Director Strategy

HCA Healthcare; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Time off programs

Retirement resources

Education support

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

The Director, Strategy within HealthTrust Performance Solutions at HCA Healthcare serves as a strategic advisor to health systems and provider organizations, identifying opportunities and guiding initiatives to improve financial performance and enterprise growth.

Working with leadership and subject matter experts, the role develops engagement workplans, KPI frameworks, and executive-level deliverables, translating complex data into actionable insights and integrated advisory solutions across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years in healthcare consulting, strategy, or performance improvement.
• Experience advising health system leadership on initiatives.
• Ability to structure complex initiatives and integrate multidisciplinary expertise.
• Experience creating executive analyses, presentations, and financial models.
• Experience supporting enterprise performance across supply chain, operations, or service lines.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Support advisory engagements with hospitals, health systems, and provider organizations.
• Conduct analyses to identify financial, operational, and strategic opportunities.
• Develop engagement workplans, timelines, prioritization frameworks, and KPI structures.
• Create executive presentations and client-facing deliverables with recommendations.
• Collaborate with SMEs to develop integrated advisory solutions.
• Translate complex data into actionable leadership insights.
• Support development of financial models and business cases.
• Contribute to enterprise value articulation and responses for new opportunities.
• Engage with member organizations and internal stakeholders.
• Contribute to consulting tools, methodologies, and advisory frameworks.

Skills

Strategic advisory

Healthcare consulting

Executive presentations

Financial modeling

KPI frameworks

Engagement structuring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA or MHA preferred

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Financial modeling tools

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Director, Strategy serves as a strategic advisor within HealthTrust Performance Solutions – Business Advisory, supporting advisory engagements with health systems and provider organizations to identify opportunities, develop data-driven strategies, and guide initiatives that enhance financial performance, operational effectiveness, and enterprise growth.

Working with organizational leadership and subject matter experts, this role contributes to the structuring of advisory engagements by analyzing opportunities, developing strategic insights, and supporting the creation of executive-level work products that inform decision-making.

The Director helps ensure engagements reflect a cohesive enterprise perspective by integrating capabilities across HealthTrust’s GPO, supply chain, purchased services, service line, logistics, analytics, and operational performance platforms. The role contributes to the development of engagement workplans, KPI frameworks, and executive presentations that clearly communicate priorities, strategy, and measurable outcomes.

This position requires strong analytical capabilities, healthcare industry knowledge, and the ability to translate complex challenges into structured insights that support strategic advisory initiatives.

Major Responsibilities:

• Support advisory engagements with hospitals, health systems, and provider organizations across HealthTrust Performance Solutions initiatives.

• Conduct analyses to identify financial, operational, and strategic improvement opportunities.

• Support development of engagement workplans, timelines, prioritization frameworks, and KPI structures.

• Develop executive presentations, strategic analyses, and client-facing deliverables that communicate insights and recommendations.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts across HealthTrust capabilities to develop integrated advisory solutions.

• Translate complex operational and financial data into actionable insights for leadership decision-making.

• Support development of financial models, business cases, and value analyses.

• Contribute to enterprise value articulation and strategic responses for new business opportunities.

• Support ongoing engagement with member organizations and internal stakeholders.

• Contribute to development of consulting tools, methodologies, and advisory frameworks within HealthTrust Performance Solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years of experience in healthcare consulting, health system operations, strategy, or performance improvement.

• Experience advising health system leadership on operational, financial, or strategic initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to structure complex initiatives and integrate multidisciplinary expertise.

• Experience developing executive presentations, strategic analyses, and financial models to support decision-making.

• Experience supporting enterprise performance improvement across supply chain, operations, or service lines.

• Experience working with large health systems or non-acute focused IDN’s and understanding their unique sourcing needs.

• Ability to travel up to 50%

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Healthcare Administration (MHA), or a related field.

• Lean, Six Sigma, or performance improvement certification

• Project Management certification (PMP)

Benefits

HealthTrust, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

In today's challenging business environment of cost pressures, supply disruptions, and workforce shortages, it is crucial for providers to efficiently manage expenses and enhance performance. HealthTrust, in collaboration with 1,800 hospitals and health systems, offers a specialized group purchasing organization (GPO) membership model designed to deliver immediate and sustainable cost savings. Their team of experts provides tailored value acceleration engagements to address specific needs, delivering unparalleled benefits. With nationwide purchasing power and a focus on overall spending management, HealthTrust offers unmatched pricing advantages on supplies, along with industry-leading benchmarks and best practices. The dedicated team is committed to guiding and implementing performance enhancements in cost, quality, and outcomes.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years. HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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