Vice President, Ambulatory Surgery Operations

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital seeks a visionary executive to lead pediatric ambulatory surgery operations within the Texas Children's Physician Organization. You will drive strategy, growth, and operational excellence while partnering with department chairs, leaders, and hospital executives to align clinical priorities with organizational goals.

The role focuses on optimizing access, patient experience, and financial performance across ambulatory services, with emphasis on quality and workforce

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10 years of healthcare administration or related administration experience.
• Within that experience: 5 years of formal management experience and 3 years as a senior leader.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of departmental strategies aligned with organizational priorities.
• Partner with physician leadership to identify growth opportunities and expand services.
• Oversee ambulatory operations to optimize access, scheduling, throughput, and patient experience.
• Provide executive leadership partnership to Department Chairs and Division Chiefs, aligning clinical and operational priorities.
• Drive financial performance through budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews.
• Champion quality, safety, patient experience, and workforce engagement across ambulatory surgery practices.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Executive partnership

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Job description

Job Description

The Vice President, Pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Operations, serves as the executive leader for the Department of Surgery within the Texas Children's Physician Organization and is responsible for the strategic, operational, and financial performance of pediatric ambulatory surgical services. This leader partners closely with Department Chairs, Division Chiefs, physician leaders, hospital executives, and system leaders to advance the department's mission while achieving growth, operational excellence, exceptional quality, patient and family experience, workforce engagement, and financial performance. The Vice President serves as the primary administrative partner to physician leadership, ensuring alignment between clinical priorities and operational execution across the Texas Children's Health System.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Growth

• Lead the development and execution of departmental strategies aligned with Texas Children’s and Physician Organization priorities.
• Partner with physician leadership to identify growth opportunities, expand services, strengthen referral capture, and increase access to pediatric surgical subspecialty care.
• Lead key enterprise initiatives focused on ambulatory standardization, digital transformation, and operational excellence.
• Serve as an executive administrative partner to Department Chairs and Division Chiefs, aligning clinical, operational, academic, and financial priorities. VicePresidentPediatricAmbulator…

Ambulatory Operations & Performance

• Develop and advance care delivery strategies and operating models that optimize access, scheduling, throughput, capacity utilization, patient flow, productivity, quality outcomes, and patient experience.
• Lead the transformation and integration of care delivery models to support organizational growth, operational excellence, and long-term sustainability.
• Drive consistency and standardization across ambulatory operations while recognizing the unique clinical and operational needs of individual surgical specialties.
• Partner with hospital operations to strengthen integration across inpatient and ambulatory services. VicePresidentPediatricAmbulator…

Financial Stewardship & Business Planning

• Provide leadership and accountability for operating budgets, capital planning, resource allocation, productivity, and overall financial performance.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, business planning, and financial performance reviews.
• Develop business cases supporting new programs, clinic expansion, recruitment, and strategic investments.
• Establish accountability for revenue growth, expense management, operational performance, and productivity goals through data‑driven performance monitoring. VicePresidentPediatricAmbulator…

Quality, Safety & Patient Experience

• Establish accountability for quality, patient safety, patient and family experience, workforce engagement, and key operational performance indicators.
• Champion continuous improvement, regulatory compliance, and service excellence across ambulatory surgery practices.
• Partner with physicians, leaders, patients, and families to address concerns and advance patient‑centered care. VicePresidentPediatricAmbulator… VicePresidentPediatricAmbulator…

Leadership & Organizational Development

• Lead, coach, and develop Directors, Practice Administrators, and operational leaders to strengthen leadership effectiveness and organizational capability.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, service excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Lead succession planning, organizational design, physician engagement, and leadership development strategies that support workforce sustainability and future growth.
• Ensure organizational structures, staffing plans, and leadership responsibilities remain aligned with strategic and operational priorities.
• Model Texas Children’s HEART values — Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust — while building a responsive, service‑oriented culture. VicePresidentPediatricAmbulator… VicePresidentPediatricAmbulator…

Executive Partnership & Governance

• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on surgical services, workforce trends, growth opportunities, market dynamics, and enterprise priorities.
• Represent the Department of Surgery and Physician Organization on executive councils and enterprise committees.
• Build strong partnerships across Finance, HR, Strategy, Revenue Cycle, Nursing, academic partners, and other key stakeholders to advance organizational goals.
• Communicate operational, financial, and organizational performance through executive dashboards and routine leadership reviews.
• Support enterprise accreditation, regulatory, compliance, and quality initiatives across ambulatory and physician operations.

Required

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10 years of healthcare administration or other related administration experience
• Within that experience:
  • At least 5 years of formal management experience
  • At least 3 years as a senior leader

Preferred

• Master’s degree

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high‑risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state‑of‑the‑art facility providing world‑class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after‑hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

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Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.