Vice President Strategic Growth

Title: Strategic Growth Vice President

Advocate Health Enterprise Wide

WHO WE ARE
: Advocate Health is the nation's third largest, nonprofit healthcare enterprise. In December of 2022, four mission driven health systems came together to do more, be better, and go faster to provide equitable care for all in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, and Wisconsin:

• Atrium Health
• Advocate Health Care
• Aurora Health Care
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Together, we operate
68
hospitals and over
1K
ambulatory centers. We support the careers of
155K
team members,
42K
nurses,
21K
physicians who care for
6M
patients annually. Our combined
$6B
in community benefits enables us to foster healthier communities.

Come explore the enterprise whose accolades include: "
Top Workplaces",
"
Top 100 Hospitals
",
"Best Hospitals for Maternity Care", "Top Diversity Organization",
"
Best Places to work for Women and Diverse Managers
", and "
System for Change Award"
.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE:

In this pivotal leadership role, you'll shape the future of Advocate Health by driving enterprise-wide growth and transformation. As a strategic architect and activation expert, you'll lead high-impact initiatives across innovation, strategic partnerships, AI, analytics, and academic advancement. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams—from clinical to digital—to turn bold ideas into measurable results. This is your opportunity to influence complex, high-stakes decisions and deliver meaningful change that advances our mission and improves lives across the communities we serve.

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Leads and manages the execution of complex, enterprise-wide initiatives aligned with Advocate Health's strategic growth, business performance and transformation agenda.
• Translates strategic objectives into clearly defined workstreams with accountable owners, deliverables, timelines, and performance metrics.
• Applies structured, insight-driven approaches to define business problems, design solutions, and drive measurable outcomes.
• Synthesizes qualitative and quantitative insights to support strategic recommendations, business cases, and executive decision-making.
• Prepares and presents high-quality deliverables, including briefings, presentations, and reports for senior leadership.
• Serves as a strategic advisor and connector across the enterprise, cultivating effective working relationships with clinical, shared service, academic, digital, data/analytics, and operational stakeholders.
• Leads and facilitates cross-functional teams to ensure aligned execution of strategic initiatives.
• Supports governance processes and communication structures that promote visibility, accountability, and informed decision-making across the enterprise.
• Academics & Research: Collaborates with academic senior leaders to advance enterprise academic plans in the areas of education and workforce innovation, research (basic science, clinical and clinical trial) academic relationships and translation at scale, ensuring connections to other strategic initiatives, enterprise assets and opportunities and driving academic impact.
• Innovation & Strategic Partnerships: Partners with enterprise service teams to accelerate the development and integration of new solutions and partnerships, and supports execution of external partnerships aligned with enterprise goals.
• Data, Analytics & AI: Works with enterprise data and technology leaders to shape and scale high-impact data products, AI tools, and analytic platforms that support strategic decision-making and drive innovation.
• Growth & Business Optimization Portfolio Management: Leads the design, governance, and continuous refinement of an enterprise portfolio of initiatives, ensuring strategic alignment, resource optimization, and enterprise impact.
• Contributes to the development and deployment of tools, processes, and templates that support consistent and effective execution of enterprise strategy.
• Builds internal capacity for strategic execution through knowledge sharing, process improvement, and collaboration.
• Mentors team members and supports the overall maturity and growth of the strategy function.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED
:

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• None

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in business, health administration, public health, or related field preferred.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires 10 years of leadership experience in academic health systems, innovation, partnerships, or strategic planning.
• Experience in cross-functional leadership and initiative management in complex organizations.
• Familiarity with academic medical center operations, innovation pipelines, and data/technology solutions.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Understanding of enterprise growth strategy, portfolio management, and transformation frameworks.
• Sound financial and business acumen with the ability to develop and analyze business cases, and ROI analyses.
• Working knowledge of data and analytics, governance, and advanced analytics/AI capabilities.
• Collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills; able to influence within a matrixed organization.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into executable roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and project management skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including executive-level presentation.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• None

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Taking care of our team members and leaders is a top priority
. We strive to develop and maintain an inclusive culture where everyone feels welcome, valued, and thrives. Supporting careers and professional development is one facet of caring for our leaders through structured leadership onboarding, enhanced tuition reimbursement, progressive developmental programs, succession planning and mentoring performance excellence. Competitive compensation, eligible annual incentive plans and comprehensive health care packages are top of mind to care for your financial health and well-being. If needed, our comprehensive relocation package helps get you here.