Vice President, Business Planning

Alameda Health System offers outstanding benefits that include:

• 100% employer health plan for employees and their eligible dependents
• Unique benefit offerings that are partially or 100% employer paid
• Rich and varied retirement plans and the ability to participate in multiple plans.
• Generous paid time off plans

Role Overview:

Alameda Health System is hiring! The Vice President of Business Planning Serves as an internal resource to Alameda Health System’s executive and leadership team and related strategic business units. This position is responsible for developing business plans, analysis of current and new services, revenue enhancement and cost reduction projects; provides technical advice, project management and written deliverables to facilitate achievement of the Health system’s budgetary and strategic objectives; this advanced professional is also the working lead level of this series, with incumbents directing the work of analytical, or strategy staff in addition to independently performing a variety of sophisticated research, market and financial analysis activities designed to maximize resource utilization, operational effectiveness of AHS and achieve strategic growth objectives.

DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: NOTE: The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification, however, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual in the classification.

• Analyzes and makes decisions on lease vs. buy options or capital purchase justification; calculates net present value, return on investment, documents and utilizes believable assumptions, understands and interprets vendor contracts correctly, summarizes and presents credible recommendation.
• Analyzes and leads teams to determine new service lines and programs; develops work plans that include all relevant tasks and timeframes, performs comprehensive research, tests projections and assumptions for reasonableness, produces deliverable that meets the expectation of requestor, provides credible data, utilizes appropriate financial and statistical formulas, models and trends, and makes operational decisions regarding data, incorporates an understanding of specific payor reimbursement issues and trends.
• Analyzes the contribution of existing service lines and programs and recommends changes/additions; matches the format of the deliverable with the expectations of the requestor, utilizes appropriate, believable and credible assumptions, confirms the accuracy of data used in the analysis, incorporates feedback, utilizes specific contract reimbursement information, explains data irregularities.
• Helps determine strategic service lines and assesses business development initiatives and programmatic opportunities by working collaboratively with key staff, internal and external stakeholders.
• Conducts internal and external needs assessments and provides recommendations, required research and develops supporting documentation for new service lines and related business opportunities including establishment of clear business objectives, financial opportunity, and risk analysis.
• Leads market assessment and other annual strategic planning activities.
• Performs analysis, makes recommendations, reports and presentations on organization-wide strategy, planning initiatives and issues that assist the organization in meeting its mission and goals, as assigned by senior management. 
• Performs other duties as assigned. 
• Responsible for identifying opportunities to improve services and make recommendations based on extensive data gathering and research for the business planning, market assessment, and program planning goals of the strategic business units. 
• The individual develops and implements business plans, working collaboratively with line administrators, department directors, physicians and other key staff.
• Can make organizational recommendations and decisions regarding direction of services.

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Education: Master’s degree in healthcare administration, or an MBA.

Preferred Experience: Experience working in Strategy, Business Planning for a Safety Net, and/or in the California market.

Required Experience: Ten years of experience working with health care information; Experience with clinical, and financial/billing healthcare data (ICD-9, CPT, DRG) within a hospital, healthcare payor, or health care services organization; healthcare strategy, project management experience in healthcare business, operations management, consulting or decision support; developing business plans, grant writing; experience analyzing data within relational database systems and tools – Excel Pivot table etc.