develop, deploy, and manage review and approval processes for joint initiatives requiring dual governance (MSU and Henry Ford).
• Prepare and present materials for Joint Operating Committee (JOC), Strategic Direction Workgroups, MSU Health Care Board, and other executive forums.
• Ensure initiatives move efficiently through governance with clear decision rights and accountability.
• Collaborate with market analytics and other teams to develop and translate market intelligence, financial modeling, referral data, and performance metrics into strategic insights.
• Track execution and outcomes using dashboards, balanced scorecards, quarterly reviews, or other modalities.

Requirements

• Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Business Administration, Accounting, Management, or a related field.
• Five to eight years of related and progressively more responsible work experience in financial or accounting practices, developing research projects, funding and grant practices, or experience in a field related to the area of employment.
• Solid analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual thinking capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing ambiguity and delivering measurable business impact.
• Strong structured problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to lead in both direct and matrix reporting environments.
• Experience developing KPIs, dashboards, and performance measurement frameworks.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Products, namely Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Schedule

Standard 8–5, with the selected candidate required to be on campus at least 3 days per week in East Lansing.