Vice President, Service Line & Provider Growth Planning
Department:
10710 Enterprise Corporate - Enterprise Growth Administration
Status:
Full time
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
Hours Per Week:
40
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Typically Day Time Schedule Monday-Friday with flexibility for business needs
Pay Range:
$151.65 - $242.65
The Vice President, Service Line and Provider Growth Planning is a senior enterprise leader responsible for shaping and activating Advocate Healthâs service line, clinical workforce, and provider network growth strategies across the enterprise and divisions. Reporting to the SVP, Strategic Growth, Intelligence & Architecture, this role is a core member of the Enterprise Strategy leadership team and serves as a key strategic partner to National Service Line leadership, Clinical Operations, and Division Strategy & Growth leaders.
This executive owns the integration of service line planning, clinical workforce planning, and provider network development into a cohesive, executionâready growth system. The role ensures that enterprise strategy is translated into actionable plans that optimize access, capacity, quality, and sustainable growth across markets, sites of care, and clinical disciplines. Success requires a leader who is both visionary and highly executionâorientedâable to set a compelling strategic direction while building the structures, operating mechanisms, and partnerships required to deliver measurable results.
Working in lockstep with the VPs of Division Strategy & Growth and other enterprise leaders, this role brings together disparate planning and growth disciplines, maximizes synergies across them, and ensures consistent enterprise standards with locally tailored activation.
Location
Remote with business travel as required.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Service Line Strategy & Planning
Lead enterpriseâwide service line planning in close partnership with Service Line and Clinical Operations leadershipâdefining strategic priorities, growth pathways, and access and capacity implications across the system.
Establish a consistent, dataâinformed service line planning framework that integrates enterprise strategy, market opportunity, clinical capabilities, workforce realities, and divisionâlevel execution.
Partner with Division Strategy & Growth leaders to translate enterprise service line strategies into divisionâspecific plans, initiatives, and roadmaps that are integral to the division strategies, plans and execution.
Ensure service line strategies are aligned with enterprise and division portfolio priorities, capital planning, and performance objectives.
Clinical Workforce Planning
Lead enterprise and divisionâlevel clinical workforce planning, ensuring alignment between service line growth strategies, access goals, care models, and provider supply.
Identify current and future provider gaps by specialty, geography, and site of care; translate insights into actionable workforce strategies.
Partner closely with a broad set of enterprise and division leadership to curate the provider pipeline as well develop, negotiate and implement partnership models.
Establish repeatable planning processes, standards, and analytics that enable proactive workforce decisionâmaking rather than reactive gapâfilling.
Provider Network Development & Alignment
Lead enterprise and division level provider network growth strategy, including provider acquisition, employment, partnerships, affiliations, and other alignment models.
Define and prioritize provider growth opportunities in coordination with service line and workforce plans, ensuring the right alignment model is deployed for each strategic need.
Collaborate with enterprise and division leaders on practice acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic affiliations.
Ensure consistent enterprise standards and disciplined execution across provider network development efforts, while allowing for divisionâspecific tailoring.
Strategy Activation & CrossâFunctional Integration
Translate strategy into execution by developing clear, sequenced plans with defined ownership, milestones, interdependencies, and success measures.
Serve as the enterprise integrator across service line strategy, workforce planning, and provider growthâensuring these disciplines operate as a unified system rather than siloed efforts.
Partner closely with Strategic Analytics to ensure planning is grounded in consistent analytics, market intelligence, and performance insights.
Interlock with Division Strategy & Growth, Strategic Analytics, Diversified Growth, Enterprise Business Development, Managed Health, and other enterprise functions to ensure alignment and value capture.
Leadership, Governance & Influence
Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior enterprise, service line, and clinical leadersâbringing a clear point of view, strong analytic grounding, and pragmatic execution focus.
Establish governance, operating rhythms, and decisionâmaking forums that enable transparency, accountability, and timely escalation of tradeoffs.
Drive a culture of collaboration, disciplined planning, and outcomesâoriented execution across enterprise and division stakeholders.
Build, lead, and develop a highâperforming team as applicable, setting clear expectations, standards, and development pathways.
Education
Required: Bachelorâs degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Strategy, Economics, Public Health, or a related field.
Preferred: Masterâs degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, or equivalent).
Experience
10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare strategy, growth planning, service line strategy, provider growth, or related enterprise roles within a complex health system or academic medical center.
Demonstrated experience leading enterpriseâlevel service line planning, clinical workforce planning, provider network development, or closely related disciplines.
Proven ability to translate strategy into executionâbuilding actionable plans, operating mechanisms, and governance structures that deliver measurable outcomes.
Experience working effectively with senior clinical, operational, and administrative leaders in a highly matrixed environment.
Strong track record of leading crossâfunctional initiatives that integrate analytics, strategy, and operational execution.
Experience with provider alignment models (employment, partnerships, affiliations, acquisitions) and their strategic, operational, and financial implications is highly desirable.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Deep understanding of healthcare service line economics, provider workforce dynamics, and growth strategy.
Strategic thinker with the ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear priorities and decisions.
Highly executionâoriented leader who brings structure, discipline, and followâthrough.
Exceptional collaboration, influence, and communication skills; able to lead without direct authority.
Comfort operating at both the enterprise and division levels, balancing enterprise consistency with market-specific nuance and local execution realities.
Strong analytic orientation with the ability to leverage data, market intelligence, and performance insights to inform strategy and drive accountability.
Proven ability to build, lead, and inspire high-performing teams in complex, matrixed environments.
Adept at navigating ambiguity and managing multiple, competing priorities with a pragmatic, outcomes-focused approach.
Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more â so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
Compensation
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program
Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nationâs largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.
