Primary Location:

JHHS - Jewish Hospital

Address:

200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202

Shift:

Salary Shift (United States of America)

Job Description Summary:

About UofL Health:
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.
With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description:

Position Summary and Purpose 

The Vice President, Strategy & Transformation is a senior leadership role within the strategy organization responsible for leading a team of highly visible professionals to advance enterprise-wide transformation. Acting as head of the transformation management office, this leader is accountable for translating strategic priorities into a coordinated portfolio of initiatives and ensuring disciplined execution across the organization. 

The Vice President partners closely with executive leadership, hospital administration, physician leaders, and operational teams to design, prioritize, and implement transformation programs across hospitals, service lines, and corporate functions. This includes defining initiative roadmaps, aligning resources, and implementing performance management systems to track progress and ensure delivery of targeted outcomes. 

This role requires strong systems thinking, analytical rigor, and change leadership to lead complex, enterprise-level initiatives that drive performance improvement, enable strategic priorities, and deliver measurable results within a large academic health system. The Director will oversee a structured transformation management approach, including initiative intake and prioritization, milestone tracking, risk mitigation, and executive reporting, ensuring alignment and accountability across all levels of the organization. 

In addition, the Vice President will lead efforts to identify and evaluate growth and financial improvement opportunities, develop and execute strategic plans, assess the competitive landscape, and support strategic transactions through financial and operational due diligence.  Serving as a trusted thought partner to system executives, physicians, and operational leaders, this individual will apply hypothesis-driven problem solving while ensuring effective execution, organizational alignment, and sustained impact of transformational initiatives across the enterprise. 

Essential Functions: 

I.  Transformation Management Office (TMO) Leadership 

Serve as the enterprise Transformation Management Officer, establishing and leading a centralized approach to managing strategic initiatives and transformation efforts 

Design and implement transformation governance structures, including executive steering committees, initiative review cadences, and decision-making frameworks 

Develop and manage a prioritized portfolio of transformation initiatives aligned with system strategy and performance goals 

Oversee initiative intake, prioritization, and resource alignment processes to ensure focus on highest-impact opportunities 

Establish standardized program and project management methodologies, tools, and templates to support consistent execution across the organization 

Accountable for enforcing enterprise prioritization decisions approved by executive leadership 

II. Transformation Execution & Performance Management 

Translate strategic priorities into actionable transformation roadmaps with defined milestones, deliverables, and success metrics 

Monitor progress of enterprise initiatives through robust tracking systems, dashboards, and performance reporting 

Identify risks, interdependencies, and barriers to execution, and proactively drive mitigation strategies 

Ensure accountability for results by partnering with initiative owners and operational leaders to achieve defined outcomes 

Lead the development and tracking of KPIs and value realization metrics to measure impact and sustain improvements 

Act as the system‑level steward of driving disciplined execution, issue resolution, and outcome delivery for the organization’s most critical, cross‑enterprise initiatives 
 

III.  Enterprise Strategy & Strategic Planning 

Lead the execution of the system-wide strategic planning process, ensuring alignment across system, hospital, service line, and functional strategies 

Direct the creation of long-term strategic plans, including growth str