Vice President, Corporate Strategy

About the role

The Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Lifepoint Health is responsible for formulating enterprise strategy, long-range planning, competitive positioning, M&A evaluation, and business-line strategy across acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and behavioral health. This role is structured to scale through consultant leverage rather than headcount.

Pillar 01 - Corporate Strategy

• Own enterprise strategy formulation: portfolio analysis, market entry/exit decisions, competitive positioning, and the enterprise strategic thesis.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the 3-5-year Long-Range Plan (LRP) in partnership with Finance and key domain leaders, ensuring it cascades into annual plans and initiative portfolios.
• Partner with subject matter experts to support the development of solution sets and initiatives, including problem scoping, solution set design, initiative build, opportunity sizing, and high-level roadmap.
• Drive annual strategic planning, ensuring alignment between LRP priorities and in-year execution goals at enterprise and line-of-business levels.
• Lead M&A pipeline evaluation, partnership assessment, and market entry/exit analysis; develop investment theses with rigorous financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Own business-line strategy across acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and behavioral health - ensuring each line has a defensible competitive position and growth thesis.
• Design and facilitate Monthly Business Review (MBR) agenda and enterprise initiative governance, including stage-gate prioritization and go/no-go decisions.
• Develop scenario models under regulatory uncertainty (e.g., OBBA, CMS policy shifts, payer dynamics) to inform board-level decision-making.
• Own the enterprise strategic narrative for ELT, Board, and investor audiences - translating complex analyses into compelling, board-ready presentations.
• Lead and develop a team of strategy and planning professionals, fostering a high-performance, consulting-grade culture of intellectual rigor and strategic clarity.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier talent with deep healthcare domain expertise and strong analytical capabilities.
• Manage external consultant engagements - setting the strategic frame, defining hypotheses, managing deliverable quality, and ensuring outputs connect to enterprise priorities.
• Build team capabilities in financial modeling, competitive intelligence, strategic communication, and scenario planning.

Strategy Team Leadership & Development

• Lead and develop a team of strategy and planning professionals, fostering a high-performance, consulting-grade culture of intellectual rigor and strategic clarity.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier talent with deep healthcare domain expertise and strong analytical capabilities.
• Manage external consultant engagements - setting the strategic frame, defining hypotheses, managing deliverable quality, and ensuring outputs connect to enterprise priorities.
• Build team capabilities in financial modeling, competitive intelligence, strategic communication, and scenario planning.

Role Boundaries

• Not a program management or PMO role: The VP does not manage project timelines, status reports, or delivery tracking. That is the mandate of Enterprise Transformation.
• Not an execution role: The VP stops at the charter and hands to Transformation. Strategy sets direction; Transformation delivers outcomes.
• Not a generalist consulting role: The VP must have deep healthcare sector expertise - provider economics, reimbursement dynamics, regulatory landscape - not just a consulting toolkit.
• Not a chief of staff role: The VP owns an independent strategic mandate with direct enterprise impact, not administrative coordination or executive scheduling.

Why join us

• We Believe That Investing In Our Employees Is The First Step To Providing Excellent Patient Care.
• Comprehensive benefits include multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage, financial protection & PTO, higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match, employee well-being programs, and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree; MBA or master's in Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Finance, or related field strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in corporate strategy, healthcare strategy, or management consulting with deep healthcare sector focus.
• 7+ years in healthcare provider strategy or operations leadership roles within multi-site health systems.
• 5+ years at a top-tier management consulting firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or equivalent healthcare-focused strategy firm strongly preferred.
• 3+ years directly leading strategy teams and managing consultant engagements.
• Direct experience in M&A evaluation, long-range planning, and board-level strategic communication.
• Multi-site health system experience is strongly preferred; rural healthcare exposure a plus.