Senior Director, System Operational Process Improvement

Sentara Health; Virginia Beach (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental plans

401k with employer match

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Sentara Health in Virginia Beach, VA seeks a Senior Director of Strategic Transformation to lead enterprise-wide change initiatives. The role oversees a cross-functional team and collaborates with senior leaders to deliver end-to-end programs that meet scope, schedule, and budget targets.

The incumbent will drive portfolio governance, measure KPIs, and push for continuous improvement, leveraging data trends to uncover opportunities for optimization and speed to market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree required.
• Six Sigma Black Belt required.
• 3 years accounting/finance experience.
• 3 years healthcare management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead re-imagination of end-to-end processes by challenging legacy assumptions and ways of working.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, eliminate, or redesign work.
• Redefine workflows, decision paths, and governance for clarity.
• Develop practical, non-technology-led solutions to reduce complexity and friction.
• Translate concepts into clear, prioritized improvement plans.
• Partner with IT to align processes with AI or automation enablement.
• Ensure technology is applied after processes are simplified.
• Drive cross-functional alignment to adopt new process designs.
• Track impact on efficiency, speed, and effectiveness.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Program management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor degree

Six Sigma Black Belt

Job description

City/State

Virginia Beach, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

The Senior Director of Strategic Transformation is a leadership role focused on leading and influencing while overseeing large-scale organizational changes. This role requires alignment to senior leaders, strategic vision, and the ability to drive successful change across the enterprise. This leader is responsible for all aspects of leading a diverse, cross‑functional team (both direct and matrix reports) that provides support for successful end‑to‑end delivery of initiatives/programs/projects - driving pace, speed to market and key consumer outcomes based on organizational strategy and needs.

Building strong, collaborative relationships with enterprise leaders to define, prioritize, and develop programs and initiatives is critical to maximize efficiencies and ensure financial targets are met (inclusive of value, outcomes measurements and KPIs).

This dynamic leader will excel in:

• cross-functional collaboration, negotiation, resource alignment, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement.
• overseeing project portfolios, and ensuring transformation and project management standards across the organization, managing program leaders, project managers and teams
• execution and delivery that is on scope, schedule, and budget
• analyzing data to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for improvement
• developing new skills and capabilities within the organization to support ongoing transformation initiatives
• tracking and measuring performance against key metrics and targets

Role Responsibilities – Transformation Office

• Lead re‑imagination of end‑to‑end processes by challenging legacy assumptions and ways of working
• Identify opportunities to simplify, eliminate, or fundamentally redesign work
• Redefine workflows, decision paths, and governance to improve flow and clarity
• Develop practical, non‑technology‑led solutions to reduce complexity and friction
• Translate re‑imagined concepts into clear, prioritized improvement plans
• Partner with IT to align re‑designed processes with targeted AI or automation enablement
• Ensure technology is applied only after processes are meaningfully simplified
• Drive cross‑functional alignment to adopt new process designs and operating models
• Track impact of re‑imagined solutions on efficiency, speed, and effectiveness

Required at time of hire:

• Bachelor level degree
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• 3 years accounting/finance
• 3 years healthcare management
• Work in person/hybrid in Virginia Beach, Virginia at Sentara Park Corporate Office

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco‑free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.