Kaufman Hall provides management consulting services and enterprise performance management software that help organizations realize sustained success amid changing market conditions. Since 1985, Kaufman Hall has been a trusted advisor to boards and executive management teams, helping incorporate proven methods into strategic planning and financial management processes and quantify the financial impact of plans to consistently achieve desired goals.
Kaufman Hall provides financial advisory services to clients seeking capital; prepares and implements integrated strategic, financial, and capital plans; designs comprehensive capital allocation processes; and assists in the evaluation, structuring, and negotiation of partnership and divestiture opportunities. Additionally, Kaufman Hall provides sophisticated, integrated, and intuitive software solutions for long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, capital planning, profitability, and cost management on a single platform. Kaufman Hall’s extensive industry expertise and tailored solutions for healthcare, financial institutions, higher education, and other key industries enable clients to take advantage of proven best practices and realize faster time to value.
Kaufman Hall provides a broad range of strategy-related advisory services to support organizational management and decision making in hospitals, health systems, physician organizations and other care providers nationwide, including population health management, physician alignment, consumer/retail pricing, value-based contracting, clinical variation, business restructuring and strategic cost management. In all cases, these services are based on financial analytic rigor attributed as a core element of Kaufman Hall’s reputation.
As part of its strategic and financial planning services, Kaufman Hall has a focused set of services to assist healthcare organizations operationalize mergers and integrations, transform to realize the benefits of system-ness and assess the cultural change necessary to thrive in the new healthcare era. With a commitment to thought leadership, Kaufman Hall is consistently on the cutting edge of exciting, innovative and creative developments in the healthcare industry. As such Kaufman Hall professionals regularly participate in leading healthcare forums; including key industry associations, publications and think tanks across a wide range of healthcare topics and issues.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Merger Integration and Transformation practice is always a half a step ahead of the clients’ needs; designing the “What” and implementing the “How”. The Vice President, Merger Integration and Transformation will be the “on the ground” Kaufman Hall project management lead for up to three, concurrent client projects, depending on size, with some projects spanning a significant time frame. The VP will coordinate, organize, monitor and support all activities across the client organization related to the transformational agenda involving Kaufman Hall, client and other outside advisors as indicated. For each project the VP will collaborate with the client to establish the project management framework, tracking mechanisms and infrastructure necessary to support and/or manage defined transformational initiatives. As part of the project management infrastructure the VP will coordinate with the client to establish protocols for a data analytics central clearing-house in support of the identified initiatives as well as integrating change management and communication activities; essentially the VP will team with the client to develop the project management infrastructure which will serve as “air traffic control” for the transformation efforts.
The Vice President, Merger Integration and Transformation orchestrates and leads all activities associated with Kaufman Hall’s merger integration and transformation services, including:
- Leading and integrating a team of five to six Kaufman Hall professionals, multiple client transformation team members and associated external advisors to ensure the desired near and long term transformation objectives are met
- Effectively communicating progress, risks and plan details to executive leaders (both client and Kaufman Hall) as well as identified performance excellence teams
- Developing enterprise work plans and overseeing initiative-level work plans and timelines
- Interfacing between the various client-specific leadership teams associated with the integration and/or transformation
- Supporting communication plan development and execution
- Coordinating all analytics supporting target setting and improvement planning
- Integrating with Finance, Human Resources and other client departments/functions as needed
- Identifying, organizing and distributing enabling tools in collaboration with client Information & Technology Innovation leaders
- Developing and coordinating education and training support for identified tools and methods
- Tracking, monitoring and reporting of transformation results
- Providing necessary project management support and coordination of improvement teams and initiatives ensuring timely results realization
CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven project manager with ability to manage multiple, complex projects simultaneously; facilitating and/or directing teams
- Knowledge of change management principles and record of application/use
- Ability to design, direct/manage data analytic efforts; comfortable at the summary and detail levels
- Excellent verbal and written communicator; formally and informally
- Ability to transition between strategy and tactics easily; turning strategy in to actions and linking actions to strategies
- Well organized with ability to organize and communicate complex functions/activities
- Comfortable with technology (new and/or proven)
- Passionate about mentoring and growing the next generation of leaders; with an ability to teach rather than tell
- Diplomatic with the ability to interact in tense situations with senior leaders, physicians and Board members
- Values input and perspective from all levels of the organization; looks for the positive contributions from each individual
- Detail-oriented without being detail-focused
- Personable and outgoing; comfortable in any setting
- Confident without being arrogant
- Excellent listener and emotionally intelligent
- Aware of personal strengths and blind spots; knows when to extend and when to ask for assistance
- Open to innovation and exploration; promotes personal growth
- Results oriented, team player
- Demonstrates respect, integrity, stewardship, excellence, collaboration and kindness in all aspects of life
- Likes to have fun and celebrate successes
- Ability to effectively and efficiently identify and remediate project risks and/or issues
- Comfortable working in a dynamic work environment
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Significant (ten (10) years to preferably fifteen (15) years) executive healthcare management responsibility over clinical, operational, physician, cost management and/or financial functional areas and member of executive leadership team
- Project management certification preferred but, not required
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
The ideal candidates will have innate consulting expertise and skills. They will exude a willingness to “roll up one’s shirt sleeves” at any time. They will be self-confident and possess an excellent work ethic. The ideal candidates will demonstrate a deep commitment to all facets involved in providing a successful consulting team based environment focusing on providing:
- Excellent consulting services.
- Consistency in all service deliverables.
- Superb customer service.
Key attributes that will also be reflected in candidate references are as follows:
- Relentless, energetic, self-starter
- Integrity, genuine, straightforward
- Open, honest, trustworthy
- Strong communicator and facilitator
- A professional presence and a “can do” team spirit
- Approachable, outstanding communications with all constituents
- Strong inner self-confidence and mature ego control
- Decisive, innate leadership qualities
- High moral and ethical characteristics
- Diplomatic and friendly
- Flexibility
- Good listener
- People person, visible
- Sense of commitment
- Team player
- Sense of humor
EDUCATION Bachelor’s degree from a top tier university or college required. A Master’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare or Hospital Administration is strongly preferred. Project management certification a plus. ot;lang
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