Vice President, Service Line & Provider Growth Planning

Advocate Aurora Health

Executive responsible for shaping service line and provider growth strategies at Advocate Health. Leading enterprise planning, workforce strategies, and network development to deliver measurable healthcare outcomes.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $152 - $243 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead enterprise-wide service line planning in close partnership with Service Line and Clinical Operations leadership—defining strategic priorities, growth pathways, and access and capacity implications across the system.
Establish a consistent, data-informed service line planning framework that integrates enterprise strategy, market opportunity, clinical capabilities, workforce realities, and division-level execution.
Partner with Division Strategy & Growth leaders to translate enterprise service line strategies into division-specific plans, initiatives, and roadmaps that are integral to the division strategies, plans, and execution.
Ensure service line strategies are aligned with enterprise and division portfolio priorities, capital planning, and performance objectives.
Lead enterprise and division-level clinical workforce planning, ensuring alignment between service line growth strategies, access goals, care models, and provider supply.
Identify current and future provider gaps by specialty, geography, and site of care; translate insights into actionable workforce strategies.
Partner closely with a broad set of enterprise and division leadership to curate the provider pipeline as well develop, negotiate, and implement partnership models.
Establish repeatable planning processes, standards, and analytics that enable proactive workforce decision-making rather than reactive gap-filling.
Lead enterprise and division level provider network growth strategy, including provider acquisition, employment, partnerships, affiliations, and other alignment models.
Define and prioritize provider growth opportunities in coordination with service line and workforce plans, ensuring the right alignment model is deployed for each strategic need.
Collaborate with enterprise and division leaders on practice acquisitions, partnerships, and strategic affiliations.
Ensure consistent enterprise standards and disciplined execution across provider network development efforts, while allowing for division-specific tailoring.
Translate strategy into execution by developing clear, sequenced plans with defined ownership, milestones, interdependencies, and success measures.
Serve as the enterprise integrator across service line strategy, workforce planning, and provider growth—ensuring these disciplines operate as a unified system rather than siloed efforts.
Partner closely with Strategic Analytics to ensure planning is grounded in consistent analytics, market intelligence, and performance insights.
Interlock with Division Strategy & Growth, Strategic Analytics, Diversified Growth, Enterprise Business Development, Managed Health, and other enterprise functions to ensure alignment and value capture.
Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior enterprise, service line, and clinical leaders—bringing a clear point of view, strong analytic grounding, and pragmatic execution focus.
Establish governance, operating rhythms, and decision-making forums that enable transparency, accountability, and timely escalation of tradeoffs.
Drive a culture of collaboration, disciplined planning, and outcomes-oriented execution across enterprise and division stakeholders.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team as applicable, setting clear expectations, standards, and development pathways.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Strategy, Economics, Public Health, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare strategy, growth planning, service line strategy, provider growth, or related enterprise roles within a complex health system or academic medical center.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level service line planning, clinical workforce planning, provider network development, or closely related disciplines.
Proven ability to translate strategy into execution—building actionable plans, operating mechanisms, and governance structures that deliver measurable outcomes.
Experience working effectively with senior clinical, operational, and administrative leaders in a highly matrixed environment.
Strong track record of leading cross-functional initiatives that integrate analytics, strategy, and operational execution.
Experience with provider alignment models (employment, partnerships, affiliations, acquisitions) and their strategic, operational, and financial implications is highly desirable.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program

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Hard Skills & Tools

service line planningclinical workforce planningprovider network developmentstrategic planningdata analysisgovernance structuresoperating mechanismsprovider alignment modelsmarket intelligenceperformance insights

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationstrategic advisingcommunicationaccountabilitydecision-makingteam developmentexecution focuscross-functional leadershipoutcomes-oriented execution