Vice President, Innovator in Residence

Job Req ID: 257342

Position Number: 834578

Employment Type: Full Time

Shift: Day

Shift Details:

Standard Hours: 40

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Location: CHS Corporate Operations

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Carolinas HealthCare System is Atrium Health. Our mission remains the same: to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all. The name Atrium Health allows us to grow beyond our current walls and geographical borders to impact as many lives as possible and deliver solutions that help communities thrive. For more information, please visit carolinashealthcare.org/AtriumHealth

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the Innovator in Residence (IIR) has accountability for leveraging Atrium’s assets and people to accelerate impactful innovation. The Innovator in Residence is responsible for collaborating across all boundaries to create the overarching strategy, governance, tools and processes, and org that will reach the next level of breakthrough and impactful innovation.

The candidate must work collaboratively with other senior executives and all leaders and levels of the organization to develop and implement a broad innovation framework that is strategically aligned with Atrium’s vision and strategy. s/he is responsible for recognizing, fostering and prioritizing innovation as a system and culture within Atrium by partnering closely inside the organization and through external partnerships.

The IIR will help to build and nurture a forward-thinking culture of ideation, incubation, implementation and entrepreneurship, and accelerate the pace of value-add and impactful innovation within Atrium. This role will lead to a significant innovation leadership role within Atrium Health.

Position Accountabilities:

• Collaborates to Develop and lead the formation of an enterprise wide innovation strategy, governance, and method that will harness the insights and passion of Atrium’s 60k+ employees.
• Helps lead an enhanced operational/execution mindset and business acumen for innovation within Atrium
• Develops and leads key strategic initiatives that advance the mission and growth goals of the organization, using innovation as a platform and economic engine
• Builds a platform and method for evidence based innovation for the enterprise.
• Where impactful leads collaborations with other academic institutions, industries, partners, collaborators and venture capitalists
• Champions the generation and collection of innovative ideas by collaborating at all levels of the organization
• Deploys methodologies to manage the end-to-end innovation lifecycle from define, design, launch, pilot, scale to fully operationalize and when relevant, commercialize
• Advocates for and maintains a pipeline of breakthrough ideas, technologies, products, services and business models that produces or enhances value
• Fully leverages what is already in place at Atrium with its Innovation Engine and past successes.
• Partners in translating and advancing Atrium’s vision by implementing a people-first and evidence based innovation system.
• Challenges the normal pace and impact of by influencing quantum change, continuous learning and creative thinking as well as facilitates ideas achieving success, scaling up and sustaining maximum effectiveness through potential organizational inertia
• Effectively educates and communicates to stakeholders the theory, tools, methods, and language of innovation in order to engage and build the momentum for leaders and the organization to embrace a way of thinking, behaving and performing.
• Partners with HR leadership to define and deploy the behaviors and competencies of innovation leadership.
• Leads cross-functional projects and teams to ensure successful project implementation.
• Leads the development of a budget for innovation and metrics for innovation
• Will implement a standard set of tools and methods that will drive to innovation outcomes in all areas. This will empower all teams to be innovators on their own with a tight collaboration with the Innovation Engine.
• Leads the effort to build capability throughout the company through classes, projects, online learning so that innovation methods and tools and skills will be scalable across the enterprise, which will create a standard language to accelerate broad impact.

Qualifications:

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree and MBA, MPH, MD, PhD or related master’s-level degree is strongly preferred.

Work Experience, Skills & Abilities:

• A minimum of ten years of progressive senior management experience and a growing national reputation for innovation.
• An extensive network of relationships that will promote up-to-date knowledge of all pertinent developments in the industry and new partnership opportunities.
• An astute understanding of the theory, methods, tools and language needed to deliver impactful innovation and to create an enterprise-wide innovation culture.
• Demonstrated skills and knowledge in working with external innovators to harness solutions for the improvement of care deliver, consumer experience, etc….
• A track record of succeeding in a complex, multi-site, highly regulated matrixed organization.
• Direct and proven experience leading innovation in a healthcare setting.

