Director of Strategic Planning
PURPOSE OF THIS POSITION
The Director of Strategic Planning leads the development, refinement, and monitoring of the health system’s enterprise strategy. This role facilitates cross-functional planning, develops recommendations, maintains strategic roadmaps and scorecards, and supports the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Executive Steering Council (ESC), and Board decision-making through influence and formal governance processes.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Duty 1: Leads and facilitates the development of the enterprise strategic plan including high-priority strategic initiatives, long-range roadmap, environmental scanning, priority recommendations, and transformation efforts.
Duty 2: Partners with the Project Management Office (PMO) to align approved strategic priorities with delivery governance. Recommends priorities and facilitates handoff to accountable operating and technology leaders.
Duty 3: Leads market, competitor, referral, consumer, regulatory, partnership, affiliation, joint venture, and service line growth assessments through formal collaboration with Finance, Marketing and Communications, and clinical and operational partners. Leverages competitive assessments to form strategies that account for emerging trends, risks, opportunities, regulatory changes, consumer preferences, referral patterns, and evolving care delivery models.
Duty 4: Evaluates with clinical, provider, and operational leaders, new programs, emerging care models, service line expansions, partnerships, affiliations, joint ventures, and capital investments to inform executive decision-making. Develops recommendations that strengthen the organization's market position, expand access, realize return-on-investment, and drive sustainable growth across service lines, geographic markets, and care settings.
Duty 5: Leads the development, maintenance, and execution of the organization's Master Facility Space Plan, ensuring that facility planning supports organizational growth, patient access, operational efficiency, and evolving community needs. Facilitates business-case review and delivers approved initiatives to PMO, Facilities, Construction, and operational owners.
Duty 6: Defines expected strategic outcomes and scorecard measures; monitors benefits reported by Finance, PMO, and operational owners. Receives standardized status, risk, dependency, and benefit information through a documented service-level and governance agreement.
Duty 7: Prepares and presents strategic recommendations, roadmaps, scorecards, risks, and decision materials to the CEO, ESC, Board, and Board Committees in collaboration with accountable executives.
- Duty 8: Identifies, evaluates, and advances the latest innovations that support the organization's long-term strategic direction, including emerging care models, digital health solutions, and community collaborations.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree required
7-10+ years of progressive experience in healthcare strategy, management consulting, corporate development, business planning, or health system operations.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise strategic planning processes from the idea phase to execution.
Experience presenting recommendations to executive leadership and governing boards/committees.
A valid driver's license is required (if you do not have a valid Ohio driver’s license you must obtain one within 30 days of your residency in the state). You must also meet BVHS's company fleet policy and insurance company requirements, and any other requirements that may be required to operate a vehicle.
Positive service-oriented interpersonal and communication skills required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Master's degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, or related field)
Prior leadership experience within an integrated health system, academic medical center, or national healthcare consulting firm.
Lean, Six Sigma, or project management certification.
Experience setting organizational strategy, based on insights from healthcare market intelligence tools (e.g., Sg2, Trilliant, Strata, Kaufman Hall, Definitive Healthcare).
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This position requires a full range of body motion with intermittent walking, lifting, bending, squatting, kneeling, twisting and standing. The associate will be required to walk for up to one hour a day, sit continuously for six hours a day and stand for one hour a day. The individual must be able to lift twenty to fifty pounds and reach work above the shoulders. The individual must have good eye-hand coordination and fine finger dexterity for simple grasping tasks. The individual must have excellent verbal communication skills to perform daily tasks. The associate must have corrected vision and hearing in the normal range. The individual must be able to operate a motor vehicle for business travel and community involvement.