VP Ambulatory Operations-Physician Enterprise

Job Summary

The Vice President of Operations for the Physician Enterprise will provide strategic and operational leadership across a large, complex, multi-specialty physician enterprise. This role involves translating organizational strategy into consistent execution across ambulatory practices, service lines, and clinical locations. The VP will partner closely with physician and administrative leaders to strengthen clinic operations, improve performance, create operational readiness, and advance an integrated approach to care.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership across a complex, multi-specialty Physician Enterprise, supporting ambulatory and clinic operations while advancing strategic priorities across assigned service areas.
• Partner closely with physician-administrator dyad and triad leaders to strengthen clinic operations and build effective relationships with physicians, advanced practice providers, leaders, and staff.
• Develop and execute multi-horizon operational strategies and action plans aligned with organizational priorities, value-based care objectives, and evolving healthcare delivery models.
• Lead efforts to integrate hospital- and clinic-based services, promote operational consistency, and identify opportunities to standardize and scale successful practices across locations.
• Provide strategic and operational support to service line leaders, hospital presidents, market executives, and Physician Enterprise leadership, effectively influencing across organizational boundaries and through relationships rather than direct authority alone.
• Develop and manage operational and strategic performance measures, using data to identify variation, improve access and growth, strengthen patient and provider experience, and drive accountability for results.
• Oversee budgets and resource allocation, ensuring financial stewardship and alignment of personnel and other resources with strategic and operational priorities.
• Lead and develop a geographically dispersed leadership team through coaching, performance management, succession development, clear accountability, and intentional engagement across in-person and virtual environments.
• Support provider and staff recruitment, retention, onboarding, and development while building scalable leadership and operational practices across the enterprise.
• Lead change initiatives and operational readiness efforts associated with new programs, services, technologies, partnerships, and evolving care delivery models.
• Promote improvement across engagement, quality, service, patient experience, growth and access, technology, standardization, stewardship, and academic priorities.

Requirements

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare, or a related field. Significant progressive leadership experience within ambulatory, physician practice, medical group, or Physician Enterprise operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex healthcare operations across multiple locations, specialties, or service areas.
• Demonstrated ability to develop leaders and high-performing teams.
• Experience partnering with physicians and senior healthcare leaders and influencing outcomes across complex organizational structures.
• Preferred: Master’s degree in Business, Healthcare, or a related field. Experience working within a physician-administrator dyad or triad leadership model. Multi-specialty physician practice or medical group leadership experience. Experience within an academic health system or academic medical environment. Experience leading geographically dispersed teams through a combination of in-person and virtual leadership.