VP Digital Planning, Strategy & Transformation

As a key executive leader, the Vice President of Digital Planning, Strategy & Transformation at Fairview Health Services will be instrumental in driving the strategic direction and execution

of digital and technological advancements. This role is accountable for ensuring that digital initiatives are in lockstep with our health system’s mission and overarching business goals. The

Vice President of Digital Planning, Strategy & Transformation will be responsible for the overall digital planning, strategy, and transformation with the direct responsibility for Information Technology (IT) Vendor Management, Enterprise Architecture, Global workforce, and Affiliates and Partnerships.

• Leadership: Manage functions, associated teams and budget. Responsible for talent engagement and development.
• Strategy & Governance: Accountable for driving the creation and execution of a comprehensive digital and technology strategy. This includes leading the preparation and facilitation of materials for Board and Senior Management meetings and partnering with stakeholders for the effective governance of digital strategies and projects.
• External Partnerships & Vendor Management: Responsible for leading the IT Vendor Management Office (VMO) and maintaining strategic relationships with vendors, partners, and affiliates, ensuring that contracts and collaborations align with our digital aspirations.
• Labor Management and Strategy: Lead the development of strategies for leveraging a global workforce. This involves driving initiatives to attract, retain, and develop top-tier technology talent, ensuring high-quality engineering standards are met.
• Delivery Excellence: Accountable for driving operational excellence, ensuring delivery of digital services is efficient, effective, and adds continuous value. This role is responsible for overseeing the redesign of support models to enhance service delivery and user experience, as well as for instituting quality control measures.
• Enterprise Architecture: Define and optimize a resilient and agile enterprise architecture that is in alignment with strategic business initiatives.
• Innovation & Transformation: Act as a driving force and expert resource for significant organizational transformations, assessing and integrating external innovations for strategic fit and adoption.
• Change Management: Lead and partner in key change management initiatives, ensuring successful adoption of digital transformations and deployment of new support models.
• Planning: Lead the process of allocation of human, financial, and technical resources, plan efficient workflows, processes and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the function to drive accountability, and ensure continuous improvement

Required Education and Experience

Education

• Bachelor’s (or foreign equivalent) degree in Business Administration, Healthcare, IT, Healthcare Administration, or a closely-related field. 

Experience

• 10 years of progressive leadership experience demonstrating increasing levels of accountability of delivery and operations.
• 5 years of leadership experience focusing in: Program Management; Engagement Management; Client Relationship Management; Business Systems Analysis; and People Management.
• 5 years of work experience executing large-scale digital and technology transformation projects within the health care industry.