CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

Our Blood Institute (OBI) is seeking a Chief Operations Officer (COO) for its Oklahoma City headquarters location. The COO will provide leadership, guidance and oversight for core blood center operations to include: Donor Recruitment; Donor Services (whole blood and automated blood collections in mobile and fixed site locations); Technical Operations (donor testing laboratory, product manufacturing laboratory, Quality Control Laboratory, and inventory management/logistics/distribution); subcenter (8) /satellite (9) operations; and Client Relations/Contracting.

This position will assure donor and product safety through maintenance of cGMP practices and compliance with FDA, AABB, and other regulatory standards. He/She will recruit and foster the talent required to staff a dependable, high performance, engaged, and innovative team now and for the future. They will develop annual budgets at the organizational level (demand planning) and for supervised departments, with an eye to maximizing efficiencies and expanding revenue streams. They will also recommend new technologies and capital expenditures that are necessary to keep the organizations operations at the leading edge of performance. They will maintain productive industry collaborations and relationships via group purchasing organizations and professional/industry associations while working with executive leadership to shape strategic plans to benefit the organization's principle functions of blood product acquisition, processing, and distribution.

Location: Oklahoma City, OK

Benefits: Health, dental, vision, life insurance, long term disability, 401(k), paid time off, annual tuition reimbursement, holiday pay, etc.

Days: Monday through Friday

Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university (biologic sciences major preferred).
• Graduate degree (management, administrative, or quantitative field, preferred).
• Ten years (min.) of progressive responsibility in healthcare, having attained a senior executive position.
• Five years (min.) blood center experience (accountability in multiple operational areas, preferred).
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to manage numerous tasks effectively in a fast paced, episodically stressful, mission critical role.
• Self-starting mindset yielding dependable delivery of accountabilities with minimum direction.
• Ability to function conversantly in a technology-dependent, complex systems environment.
• Aptitude in budgeting, financial reporting, and economic decision making.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills.
• Evident personal and professional values, including honesty, integrity, reliability, and compassion.
• Workplace traits to include: positive outlook, team orientation, and respectful sociability.
• Evident passion for our essential mission as the Donor to Patient Lifeline.
• Residence within daily commuting distance of downtown Oklahoma City.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively across our service are, to include occasional overnight stays.

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