Manager of Strategic & Planning

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Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.

We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

The Manager Strategy & Planning leads the development and execution of strategic and business planning activities. This role tracks and leads team progress towards outcomes and ensures that the Strategy and Planning team provides expert guidance to operations teams. Assists in the development and implementation of the corporate vision and key strategic priorities.

Department Name: Planning and Business Development
Job Status:40hrs FT
Shift: M-F 8-430p

• EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Communication, Business, Healthcare Administration, Economics, Analytics, or related field.
• EXPERIENCE: Five (5) years of experience developing and implementing strategic and/or business plans. Experience in advising senior leadership and/or consulting.
• EQUIVALENCY: Four (4) years of related experience, beyond stated requirements, may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree.

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

No direct patient care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

• Participates in leadership activities for the Strategy and Planning division, contributing to the achievement of goals and objectives and serves as a champion of enterprise-wide culture, influencing culture change to support functional objectives.
• Identifies and assigns resources to facilitate the strategic and business plan development process for prioritized areas.
• Collaborates with upline leadership to create departmental infrastructure including toolkits, approaches, and other resources, as necessary.
• Provides ongoing strategic counsel which includes identifying, analyzing and recommending actions that improve the Children's Hospital Colorado's (CHCO) value proposition, growth opportunities, operational excellence and competitive position
• Provides technical expertise on the development of business analytics, assessments and intelligence that support the overall strategic capability.
• Manages communications to the enterprise on projects and hot topics related to strategic and business planning activities. Effectively articulates and presents strategic priorities and implementation plans to a variety of audiences.
• Educates leadership and others on strategic planning and project management processes and templates. Provides support in directing and facilitating the strategic process.
• Reports complex data in a comprehensive and informative way, incorporating quantitative and qualitative information such as market share, forecasting, feasibility and competitive intelligence, and physician liaison field reports.
• Assigns and reviews work, provides work instruction and develops team members. Evaluates performance of team members, providing continuous feedback. Manages discipline and performance issues; hires and fires team members. Identifies resource needs and develops recommendations for meeting needs.
• Contributes to CHCO's forecast planning cycle, aligning business-unit plans with corporate goals and objectives.
• Leads and manages the implementation, tracking and progress reporting of multiple strategic engagements simultaneously through completion.
• Works collaboratively with physicians, operational leadership and finance team members in strategy and business plan development for the various service lines, clinical programs, and operational units. Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

SCOPE AND LEVEL

Guidelines: Guidelines are in the form of stated goals and objectives for function.

Complexity: Work assignment is unstructured and leader is responsible for implementing and managing a variety of objectives, resources, and initiatives to achieve the goals of the function. Duties performed include operational planning; developing standards, priorities, guidelines, processes, measurement (evaluation) systems; implementation of production and performance management standards; and allocating resources. Work is tactical and operational in nature.

Decision Making: Employee is responsible for planning, organizing, allocating resources, ensuring compliance with procedures, and achieving the objectives of the function.

Communications: Communication at this level is primarily internally focused and involves establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with team members, peers, directors, and executives. Provides guidance and interpretation of the enterprise's policies, procedures, and standards. Provides information to higher-level directors and executives.

Supervision Received: Responsible for achieving the objectives of function within the scope of established guidelines. Employee is expected to resolve problems that arise in the normal course of the work. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and feasibility of decisions.

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENT

Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good

Audio-Visual: Near Vision: Good

General Activity: Sit: 2-4 hrs. per day

Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: Up to 10 pounds: 1/3 or more of time

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Independent discretion/decision making.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works in close proximity to others and/or in a distracting environment.

Mental and Emotional Stress: Managing workload and system issues.

Mental Stress: multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, prioritizing.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development resources to help you advance and grow.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.