Specialist Resource Optimization Operations

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Time away from work

401(k) plan with match

Education support

Employee discounts

Job summary

HCA Healthcare in Nashville is seeking a Specialist Resource Optimization Operations to bridge analytics with practical execution. You will validate opportunities, assess feasibility, identify barriers, and translate insights into actions adopted by corporate, division, facility, and shared services leaders.

You will partner with Finance, HR, and Performance Improvement to support opportunities in labor management, overhead, productivity, and organizational redesign, contributing to enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• 5+ years of experience in healthcare operations, performance improvement, finance, labor management, or analytics.
• Experience translating analysis into practical, operationally feasible action plans.
• Experience partnering with operators, finance teams, HR partners, and/or corporate functional leaders.

Responsibilities

• Supports operational validation of enterprise value creation opportunities identified by PI & Finance.
• Conducts operational assessments to evaluate feasibility, implementation complexity, operational risk, dependencies, and expected impact.
• Applies operational knowledge to test assumptions, refine opportunity sizing, and identify practical execution considerations.
• Supports labor and organizational design reviews across corporate functions and targeted business areas.
• Identifies best practices and opportunities for replication in other areas across facilities and units.
• Analyzes workflows, staffing models, spans and layers, role design, and fixed-cost structures to identify improvements.
• Provides analysis and insights to support organizational design, redundancy assessments, and labor governance with HR and leaders.
• Develops data-supported findings and recommendations considering financial impact, feasibility, and execution risk.
• Prepares findings and risks for governance reviews and senior leadership.
• Supports sessions with owners to clarify scope, plans, timing, ownership, and outcomes.
• Supports transitioning initiatives to leaders and tracks early execution progress.

Skills

Healthcare operations

Analytics

Financial analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Operational validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Finance, Operations, Nursing, Engineering, Analytics, or related field

Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Operations, Analytics, or related field

Job description

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a Specialist Resource Optimization Operations? At HCA Healthcare, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Specialist Resource Optimization Operations supports the PI Resource Optimization Operations team by bringing operational, financial, and business-unit expertise to enterprise value creation work. This role helps bridge analytics and real-world execution by validating opportunities, assessing operational feasibility, identifying barriers, and translating insights into practical actions that can be adopted by corporate, division, facility, and shared services leaders.

The role partners with internal subject matter experts, corporate functions, field operators, Finance, HR, and Performance Improvement leaders to support value creation opportunities across labor management, corporate overhead, productivity, fixed cost, spans and layers, requisition governance, and operational redesign.

Responsibilities

• Supports operational validation of enterprise value creation opportunities identified by PI & Finance.
• Conducts operational assessments to evaluate feasibility, implementation complexity, operational risk, dependencies, and expected impact of identified opportunities.
• Applies operational knowledge and analysis to test assumptions, refine opportunity sizing, and identify practical execution considerations.
• Supports clean-sheet labor and organizational design reviews across corporate functions and targeted business areas.
• Identifies operational best practices across high-performing functions, facilities, and business units and evaluates opportunities for replication in lower-performing areas.
• Analyzes current workflows, staffing models, spans and layers, role design, productivity practices, and fixed-cost structures to identify improvement opportunities.
• Provides analysis and operational insights to support organizational design, redundancy assessments, requisition and backfill reviews, and labor governance processes in partnership with HR and business leaders.
• Develops data-supported findings and recommendations that consider financial impact, operational continuity, colleague considerations, and execution feasibility.
• Prepares operational findings, risks, dependencies, and implementation considerations to support Corporate LMAT governance and senior leader review.
• Supports working sessions with business owners to clarify opportunity scope, action plans, timing, ownership, and expected outcomes.
• Supports the transition of approved initiatives to business leaders and tracks early execution progress, risks, and identified issues.
• Maintains effective working relationships with operators, Finance, HR, and corporate functional partners to support value creation initiatives.

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Finance, Operations, Nursing, Engineering, Analytics, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in healthcare operations, performance improvement, finance, labor management, shared services, analytics, consulting, or enterprise transformation
• Experience supporting operational improvement, productivity, labor management, cost reduction, organizational redesign, or value creation initiatives
• Experience partnering with operators, finance teams, HR partners, and/or corporate functional leaders
• Experience translating analysis into practical, operationally feasible action plans

Preferred Education & Experience

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Operations, Analytics, or related field
• Hospital, corporate healthcare, shared services, or health system experience
• Prior experience in operations, finance, service line, performance improvement, project management, or corporate support functions

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, 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.

HCA Healthcare (Corporate) , based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities , every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program , where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry.

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 cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.