[Hiring] Associate Vice President, Operations @Vituity

Role Description

Join the Physician Partnership Where You Can Increase Your Impact. Vituity’s ownership model provides autonomy, local control, and a national system of support, so you can focus your attention where you want it to be – on your patients.

The Opportunity:

• Promote the Vituity Mission, Vision and Values to ensure a strong divisional culture.
• Develop and achieve divisional strategy, goals, priorities, and key performance indicators (KPIs) supporting the organization’s strategic plan.
• Mentor and empower the divisional leadership team to drive organizational and divisional strategy and achieve KPIs.
• Facilitate an integrated divisional leadership team and ensure oversight of practice lines while ensuring the Practice Line Vice President and Practice Line Business Partners remain accountable and responsible for outcomes.
• Facilitate an integrated divisional operations team that includes clinical and business leadership representatives from all practice lines within the division and Growth.
• Maintain awareness of each practice line’s operational performance metrics via divisional dashboard and promote continuous improvement.
• Ensure solid bidirectional communication across all aspects of the Division.
• Promote and support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives throughout the Division.
• Plan and execute divisional meetings.
• Partner with People Operations to manage people operations/human resources requirements such as FTE changes, evaluation process, and anything pertaining to people operations policies.
• Oversee Leadership Development Program components within the division to ensure organizational focuses and strategies are included.
• Facilitate knowledge-sharing across divisions teams to strengthen programs/initiatives, optimize resource utilization, and standardize practices to achieve improved quality of care.
• Align and manage divisional operational resources.
• Collaborate with the Innovation Team to cultivate ideas and explore solutions to challenging problems affecting sites.
• Promote innovation initiatives (i.e., innovation grant, transformational pilots, etc.) to ensure best practices are diffused across divisions.
• Provide support to Regional Directors and sites to maximize operational efficiencies to ensure profitability and oversee initiatives to address site under-performance.
• Ensure all practices lines provide meaningful value to the clients.
• Oversee site financial incentives and monitoring to ensure maximum financial achievement.
• Oversee CEO survey results for division, focusing on problem areas identified and connecting identified expansion opportunities for internal and external growth.
• Support contract renewals and follow up with Regional Directors for timely submissions.
• Responsible for Accounts Receivable compensation matrix for new contracts and contract addendums.
• Collaborate closely with the Growth team. Support Vituity Health System Strategy (executive engagement, growth, operational excellence) and system specific initiatives and priorities.
• Actively participate in the request for proposal (RFP) process for expected contracts within the division.
• Ensure a successful and standardized startup process including site support, integration of new practice lines at a current site, integration of Practice Administrators when appropriate, supporting the onboarding of new Medical Directors, etc.
• Share any potential external growth opportunities.
• Recruit, interview, hire, and train management-level staff.
• Provide constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Handle discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy.
• Establish accountability goals for direct reports.
• Lead, direct, and review the work of team members to accomplish program initiatives, operational plans, and results within schedule and budget.
• Provide primary input to hiring, firing, promotion, performance, and rewards decisions for direct reports, including the hiring or firing of employees, in accordance with organization guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in a discipline related to the duties of the position, and eight (8) years of progressively responsible related work experience required.
• Six (6) years of experience in a mid- to senior-level management capacity required.
• Or, a combination of education and experience for a combined 14 years that demonstrates the attainment of the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may substitute for the education requirement required.
• Experience in health care, physician practice management, and multi-location operations required.
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration/Healthcare Administration or related field preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to generate consensus in decisions and encourage creativity and innovation.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and able to communicate effectively and persuasively at all levels.
• Strong grounding in healthcare management ideally encompassing both hospital-based management experience and physician practice management.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change including identifying and supporting change agents, demonstrating accountability, and ownership of execution and results.
• Understanding of the physician’s clinical, management, and leadership roles in the healthcare environment to assist the physician group clients in developing a competitive advantage in their marketplace.
• Proven ability to design and implement new programs, transform care delivery, and diversify revenue.
• Ability to motivate and develop the potential of others.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to bring teams together to develop and implement programs.
• Ability to maximize the effectiveness of teams to provide the highest-level quality of service possible.

Benefits

• Superior Health Plan Options.
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more.
• Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions.
• Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth.
• Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus.
• EAP and travel assistance included.
• Student loan refinancing discounts.
• Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees.
• Estimated annual base compensation of $275,000 – $900,000, depending on site, specialty, clinical volume, schedule, and experience.
• Compensation for part-time and per diem roles is prorated based on clinical hours worked.
• Total compensation including partnership income varies by site and may significantly exceed the range shown.