Title: Associate Vice President, Strategic Planning

Advocate Health Enterprise

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:

As Strategic Planning Leader, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping Advocate Health’s future. You’ll partner with senior leaders to design and drive enterprise-wide strategies that fuel growth, innovation, and impact. By combining market intelligence, business planning expertise, and agile execution, you’ll lead high-stakes initiatives that influence system-wide decisions and outcomes. Your work will directly support the development of strategic capabilities and ensure alignment across clinical, operational, and shared service teams—making a measurable difference in how Advocate Health delivers on its mission.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Strategic Planning Capability Ownership

• Lead development and implementation of capabilities within the planning phase of the strategic lifecycle framework.
• Design and deploy structures, tools, and processes among the strategy team and other enterprise and divisional leaders to ensure an orchestrated approach to planning that aligns with the enterprise strategy and enables sound decision-making.
• Develops industry leading methodologies for developing strategies, strategic plans, business plans, analyses, and other project approaches to drive quality, consistent outcomes as well as build teammate competencies.
• Own planning stage for strategic projects, including planning inputs, best practice deliverables, and decision-gates.

Enterprise Functional Planning & Strategic Alignment

• Engage and collaborate with executive leaders across shared services and operational functional areas to build cohesive plans and strategies leveraging industry knowledge, strategic planning expertise and enterprise strategic rationale.
• Partner with Lead, Strategic Insights & Economics to assess competitor activity, industry trends and internal performance to inform plan development and advise strategic initiative leaders.
• Lead development of integrated roadmaps that synchronize functional plans with the enterprise strategy.
• Guide analysis and facilitate cross-functional planning to sequence deployment of shared services resources across the strategic portfolio of projects.
• Facilitate and bring thought leadership to cross-functional engagement and coordination, through events, standing forums and other multi-modal engagement methods.

Strategic Planning & Business Planning Project Direction

• In partnership with strategy and operational executives, drive significant and complex enterprise strategic planning and strategic business planning projects.
• Develop, manage, prioritize, and execute multiple, concurrent projects involving multiple constituencies, including scoping, resources and managing projects to senior leader expectations.
• Lead and / or contribute to the appropriate communication of strategic plans, analyses, and other project related work.

Strategy Function Development

• Lead development of planning discipline best practice knowledge and skills across strategy function team.
• Responsible for team development, coaching, professional guidance, and high performance of the team within direct area of responsibility and across the strategy department as part of the strategy leadership team.
• Leads and drives Strategy departmental initiatives as a member of the leadership team.
• Decisions are guided by the enterprise strategy and actions directly impact the enterprise strategy.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree in business, healthcare or related field from an accredited college or university is required.

Experience Required:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in health systems management, business planning and / or strategic planning.
• Experience in cross-functional leadership and program management in complex organizations.
• Familiarity with academic medical health system operations, strategic planning processes, and leadership facilitation.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Demonstrated executive presence among other leaders and executives.
• Demonstrated expertise in business planning and strategic planning.
• Demonstrated ability to be comfortable in ambiguity.
• Sophisticated and nuanced communication skills, including written, power point and verbal communications.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to navigate complex systems.
• Knowledge of issues facing integrated health delivery systems.
• Knowledge of the health industry and major trends.
• Skilled user of Microsoft Office suite of tools.

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.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree in business, healthcare or related field from an accredited college or university is required.

Experience Required:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in health systems management, business planning and / or strategic planning.
• Experience in cross-functional leadership and program management in complex organizations.
• Familiarity with academic medical health system operations, strategic planning processes, and leadership facilitation.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Demonstrated executive presence among other leaders and executives.
• Demonstrated expertise in business planning and strategic planning.
• Demonstrated ability to be comfortable in ambiguity.
• Sophisticated and nuanced communication skills, including written, power point and verbal communications.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to navigate complex systems.
• Knowledge of issues facing integrated health delivery systems.
• Knowledge of the health industry and major trends.
• Skilled user of Microsoft Office suite of tools.

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.

About Advocate Health

Anything is possible when we apply our imaginations and knowledge toward our purpose of helping people live well. At Advocate Aurora Health, we’re embracing bold, innovative ways to connect our consumers, team members and communities to their health. Advocate Aurora Health is committed to diversity and inclusion every single day and in everything we do. Diversity lives in the differences, great and small, that matter to us and make each of us unique – from our age and the color of our skin, to our abilities and the things we believe in. We know that empowering our differences inspires creativity that leads to innovative solutions – for our team members, consumers and communities. And because health care is built upon relationships, it’s important for the people we serve to be able to trust us to meet their unique needs. By cultivating an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion, we create a welcoming environment where our patients can heal, our team members can thrive and our business can grow. As a team member, working in a diverse setting allows you the chance to grow in ways that will broaden your perspective to deliver the best possible patient care.Each of us is vital to our st...ory: As one of the top 12 not-for-profit health systems in the country, we’re committed to leading the way within our rapidly changing industry. Watch now to see where we’re going:Living our valuesExcellence, compassion and respect are at the heart of our purpose – and these values commit us to evolving and growing as our world changes. By cultivating an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion, we create a welcoming environment where our consumers heal, our team members thrive and our business grows. See how we’re putting our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy into action.Lifting up communitiesBeing the trusted health care partner for 3 million people has inspired a transformation. One in which the consumer’s experience guides our vision and empowers us to offer new possibilities in our richly diverse communities.3MUnique patients$2.5B+Community benefit in 2020Reshaping accessWhat is access? It’s about meeting people where they are in every stage of their health and wellness journey – and then connecting it all together. 1M+LiveWell users63Walgreens clinics500+Outpatient locations27HospitalsInspiring professionalsWhat we’re doing is for those who believe we can always do better and imagine more. With strong connections to the places where we live and work, our inclusive workforce will touch more lives and contribute to stronger and more vibrant communities.10,000Doctors22,000Nurses75,000Team members10,000+VolunteersTransforming careOur world-class doctors, nurses and team members are redefining the standard for care through innovative solutions and outstanding outcomes. Advocate Aurora is recognized for clinical excellence in:Cardiovascular careNeurosciencesGynecologyOncologyPediatricsPrimary careNeurologyGeriatricsTrauma care

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