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CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER
Job Title: CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER
Job Code: 5447
FLSA: E
Job Level: N3
Revised Date: 05/01/2018
Supervisory Responsibility: Yes
General Description of the Job Class
As a member of the Duke University Health System (DUHS) senior leader team, the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) will lead efforts to identify and oversee the development, implementation, and sustainment of strategies to grow and differentiate DUHS as an academic healthcare system. These strategies may include developing business opportunities to establish partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, innovative business models and programs, and payor strategies. These specialized approaches will create opportunities for clinical collaboration in care, research and education. This highly visible role will work collaboratively across the enterprise and externally to enhance the reach of DUHS. Key to formulating strategies for the long term, this resource must be able to influence others to embrace a broader vision of what could be in the organization beyond what has already happened.
Duties and Responsibilities of this Level
- Lead the planning and development as well as monitor the deployment of business strategies to advance the mission of the organization.
- Monitor near- and long-term market trends as well as emerging need/interests among key stakeholders (e.g. patients, providers, payors, vendors, etc.) to forecast future trends and opportunities that inform strategies.
- Remain current on relevant and contemporary competitive intelligence to Identify growth opportunities inside and outside the market area and develop the strategies to achieve that potential.
- Collaborate with DUHS senior and entity leaders to ensure strategic plans and goals align with organizational priorities and monitor/measure performance.
- Ensure strategies are well communicated and translated into actionable and quantitative plans for entities and work units/functions.
- Serve as a key contributor to the budget development and monitoring processes.
- Actively engage senior management throughout the planning and deployment process to ensure alignment.
Required Qualifications at this Level
Education
Bachelor's degree in business or health-related field required; Master's degree in Business, Finance, Hospital Administration, or related field preferred
Experience
The work requires 15 years progressive leadership experience. Successful past experience managing complex change initiatives in a health-care environment required. Comfort with working in a collaborative and consensus building environment. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders that have a broad range of experiences and perspectives. Must be a strategic and visionary leader that takes initiative, has the stamina, emotional intelligence and strong interpersonal skills to operate strategically and effectively oversee the tactics in order to help drive and achieve differentiating business results. Successful track record of innovation and business development.
Degrees, Licensure, and/or Certification
N/A
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Forward thinking with the ability to engage others in casting a broader and focused vision
- Demonstrated ability to lead highly complex projects to completion and sustainment
-Able to earn the trust, confidence, and respect of the senior leadership team by listening, learning, and building credible relationships across the entirety of Duke Health
- Expert at effectively pivoting between strategic development and tactical deployment
- Adept at communicating throughout the organization and at all levels; translating the strategy to entity and individual role and responsibilities
- Astute with applying change management principles to effectively lead and navigate ambiguity and uncertainty
- Dynamic professional style that inspires confidence
- Builds high performing teams; develops and mentors talent
- Able to proactively cultivate new and innovative approaches and solutions to business problems
- Willing to challenge standard thinking with new ideas, approaches and solutions
- Self-directed and able to work independently while being thoughtfully collaborative
- Highest standards of integrity, ethics and performance
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral, with the ability to represent DUHS externally across a wide range of stakeholders
Distinguishing Characteristics of this Level
N/A
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.
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