Strategic Growth Manager

Job Summary

As a leader of high visibility and high impact work within the Strategic Growth team, the Manager plays an important role in advancement of Wellstar's organizational growth and diversification strategy. This position assists the organization as a strategic resource for the development and implementation of strategic plans and processes that support Wellstar's mission, vision, and strategy. The manager is responsible for data collection, data analysis, and leveraging key tools and processes used by the strategic planning team to develop key business insights that allow for more informed and data driven decisions.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions

Strategic analysis:

• Performs proactive industry and organization specific market research and analyses of competitor activity.
• Completes on-going assessments of health care business and environmental trends that may provide new growth opportunities to the System at regional and/or local levels.
• Identifies appropriate data and its sources to gather and assist in data collection to support project initiatives and/or work with other departments.
• Analyzes available market data and any relevant internal data (inpatient and outpatient) to assist in generating key business insights.
• Organizes, coordinates, and assures the quality of the competitive data, market data, survey data, and related analysis gathered externally or provided by finance, or other departments.
• Creates data visualization, i.e., graphs from available data to allow for data dissemination and review.
• Synthesizes and communicates complex information into easy to read and follow spreadsheets, presentations, and other documents that can be used with a broader audience to influence decision making, to generate business cases, and to build consensus.
• Compiles and analyzes data from various sources to provide detailed insights on the key business question at hand.
• Supports the development of System, Market and Service Line strategic plans during the annual planning process.
• Collaborates with Service Lines and Markets to understand their local market, business, customers and their needs.
• Supports ad hoc strategic planning projects - from current state assessment to recommendation/business case development. Assists in data analysis, stakeholder interviews, gap analysis, to recommendation development.
• Helps prepare presentations (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.) to address key business questions via effective storytelling.
• Helps with creation of business plan(s) for any emerging strategic imperatives and engages leaders and subject matter experts to understand current state. Utilizes research to determine future state operations. Assesses and compares market opportunity, competitiveness and readiness through data-driven processes and prioritize markets if initiative is system-wide.
• Manages and reviews data, ensuring relevant information is saved and organized effectively using Teams folders and structures; effectively manages version control. Provides leadership in developing folder structures to ensure all relevant information is organized and easy to locate.
• Prepares meeting agendas, meeting minutes and provides other project management support to keep projects on track and to drive forward results, as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education

Bachelors Business Administration/Management or Bachelors Health Administration or Bachelors Other

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s)

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

Required Minimum Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience in an analytical role. Experience working with excel and data analysis on excel. Required and Strong ability to interpret data, develop actionable insights supported by facts, analysis, and scenario planning. Required and Self-motivated with the ability to independently learn new strategies and tools. and Proven ability to build and maintain relationships, influence stakeholders across the organization and achieve goals. and Entrepreneurial mindset with proactive, action-oriented approach, thoughtful yet resourceful in getting started without excessive guidance and a comparable combination of education and experience.

Required Minimum Skills

1. Superior strategic thinking, problem solving, analytical and business acumen skills. Demonstrated ability to draft business and financial plans as well as senior leadership and governance presentations. Ability to think strategically, analytically and tactically about divestitures, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, other partnerships, and divestitures, including impact on business, long-term ramifications, etc. 2. Ability to effectively organize and manage multiple projects and prioritize appropriately to produce results. Demonstrated success as a project manager. 3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of business executives and other key stakeholders. Strong presentation & negotiating skills. Experience presenting to board and C-suite executives. 4. Demonstrated success in developing market intelligence, market share and environmental trends reports. Experience developing strategic plans preferred. 5. Expert in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word). 6. Must be a motivated, goal-oriented self-starter that takes initiative to ask questions and escalate items where additional support or education is needed to achieve the work. 7. Demonstrated ability to gain and maintain credibility and trust with key stakeholders. 8. Exceptional interpersonal and relationship management skills in order to influence results and manage relationships and influences within and outside the organization. Ability to read the subtle nuances of situations and plan/react accordingly. 9. Demonstrated experience and success in working collaboratively with senior management to achieve goals. 10. Comfortable with a fast paced, demanding, and team-oriented environment with the ability assist and support others as needed to balance various simultaneous team initiatives. 11. Must be able to operate effectively in a collaborative, shared leadership environment. 12. Must possess a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Wellstar.

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