Sr. Extraordinary Service Specialist

Primary City/State:

Phoenix, Arizona

Department Name:

Svc Excellence-Corp

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Marketing and Communications

Health care is constantly changing, and at Banner Health, we are at the front of that change. We are leading health care to make the experience the best it can be. We want to change the lives of those in our care – and the people who choose to take on this challenge. If changing health care for the better sounds like something you want to be part of, we want to hear from you

The Sr. Extraordinary Service Specialist  plays a key part in advancing Banner Health's commitment to exceptional service excellence. The position proactively identifies areas for improvement and proposes actionable solutions to achieve and sustain elevated Patient Experience outcomes. By developing innovative strategies, tools, and processes, this role drives the delivery of outstanding care and service to patients, families, members, and customers alike.

Additionally, this position champions and models a world-class, service-driven culture across all Banner entities — fostering trust, deepening loyalty, and ensuring that every individual we serve receives the highest standard of care and attention.

Duties:

Conducting on-site visits and observing best practices to providing real-time coaching and guidance to leaders across care settings. On any given day, this role may involve diving deep into performance data and trends, collaborating on targeted action plans, facilitating meaningful leader development sessions, or partnering closely with operational leaders to uncover and address system-wide challenges.

At its core, this position serves as a trusted coach and consultant in the field — empowering leaders to implement evidence-based practices, strengthen reliability, and drive lasting, sustainable performance improvement across a diverse range of care environments.

Hybrid Role: This position requires travel Monday through Friday. Specific scheduling details and travel expectations will be discussed further during the interview process.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY
This position is responsible for assisting in the success of Banner Health’s extraordinary services program improvements. This position identifies opportunities for improvement and recommends solutions to achieve and sustain improved Patient Experience goals. This position develops strategies and develops tools and processes that lead to delivering extraordinary service to patients, families, members and customers. This position is responsible for supporting, driving and modeling a top-tier service-oriented culture across all Banner entities with the overall goal of improving the trust and loyalty of those we serve.

CORE FUNCTIONS
1. Partners with leadership to establish a sustainable extraordinary service strategy for Banner Health’s customers. This includes developing and driving extraordinary strategies and tactics that achieve system wide outcomes for Banner Health. Regularly reports to leadership on program status and initiative progress.

2. Aligns and prioritizes all patient/member extraordinary service initiatives across the system and aligns with team member extraordinary service initiatives to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Ensures consistency across the continuum with our organizational approach to improving the internal and external customer experience by delivering extraordinary service.

3. Collaborates with Banner Health partners to evaluate patient/member survey data related to leader and team member opportunities to improve the patient experience

4. Analyzes patient experience data, trend outcomes and identifies opportunities for improvement. Articulates and demonstrates an expectation for continuous quality improvement utilizing processes.

5. Promotes patient/member experience philosophies and behaviors across entities. Works closely with extraordinary services team to ensure tight alignment with system level strategy, plans and tools to enhance the overall patient, member and people experience. Provide communication to partners around extraordinary service strategy, plans, tools, and ongoing activities that enhance and sustain the service-focused culture.

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