10710 Enterprise Corporate - Enterprise Growth Administration
Status:
Full time
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
Hours Per Week:
40
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Typically Day Time Schedule Monday-Friday with flexibility for business needs
Pay Range:
$151.65 - $242.65
The Vice President, Service Line and Provider Growth Planning is a senior enterprise leader responsible for shaping and activating Advocate Healthâs service line, clinical workforce, and provider network growth strategies across the enterprise and divisions. Reporting to the SVP, Strategic Growth, Intelligence & Architecture, this role is a core member of the Enterprise Strategy leadership team and serves as a key strategic partner to National Service Line leadership, Clinical Operations, and Division Strategy & Growth leaders.
This executive owns the integration of service line planning, clinical workforce planning, and provider network development into a cohesive, executionâready growth system. The role ensures that enterprise strategy is translated into actionable plans that optimize access, capacity, quality, and sustainable growth across markets, sites of care, and clinical disciplines. Success requires a leader who is both visionary and highly executionâorientedâable to set a compelling strategic direction while building the structures, operating mechanisms, and partnerships required to deliver measurable results.
Working in lockstep with the VPs of Division Strategy & Growth and other enterprise leaders, this role brings together disparate planning and growth disciplines, maximizes synergies across them, and ensures consistent enterprise standards with locally tailored activation.
Location
Remote with business travel as required.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Service Line Strategy & Planning
Lead enterpriseâwide service line planning in close partnership with Service Line and Clinical Operations leadershipâdefining strategic priorities, growth pathways, and access and capacity implications across the system.
Establish a consistent, dataâinformed service line planning framework that integrates enterprise strategy, market opportunity, clinical capabilities, workforce realities, and divisionâlevel execution.
Partner with Division Strategy & Growth leaders to translate enterprise service line strategies into divisionâspecific plans, initiatives, and roadmaps that are integral to the division strategies, plans and execution.
Ensure service line strategies are aligned with enterprise and division portfolio priorities, capital planning, and performance objectives.
Clinical Workforce Planning
Lead enterprise and divisionâlevel clinical workforce planning, ensuring alignment between service line growth strategies, access goals, care models, and provider supply.
Identify current and future provider gaps by specialty, geography, and site of care; translate insights into actionable workforce strategies.
Partner closely with a broad set of enterprise and division leadership to curate the provider pipeline as well develop, negotiate and implement partnership models.
Establish repeatable planning processes, standards, and analytics that enable proactive workforce decisionâmaking rather than reactive gapâfilling.
Provider Network Development & Alignment
Lead enterprise and division level provider network growth strategy, including provider acquisition, employment, partnerships, affiliations, and other alignment models.
Define and prioritize provider growth opportunities in coordination with service line and workforce plans, ensuring the right alignment model is deployed for each strategic need.
Collaborate with enterprise and division leaders on practice acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic affiliations.
Ensure consistent enterprise standards and disciplined execution across provider network development efforts, while allowing for divisionâspecific tailoring.
Strategy Activation & CrossâFunctional Integration
Translate strategy into execution by developing clear, sequenced plans with defined ownership, milestones, interdependencies, and success measures.
Serve as the enterprise integrator across service line strategy, workforce planning, and provider growthâensuring these disciplines operate as a unified system rather than siloed efforts.
Partner closely with Strategic Analytics to ensure planning is grounded in consistent analytics, market intelligence, and performance insights.
Interlock with Division Strategy & Growth, Strategic Analytics, Diversified Growth, Enterprise Business Development, Managed Health, and other enterprise functions to ensure alignment and value capture.
Leadership, Governance & Influence
Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior enterprise, service line, and clinical leadersâbringing a clear point of view, strong analytic grounding, and pragmatic execution focus.
Establish governance, operating rhythms, and decisionâmaking forums that enable transparency, accountability, and timely escalation of tradeoffs.
Drive a culture of collaboration, disciplined planning, and outcomesâoriented execution across enterprise and division stakeholders.
Build, lead, and develop a highâperforming team as applicable, setting clear expectations, standards, and development pathways.
Education
Required: Bachelorâs degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Strategy, Economics, Public Health, or a related field.
Preferred: Masterâs degree (MBA, MHA, MPH, or equivalent).
Experience
10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare strategy, growth planning, service line strategy, provider growth, or related enterprise roles within a complex health system or academic medical center.
Demonstrated experience leading enterpriseâlevel service line planning, clinical workforce planning, provider network development, or closely related disciplines.
Proven ability to translate strategy into executionâbuilding actionable plans, operating mechanisms, and governance structures that deliver measurable outcomes.
Experience working effectively with senior clinical, operational, and administrative leaders in a highly matrixed environment.
Strong track record of leading crossâfunctional initiatives that integrate analytics, strategy, and operational execution.
Experience with provider alignment models (employment, partnerships, affiliations, acquisitions) and their strategic, operational, and financial implications is highly desirable.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Deep understanding of healthcare service line economics, provider workforce dynamics, and growth strategy.
Strategic thinker with the ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear priorities and decisions.
Highly executionâoriented leader who brings structure, discipline, and followâthrough.
Exceptional collaboration, influence, and communication skills; able to lead without direct authority.
Comfort operating at both the enterprise and division levels, balancing enterprise consistency with market-specific nuance and local execution realities.
Strong analytic orientation with the ability to leverage data, market intelligence, and performance insights to inform strategy and drive accountability.
Proven ability to build, lead, and inspire high-performing teams in complex, matrixed environments.
Adept at navigating ambiguity and managing multiple, competing priorities with a pragmatic, outcomes-focused approach.
Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more â so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
Compensation
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program
Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nationâs largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.