Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Transformation Greater Nashville, TN Area

Assistant Vice President Enterprise Transformation

Onsite

Your experience matters

The Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Enterprise Transformation is an advanced, highly specialized position - responsible for partnering with the Organization leaders to shape, prioritize, and execute the organization’s most consequential strategic, operational, and business model initiatives.

The AVP converts enterprise priorities into integrated transformation roadmaps, rigorous business cases – that reflect executive decisions, and measurable financial, operational, clinical, and organizational outcomes. This leader brings sophisticated consulting disciplines, exceptional analytical and financial acumen, and the executive presence required to influence decisions and mobilize action across a complex, matrixed healthcare organization.

The AVP will provide leadership across a portfolio of high-priority initiatives, ensuring each effort is strategically aligned, analytically sound, and governed with discipline, and positioned to deliver sustained value. The role will guide transformation opportunities to include identification and hypothesis development through solution design, implementation, and benefit realization. This role will also assist with transition to business ownership. The AVP will also identify and incubate new opportunities that strengthen the operating model, improve performance, enhance capabilities, and create long-term enterprise value.

This position will serve as a trusted advisor to executives, lead multidisciplinary teams, develop other transformation professionals, and execute repeatable methods that increase the organization’s capacity to manage change. Success requires the ability to operate independently in ambiguity, challenge assumptions constructively, synthesize complex information, and communicate clear recommendations that enable timely executive action.

How you’ll contribute

• Execute leadership enterprise priorities, portfolio choices, sequencing, investment requirements, risks, interdependencies, and opportunities to accelerate value creation.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across business, operations, finance, clinical, technology, and functional areas; align stakeholders around enterprise outcomes and translate strategy into executable commitments.
• Lead complex transformation initiatives from diagnostic assessment through implementation and value realization, including hypothesis development, quantitative analysis, solution design, business case creation, operating model design, implementation planning, and transition to accountable business owners.
• Own the integrity of benefit cases and value tracking by validating assumptions, establishing baselines and leading indicators, partnering with Finance on benefit realization, and initiating corrective action when performance is at risk.
• Mobilize and lead cross-functional teams through significant operating model, process, technology, capability, and behavioral change; establish clear accountability and remove barriers that span functions, markets, and business units.
• Identify and shape new enterprise opportunities by framing ambiguous problems, testing strategic hypotheses, conducting market and internal analyses, sizing value, assessing feasibility, and presenting investment recommendations to executive decision-makers.
• Influence senior stakeholders through fact-based recommendations, compelling executive communications, and constructive challenge; facilitate decisions where priorities, incentives, or perspectives differ.
• Develop transformation talent and organizational capability by coaching team members, setting high standards for analytical and delivery quality, codifying methods and tools, and strengthening enterprise-wide change leadership practices.
• The position will work with internal co-workers and external customers, clients, patients, contractors, and vendors.
• Access to and/or works with sensitive and/or confidential information.
• Exhibit a comprehensive understanding of healthcare regulatory and compliance (e.g., HIPAA) standards.

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we’re looking for

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Management consulting expertise – At least two to four years of experience in a top-tier management consulting firm or a comparably rigorous internal strategy or transformation practice, with demonstrated mastery of structured problem solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive story lining, business case development, and implementation planning.
• Enterprise transformation leadership – Demonstrated ability to shape and lead enterprise-wide transformation portfolios, convert strategic priorities into executable programs, establish governance and accountability, and deliver sustained operational, financial, and organizational value.
• Portfolio and program leadership – Advanced capability to direct multiple, interdependent initiatives; establish scope, resources, decision rights, milestones, and performance expectations; and hold executive sponsors and delivery teams accountable for outcomes.
• Strategic, analytical, and financial acumen – Exceptional ability to structure ambiguous problems, synthesize qualitative and quantitative inputs, build and challenge financial models, evaluate enterprise tradeoffs, and translate analysis into pragmatic, value-oriented recommendations.
• Executive communication and influence – Highly developed written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the presence and judgment to advise senior executives, communicate complex issues succinctly, navigate competing perspectives, and secure commitment to difficult decisions.
• Healthcare industry knowledge – familiarity with the healthcare industry, including provider/health system landscape, regulatory landscape, and key stakeholders. Experienced with various aspects of hospital and ambulatory provider operations.
• Transformative idea development - Identify unmet opportunities, pressure-test hypotheses, size potential value, develop executive-ready business cases, and incubate new ideas that can become future transformation initiatives.
• Problem Solving: Utilize strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify and break down complex business challenges, develop data-driven solutions, and implement process improvements. Apply strategic thinking and data-driven insights to drive decision-making and mitigate risks.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders, including executives, department leaders, operations leadership, to gain insights, build trust, and ensure alignment with strategic goals. Act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance and recommendations on strategic initiatives.
• Reporting & Analysis: Proficient in analyzing comprehensive reports, dashboards, and performance metrics to draw insights for senior leadership. Conduct analyses, identify trends, and summarize actionable insights to support strategic decision-making.

EDUCATION:

• Master’s degree in business administration (MBA), healthcare administration, public health, finance, strategy, operations, or another directly relevant discipline is required.
• A graduate degree from a highly rigorous program and additional credentials in transformation, change management, finance, analytics, or project leadership are preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• Eight or more years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise transformation, corporate strategy, operations, management consulting, enterprise program leadership, or a closely related field, including at least two to four years of management consulting experience.
• Demonstrated success advising senior executives, leading multiple high-impact cross-functional initiatives, developing executive-ready recommendations and business cases, and delivering measurable operational, financial, strategic, or organizational outcomes in a large, complex organization. Healthcare provider or health system experience is strongly preferred.

EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country. We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.