VP, Operational Excellence - #1 Hospital in CA

Cedars-Sinai; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedars-Sinai seeks a Vice President, Operational Excellence to establish the Accelerating Excellence Office and lead its portfolio of strategic and operational transformation initiatives. This senior leader aligns executives and clinical leaders to translate priorities into measurable financial and operational performance improvements.

The role ensures accountable governance, disciplined execution, and sustainable value realization beyond implementation across institutional priorities.

Qualifications

• Twelve years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare, academic medicine, strategy or finance.
• Seven years leading enterprise transformation, operating-model change or portfolio governance.
• Five years in a large academic medical center or similar complex organization.
• Five years guiding initiatives in revenue growth, cost improvement and operational performance.

Skills

leadership

transformation

portfolio governance

stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration

Master's degree in healthcare administration

Job description

Job Description

The Vice President, Operational Excellence establishes and leads the Accelerating Excellence Office and its portfolio of strategic and operational transformation initiatives. This position serves as the institution's senior administrative leader for transformation governance, value creation, portfolio prioritization, benefits realization, and transition of major initiatives to sustainable operational ownership.
The Vice President partners with the executive, physician and operations leaders as well as faculty and administrative leaders to translate institutional priorities into measurable improvements in financial and operational performance, and organizational value.
The Vice President is accountable for the AE operating model, portfolio governance, initiative prioritization and performance, executive escalation, reporting and project management discipline, consultant transition, and development of internal transformation capability. The position ensures that major initiatives have clear accountability, adequate resources, measurable outcomes, disciplined execution, and sustainable performance beyond implementation.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, clinical field, finance, strategy, operations, or a related field. (minimum)
• Master's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, clinical field, finance, strategy, operations, or a related field. (preferred)

Experience

• Twelve years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare, academic medicine, healthcare consulting, strategy, operations, finance, transformation, or a related field. (minimum)
• Seven years of experience leading complex enterprise transformation, operating-model change, performance improvement, portfolio governance, or large-scale organizational change.
• 5 years experience in a large academic medical center, integrated health system, physician enterprise, or similarly complex, matrixed organization.
• 5 years experience leading initiatives involving revenue growth, cost improvement, productivity, access, capacity, clinical operations, workforce effectiveness, enterprise integration, or organizational performance.