Regional Vice President of Continuous Improvement, St. Louis and Southern IL Regions

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MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

This position is located on-site at our health system's headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri and is not remote work eligible.

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SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900 providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.
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With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Angela Jones

Executive Talent Acquisition

Angela.Jones1@ssmhealth.com

Job Summary:

Responsible and accountable for planning, developing, implementing, and managing processes, which support System Health Ministries in deploying the SSM Health Operating Model and achieving their operating plan objectives. Specifically, this role is responsible for building and leading a system-wide approach to Continuous Improvement, including standardized philosophy, models, systems, training, guidance, tools, and techniques. This position works collaboratively with the System Leadership Teams, User Groups, and a wide variety of internal and external constituencies.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Supports SSM Health Ministry Markets/Lines of Business in achieving strategic goals by leading cross-functional teams through operational improvement initiatives resulting in improved efficiencies, advancing operational standardization and achievement of growth plans and strategies.
• Responsible for inspiring, innovating and implementing transformational strategies to respond to internal and external drivers, as well as challenging existing practices, and partnering with stakeholders to identify innovative ways of achieving strategic KPI’s and goals.
• A growth-oriented leader with demonstrated success in developing systems and executing strategies to implement a continuous improvement program and culture that delivers substantive productivity and/or profitability gains year over year.
• Act as a senior advisor to provide value-added collaboration with the operational and clinical executive leaders to ensure prioritization of initiatives and identified solutions are in alignment with the overall objective and strategy of the organization.
• Oversees the Continuous Improvement team within the system to provide strategic and operational guidance, resourcing, and program/project management expertise to support consulting engagements, operational improvements, and processes identified as strategic priorities of the organization.
• Leads advanced process improvement activities through engagement of teams, subject matter experts, stakeholders and bench marking.
• Utilizes lean principles and systems thinking to identify complex interrelated processes that contribute to the success and failures of an organization.
• Facilitates complex accelerated improvement workshops for value stream analysis, standard work, improved throughput, quality improvement, cost reduction, workplace organization and other objectives.
• Partners with system VP’s to identify best countermeasures and combined solutions to address root causes.
• Provides expert advice and leadership in implementing action plans and development of sustainment/control plans for solutions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree with equivalent experience

EXPERIENCE

• Ten years' experience, with five years' in leadership

Department:

8726000033 Continuous Improvement System Office

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). 

• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. 

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SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Click here to learn more.