System Strategy Advisor

Children's Hospital Colorado; Aurora (CO); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health benefits

403b/retirement match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora seeks a System Strategy Advisor to serve as an internal strategy consultant to executive leadership, shaping long-range, enterprise-wide strategies across care models, capacity planning, and geographic expansion.

You will partner with vice presidents and physician leaders to challenge assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and build alignment on decisions with long-term implications for patients and providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Economics, Analytics, or related field.
• Three years of healthcare strategy, planning, and organizational development experience.
• Equivalency allows 1:1 year substitution of experience for education.

Responsibilities

• Develops long-range enterprise strategies, strategic plans, and recommendations influencing future direction of the organization.
• Serves as an internal strategy consultant and trusted advisor to executive leadership with data-informed recommendations.
• Identifies, evaluates, and develops strategic alternatives through structured problem solving and market assessment.
• Partners with executive, physician, and operational leaders to assess trends, risks, and opportunities influencing performance and growth.
• Facilitates complex discussions among senior leaders to evaluate opportunities and align on enterprise decisions.
• Develops and delivers executive-level presentations and strategic communications to convey analyses and recommendations.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Location: Aurora. Hybrid from Colorado.

Department: Planning and Business Development.

Position type: Regular. Full time, 40 hours per week. Shift: Day, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:40pm.

The System Strategy Advisor serves as an internal strategy consultant and trusted advisor to executive leadership, developing long-range, enterprise-wide strategies that shape the future direction of Children's Hospital Colorado. This role evaluates growth opportunities, emerging care models, market dynamics, service line strategies, facility and capacity needs, geographic expansion opportunities, and enterprise investment priorities. The Advisor supports executive decision-making through structured problem solving, market and organizational assessment, scenario planning, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and development of strategic alternatives and recommendations.

The Advisor partners with vice presidents, C-suite leaders, and physician leaders to challenge assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and build alignment around decisions with long-term implications for patients, providers, and the broader health system. The Advisor brings an independent, data-informed perspective and leads challenging conversations among senior leaders with competing priorities. This role is intended for professionals with formal strategy experience, either in a health system strategy department (adult or pediatric) or in healthcare strategy consulting, who have a track record of advising executive leadership on enterprise-level decisions.

Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Advisory

• 1. Develops long-range enterprise strategies, strategic plans, and recommendations that influence the future direction of the organization, including service line growth, care model evolution, geographic expansion, capacity planning, and investment priorities.
• 2. Serves as an internal strategy consultant and trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing independent, data-informed recommendations on complex organizational issues and opportunities.
• 3. Identifies, evaluates, and develops strategic alternatives through structured problem solving, market assessment, organizational assessment, stakeholder engagement, and quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• 4. Partners with executive, physician, and operational leaders to assess emerging trends, strategic risks, competitive positioning, and opportunities that may impact organizational performance and growth.

Analysis & Strategic Insight

• 1. Leads enterprise-level analyses to inform strategic decision-making, including market assessments, demand forecasting, business planning, service line evaluations, capacity analyses, scenario modeling, and investment prioritization.
• 2. Synthesizes internal data, external benchmarks, market intelligence, financial information, and stakeholder perspectives into actionable strategic insights and recommendations.
• 3. Develops business cases, strategic frameworks, decision support tools, and executive briefings that facilitate informed organizational decision-making.
• 4. Evaluates strategic trade-offs, implications, and potential outcomes associated with alternative courses of action and communicates findings to senior leadership.

Executive Engagement & Facilitation

• 1. Facilitates complex discussions among vice presidents, physician leaders, and executive leadership to evaluate strategic opportunities, challenge assumptions, surface competing priorities, and build alignment around enterprise decisions.
• 2. Develops and delivers executive-level presentations and strategic communications that effectively convey analyses, recommendations, risks, and decision points.
• 3. Establishes credibility and influence across diverse stakeholder groups through thought leadership, analytical rigor, and effective communication.

Strategy Development & Portfolio Support

• 1. Supports the development, refinement, and monitoring of enterprise strategic priorities and associated strategic initiatives.
• 2. Leads or contributes to enterprise strategy projects involving organizational growth, service distribution, care model design, network development, facility planning, capacity planning, research strategy, digital strategy, and other high-priority organizational initiatives.
• 3. Works collaboratively across the organization to ensure strategic recommendations are informed by operational, clinical, financial, and market considerations while maintaining focus on long-term organizational objectives.

Enterprise Leadership & Cultural Stewardship

• 1. Models Children's Hospital Colorado's mission, values, and culture by fostering collaborative partnerships, demonstrating integrity and intellectual curiosity, incorporating diverse perspectives into strategic planning, and facilitating respectful, transparent discussions that build trust and alignment across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Economics, Analytics, or related field.
• Experience
  • Three (3) years of experience in healthcare strategy, planning, and organizational development with emphasis on analyzing and interpreting large databases, utilizing data visualization to provide recommendations.
• Preferred qualifications: Master's degree plus one year experience in strategy planning.
• Equivalency
  • Combination of additional experience and education may substitute on a 1:1 year basis.

Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $112,925.51 to $169,388.27

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Estimated Close Date: 10/22/2026