VP, Strategic Initiatives (CXO Track)

Job Description

Northern Shore Capital | Behavioral Health / Psychiatry Platform

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Northern Shore Capital is seeking a high-caliber VP, Strategic Initiatives (CXO Track) to support the buildout and growth of a behavioral health / psychiatry platform within our private equity portfolio.

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This individual will serve as a right-hand partner to the CEO, working across the organization to tackle high-priority initiatives, solve complex problems, and help build the infrastructure required to scale a multi-site healthcare platform.

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This is not a traditional Chief of Staff role, nor is it confined to a single functional area. We are looking for a highly analytical, hands-on business athlete who can move seamlessly across strategy, finance, operations, business development, M&A, and special projects.

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The ideal candidate combines exceptional analytical horsepower with strong business judgment and a bias toward action. This person doesn't simply coordinate initiatives or make recommendations—they take ownership, dig into the details, develop solutions, and drive projects through execution.

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This role is designed to provide significant exposure to the CEO, executive leadership, Board, private equity sponsor, and all major areas of the business, creating a path for a high-performing individual to develop into a broader executive leadership role as the organization scales.

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What You’ll Do

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Serve as a Right-Hand Partner to the CEO

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• Partner directly with the CEO on the company's highest-priority strategic, financial, and operational initiatives.
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• Take complex or ambiguous business problems, create structure, develop solutions, and drive execution.
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• Serve as additional leadership horsepower on initiatives requiring focused attention and cross-functional coordination.
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• Conduct analysis and develop recommendations to support key business decisions.
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• Prepare executive-level analyses and materials for leadership, the Board, lenders, and private equity partners.
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• Translate CEO priorities into clear initiatives, accountability, and measurable results.
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Own Strategic & Special Projects  

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• Take ownership of high-impact initiatives that may not naturally sit within a single functional area.
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• Build business cases, financial models, market analyses, and implementation plans from the ground up.
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• Identify operational or financial challenges, dig into the underlying data, and work alongside functional leaders to develop and implement solutions.
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• Establish structure, processes, and reporting where infrastructure does not yet exist.
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• Step into critical initiatives when additional leadership, analytical support, or execution horsepower is needed.
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Support Growth & Corporate Development

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• Support the evaluation of acquisitions, partnerships, new markets, service lines, and other growth opportunities.
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• Develop financial and strategic analyses to evaluate potential investments and expansion opportunities.
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• Participate in acquisition diligence and integration planning alongside the CEO, CFO, private equity sponsor, and functional leadership.
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• Support business development initiatives and evaluate opportunities based on strategic fit, financial attractiveness, and operational feasibility.
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• Help develop repeatable playbooks to support continued expansion.
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Drive Business Performance

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• Partner with finance and operations to understand the key drivers of business performance.
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• Analyze financial and operational data across locations, providers, markets, and service lines.
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• Develop dashboards, reporting, and analysis that provide leadership with actionable insights.
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• Identify performance gaps and opportunities and help functional leaders translate insights into action.
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• Support annual planning, forecasting, KPI development, and other enterprise performance initiatives.
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Roll Up Your Sleeves

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This is a hands-on role in a growing organization. There will not always be an established process, clean data, or a predefined playbook.

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On any given day, you may be evaluating an acquisition, building a financial model, analyzing provider economics, preparing a Board presentation, helping solve an operational problem, evaluating a new market, digging through imperfect data, or leading a cross-functional initiative that simply needs to get done.

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You are expected to be as comfortable doing the work as you are presenting the answer.

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What You Bring

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A Business Athlete

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You are highly analytical, intellectually curious, and capable of quickly understanding complex businesses and problems. You aren't defined by a single functional specialty and are comfortable moving across strategy, finance, operations, growth, and execution.

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A Builder & Doer

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You have a strong bias toward action and a high degree of ownership. You don't wait for perfect information or a detailed playbook before moving forward.

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You are energized by building organizations where processes, teams, and infrastructure are still evolving.

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Analytically Strong

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You bring approximately 2–6 years of progressive experience in one or more of the following:

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• Private equity
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• Investment banking
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• Management consulting
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• Corporate development
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• Strategic finance
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• Strategy & operations
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• Private equity-backed healthcare services
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You have strong financial modeling and analytical skills and can translate complex information into clear business recommendations and actions.

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Comfortable Across the Organization

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You can move from a detailed financial model to an executive conversation without missing a beat. You communicate effectively with executives, clinicians, operators, investors, lenders, and other stakeholders while remaining willing to dig into the details yourself.

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Healthcare Experience

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Experience within multi-site healthcare services, behavioral health, psychiatry, physician practice management, or another rapidly growing healthcare environment is strongly preferred.

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Experience in a private equity-backed or high-growth organization is particularly valuable.

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Aspiring Enterprise Leader

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You are energized by opportunities that extend beyond a single functional area and provide a broader view of the business. You want to understand how the organization operates, grows, and makes executive-level decisions while building the breadth of experience required for future leadership roles.

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What Success Looks Like

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Success means becoming one of the CEO's most trusted partners and someone the leadership team turns to when an important, complex, or ambiguous initiative needs to get done.

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You will bring structure to ambiguity, analytical rigor to decision-making, and urgency to execution. You will help identify opportunities, solve problems, build capabilities, and move the organization's most important priorities forward.

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As the platform scales, the scope of the role is expected to grow with it. The CXO Track is intentionally broad—the long-term opportunity is to develop the enterprise-level experience, judgment, and leadership capabilities required to take on increasingly significant executive responsibility.