Business Acumen

• A profound understanding of the trends, challenges, and opportunities facing the healthcare industry, and an appreciation of Atrium’s unique position and opportunity within the industry.
• Sharp financial acumen, an understanding of the financial underpinnings of business models, ability to conduct ROI and breakeven analysis; fluid knowledge of trends in venture capital and seed stage funding.
• Known for translating hidden opportunities into organization results; consistently poses questions that provoke different thinking.
• Risk-taker, willing to appropriately and empathetically push the culture to be bold and take a rigorous approach to innovation

Setting Strategy

• Respected by innovation peers. Someone who has bold ideas on innovation and how to scale innovation across large enterprises.
• An analogous thinker, recognizing, connecting and leveraging patterns and trends of information and experiences that lead to potential solutions; the successful candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity while focusing on implementing an innovation system.
• Encourages working beyond typical attitudes of compromise and complacency that limit creativity.

Executing

• Holds the highest standards of performance for himself/herself and the team; goes beyond conventional performance benchmarks, and consistently sets and achieves ambitious targets.
• Persists when faced with challenging obstacles, possesses high levels of energy, endurance and resilience.
• Translates the mission of the organization into actionable, quantitative plans; brings a sharp business and operational acumen to innovation while enhancing collaboration and creativity throughout the org.

Leading

• A cultural architect, creating and connecting networks of “innovation ambassadors” across the enterprise. S/he will nurture a culture that embraces creative thinking and innovative curiosity; creating a culture that accepts failure, and knows when and how to sunset unpromising projects.
• Capable of recruiting, developing and retaining innovation talent.

Building Relationships and Influencing

• A collaborative influencer, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to rapidly advance innovation impact within Atrium. Skillfully addresses gaps in leadership support, and collaborates to enhance organizational effectiveness in the realm of innovation.
• Politically savvy and diplomatically aware. Able to recognize nuances in reading others, and balance data, positional power and personality when influencing others.
• Quick to establish credibility, trust and rapport; an authentic and empathetic approach and highly adaptable communication style.

Enterprise Leadership Imperatives:

Thinks Critically and Strategically

• Engages in rigorous problem definition, data collection, and analysis, then makes good decisions in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Recognizes important patterns in complex environments, distills the essence, and communicates through “powerful simplification.”
• Sees the big picture and has a long-term perspective, while balancing it against short-term realities.

Envisions and Enacts the Future

• Creates and communicates compelling visions of exciting, achievable futures.
• Mobilizes people and transforms organizations to realize the vision.
• Catalyzes innovation and builds supporting capabilities.
• Is a committed steward of the Atrium Health culture.

Connects and Collaborates Across Atrium Health

• Recognizes the critical importance of integration and collaboration in achieving high performance.
• Convenes and nurtures cross-system teams, and works effectively in the “white spaces.”
• Seeks win-win outcomes and puts the well-being of the patient and the overall organization first.
• Leads effectively across cultures.

Builds and Leads Inclusive, High-performing Leadership Teams

• Understands the value of diversity in teams and gets the best out of all people.
• Establishes trust and creates a culture of psychological safety to enable candid debate.
• Builds consensus; decides when necessary.
• Delivers outstanding results through others.

Understands and Shapes the External Environment

• Is deeply knowledgeable about the Atrium Health business model and the consumer, competitive, political and social environments in which the organization operates.
• Understands the importance of actively engaging with and shaping these environments.
• Identifies, assesses and builds relationships with key stakeholders.
• Mobilizes and directs supporting capabilities in public affairs, communications and government relations to achieve desired outcomes.

Builds Talent for and Across the System

• Demonstrated personal accountability for developing future generations of Atrium Health leaders who reflect the diversity of communities we serve.
• Engages actively with colleagues in assessing and developing executive talent, focusing on competencies and character.
• Invests time in coaching and mentoring high-potentials for success.
• Is a role model, embodying the best of Atrium Health’s culture.

At Atrium Health, formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, our patients, communities and teammates are at the center of everything we do. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion allows us to deliver care that is superior in quality and compassion across our network of more than 900 care locations.

As a leading, innovative health system, we promote an environment where differences are valued and integrated into our workforce. Our culture of inclusion and cultural competence allows us to achieve our goals and deliver the best possible experience to patients and the communities we serve.

Posting Notes: Not Applicable

Atrium Health is an EOE/AA Employer