Vice President, Operational Excellence

Enterprise Operational Excellence Strategy Develop and lead the multi-year operational excellence roadmap, ensuring strong alignment with the organization’s long-term strategy and annual goals. Identify and prioritize value streams and breakthrough initiatives that will deliver impact on quality, safety, access, patient experience, team member engagement and affordability. Strategy Deployment Develop and oversee the system’s strategy deployment process, ensuring that breakthrough goals and annual priorities are clearly defined, aligned and resourced. Establish catchall processes to engage leaders across the organization in aligning goals, identifying performance gaps and confirming ownership. Establish visual strategy deployment systems and lead regular performance reviews focused on countermeasures, learning and delivery of enterprise outcomes. Performance Improvement & Breakthrough Achievement Oversee the execution of high-impact improvement initiatives using methodologies such as value stream mapping, rapid improvement events, standard work and 3P design. Lead cross-functional teams to eliminate waste, improve flow, expand access, enhance reliability, and reduce total cost of care. Establish sustainment mechanisms that integrate into daily management – e.g. standard work audits – to ensure operational stability and maintain improvements over time. Lean Management System & Daily Management Implement and oversee a comprehensive lean management system, including tiered daily huddles, leader standard work, visual management, standard work audits and A3 problem solving. Coach leaders at all levels in using daily management to sustain operations, surface problems early and drive continuous improvement. Ensure consistency, rigor and spread of daily management across all hospitals, ambulatory sites and shared services. Leadership Development & Culture Building Develop leaders and staff at all levels in lean thinking, A3 problem solving, daily management and accountability-based leadership practices. Model a leadership style focused on respect for people, humility, transparency, and performance discipline. Promote psychological safety and continuous learning through frequent Gemba presence, humble inquiry and support for structured experimentation. Performance Measurement & Results Partner with Quality, Finance, HR, Patient Experience, operations and service lines to define aligned system and site-level KPIs tied to breakthrough goals and daily management. Monitor progress on systemwide improvement goals and communicate actionable insights on performance, trends, risks and countermeasures to executive leadership. Deliver measurable, high-impact improvements in quality, safety, access, patient experience, team member engagement and cost of care. #J-18808-Ljbffr Atlantic Health System