Executive Vice President and President - Behavioral Health Division

Executive Vice President, UHS and President, Behavioral Health Division

Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. UHS has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 300 corporation. The company has approximately 101,500 employees and operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities, and various related services across the U.S., Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.

The UHS Behavioral Health Division is the largest facility-based behavioral health provider in the United States, treating more than 700,000 behavioral health patients annually. The Division has a number of successful integration partnerships around the country and offers a range of specialty service lines, including substance use disorder treatment, eating disorder treatment, autism spectrum disorder services, and child & adolescent residential services.

This opportunity offers the following:

• Competitive compensation & generous paid time off
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• SoFi student loan refinancing program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ subsidiaries

The President, Behavioral Health Division will have direct responsibility for driving the strategy, operations, and profitable growth for the $7.6 billion behavioral health services business. The President will manage a high-performance organization and maintain a culture of operational excellence, service, and clinical quality. The President will oversee a distributed team providing credible and inspiring leadership by developing and articulating a compelling vision and demonstrating a dedication to best practice business execution.

The successful candidate will have the experience and understanding that comes from working in best-of-class healthcare organizations and will have an exceptional reputation, gained through proven success within the healthcare industry. Specific responsibilities will include:

• P&L responsibility for the management, overall strategy, capital expenditures, and oversight of the Behavioral Health business
• Successfully integrate Talkspace into the UHS Behavioral Health Division
• Set the future direction for the Behavioral Health Division and lead the company into the next phase of growth
• Drive a culture of clinical and quality excellence across the Behavioral Health Division
• Provide operational and financial leadership through the development and implementation of short-term and long-term tactical and strategic plans to achieve business goals and objectives
• Oversee the development of KPIs and operational framework to allow the behavioral health business to continue to scale
• Drive growth strategy, taking into account market, regulatory, and competitive dynamics
• Identify and pursue acquisitions with the support of the development team
• Provide credible and inspiring leadership through the combination of a thoughtful and innovative approach with consistent and impactful business execution in the market
• Actively monitor and enhance the organizational structure and Behavioral Health Division leadership team to provide best-in-class performance
• Improve the capabilities at all levels of the organization through assessment and development of existing people and the recruitment of new talent
• Proactively address succession planning
• Effectively leverage current infrastructure and develop a thoughtful plan for evolving infrastructure and organizational chart to ensure scalability
• Develop and foster strong relationships with physicians and clinical leadership
• Create and sustain a culture that is highly appealing to clinicians
• Partner internally with Corporate Functions that provide core services to the Behavioral Health Division
• Actively and effectively work with various constituent parties (e.g. payers, external partners, clinicians, and consumers) to evangelize the company and support all business building activities
• Build strong and collaborative relationships with the CEO, Board, and senior leadership team
• Present to the UHS Board of Directors on the performance and strategy of the Behavioral Health Division

Key relationships include reporting to Marc Miller, President & Chief Executive Officer, and direct reports such as Division Senior Vice Presidents, Senior Vice President, Finance, BH Division, Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer, BH Division, Senior Vice President, Chief Growth Officer, BH Division, Senior Vice President, Payer Strategies, BH Division, VP, Chief Medical Officer, BH Division, VP, Quality and Physician Alignment, BH Division, VP, Support Service Operations, BH Division, AVP Corporate Development, BH Division. The President will also relate to Executive Vice President and President, Acute Care, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Senior Vice President, Strategic Services, and externally to strategic partners, payers, joint venture partners, CMS, state regulators, community leaders, and industry organizations.

The President, Behavioral Health Division will be an experienced and respected healthcare executive with a proven track record of leading and growing a $5 billion+ healthcare business. S/he will likely have held the title of CEO, COO, or Division President within a significant and successful for-profit company. The President will possess a bachelor's degree and preferably a master's level degree in business, healthcare administration, or a related field. This inspirational, authentic leader will be inquisitive, hands-on, adaptable, and future-focused, with an ability to be laser focused on operational metrics while also developing a behavioral health strategy that enables UHS to effectively scale and continually differentiates its offerings from competitors as the market leader in behavioral health services.

The successful candidate will thrive in an environment that is fast paced, non-hierarchical, and performance driven. The President will know what "great" looks like, with an understanding of best-in-class controls and operating processes. The successful candidate will have a strong and proven track record driving organizational transformation in a highly dynamic and competitive market. The ideal candidate will establish a culture comfortable with challenging the status quo to achieve and exceed goals. Focused on successful operational implementation, this hands-on leader will prioritize and execute consistently, across the network. They will have a track record of engaging and leading large teams of clinicians across a national platform. Ideally, this leader will also bring experience presenting to a Board of Directors. The President will have a distinguished track record of growth, navigating complex M&A deals and joint ventures, organic growth, and staying ahead of market opportunities. This leader will have driven organizations forward with a focus on top-line growth and cost reduction. They will be expected to combine broad conceptual thinking skills with pragmatic operations experience and must have demonstrated the ability to get things done and deliver business results.

In terms of the performance and personal competencies required for the position, we would highlight the following:

• Executing for Results: Operates with a sense of urgency. Has demonstrated an ability to drive revenue, profitability, and shareholder value. Demonstrated successful leadership skills in driven, results-oriented cultures. A bias for action and comfort with both making decisions and shouldering the responsibility for them. A successful track record of growing business in a dynamic, highly competitive environment, likely requiring calculated risks. Leads with intensity, purpose, and a strong commitment to achieving ambitious goals. Holds oneself to the highest standards of accountability; has the ability to drive change while maintaining operating effectiveness; integrates and aligns efforts across business units and functions; monitors results; tackles problems directly and delegates effectively. Brings demonstrated track record driving clinical quality performance excellence.
• Leading Teams: Demonstrated track record of recruiting, developing, retaining, and motivating a diverse leadership team comprised of high caliber talent. Accurately appraises strengths and development areas of their team, provides constructive feedback and develops strong successors. Mentorship. One who enjoys and has a track record of making an organization significantly more effective through personal role modeling combined with a disciplined performance management and development process. A mature, self-confident executive with strong interpersonal skills who can lead by influence and support as much as by organizational reporting structures. Provides feedback effectively and holds team members accountable for their performance. Makes tough decisions when necessary.
• Setting Strategy: Excellent strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to develop strategies and strategic alternatives through an in-depth analytical approach. Ability to apply intellectual rigor and analysis in decision-making and maintain confidence of key stakeholders. Independent thinker who can manage ambiguity and devise solutions when a clear path otherwise does not exist. They will be able to set and execute a roadmap for transformation and growth.
• Relationships and Influence: Demonstrates passion for the business and their role; espouses a collaborative approach; leads by example. Is a keen influencer of others with a focus on achieving outcomes. Excellent communicator in both the written and oral form; understands how to approach communication from an operating perspective; ability to create clear, Board-ready, and convincing presentations and communications. Promotes ideas and new proposals persuasively; shapes stakeholder opinions; works through conflicts and difficult situations; negotiates for win/win solutions. Cultivates an active network of relationships at all levels. Respects and appreciates the confidentiality and sensitivity of specific information and situations.

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