UHealth Business Development Associate - Physician Integration

University of Miami; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Tuition remission

Job summary

The University of Miami Health System in South Florida seeks a Business Development Associate to support physician integration and service line growth across UHealth. You will coordinate onboarding of recruited physicians, activate milestones, monitor progress, and partner with operations, IT, and HR to enable successful practice launches.

Qualified candidates have a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience, strong communication, teamwork, and adaptability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 3+ years of relevant experience required.
• Demonstrated learning agility and adaptability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversees physician integration activities across assigned service lines, departments and practices.
• Coordinates physician acquisition, recruitment, and practice integration initiatives, including activation timelines and stakeholder communications.
• Maintains onboarding and activation documentation, milestone reports, risk logs, and leadership status updates.
• Collaborates with multiple stakeholders to facilitate effective physician integration activities.
• Identifies, monitors, and escalates barriers and operational issues impacting readiness and launches.

Skills

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Technical Proficiency

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Job description

The Business Development Department at UHealth has an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Associate/Physician Integration and Business Development

CORE JOB SUMMARY

The UHealth Business Development Associate (H) supports strategic growth, physician integration, and business development initiatives across the UHealth enterprise. The incumbent coordinates the onboarding and integration of newly recruited physicians, acquired physician practices, and new programs and services while supporting service line growth and expansion efforts. This role partners with clinical, operational, and administrative stakeholders to facilitate implementation activities, monitor project milestones, identify risks and opportunities, and support organizational growth priorities. The UHealth Business Development Associate (H) analyzes operational, financial, market, and performance data to develop recommendations that support strategic decision-making, physician engagement, practice integration, and service line development.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

1. Oversees physician integration activities across assigned service lines, departments, and practices to support operational readiness and successful onboarding.
2. Coordinates physician acquisition, recruitment, and practice integration initiatives, including activation timelines, readiness milestones, stakeholder communications, and issue resolution.
3. Maintains physician integration trackers, onboarding and activation documentation, milestone reports, risk logs, and leadership status updates to support integration efforts.
4. Collaborates with Business Development, Physician and Provider Relations, Faculty Recruitment, Human Resources, Medical Staff Services, Information Technology, Revenue Cycle, Marketing, Operations, and other stakeholders to facilitate effective physician integration activities.
5. Identifies, monitors, and escalates barriers, risks, and operational issues that may impact physician readiness, practice launch, referral connectivity, integration success, or organizational objectives.
6. Coordinates Day-1 readiness activities and facilitates ongoing integration follow-up processes to monitor progress, promote physician engagement, and support successful practice transitions.
7. Executes physician, provider, and clinical staff integration workstreams associated with physician acquisitions, practice affiliations, and other business development transactions, including operational, technology, revenue cycle, vendor, lease, and staffing transition activities.
8. Participates in transaction due diligence activities to assess integration requirements, implementation costs, staffing needs, operational considerations, and growth assumptions, and monitors post-implementation performance against established objectives.
9. Supports physician engagement, referral development, networking opportunities, and cross-specialty collaboration initiatives to enhance organizational growth and connectivity.
10. Develops, organizes, and maintains service line growth plans, including market assessments, competitive analyses, volume forecasts, financial projections, access strategies, and growth opportunities in partnership with service line leadership and Business Development.
11. Partners with executive sponsors and department leadership to advance strategic growth initiatives, market development priorities, practice integration opportunities, service line expansion efforts, and related implementation activities.
12. Supports the development, implementation, and expansion of new or restructured service lines, programs, and growth initiatives, including governance frameworks, performance measures, operational planning, workforce planning, space utilization, and care delivery models.
13. Prepares and analyzes integration reports, dashboard summaries, growth tracking materials, market intelligence, operational metrics, and performance data to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and actionable recommendations for leadership.
14. Monitors project milestones, implementation progress, key performance indicators, risks, action items, and deliverables while developing collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support departmental and organizational objectives.
15. Adheres to University and UHealth policies, procedures, regulatory requirements, and established internal controls.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required

Experience: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience required

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine.

As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year.

Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care.

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The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System (“UHealth”) have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation.

The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs.

Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride.

The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019.

The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022.

With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.