VP of Operations

Company Description

Heart & Vascular Partners LLC (“HVP” or the “Company”) is a leading, national management services organization built exclusively to support independent cardiology and vascular practices and their physician partners. HVP was founded by clinicians, for clinicians, to provide specialized supported services to meet the needs of cardiovascular care, including managed care contracting, facility development and operations, revenue cycle management, and marketing to both patients and referral partners.

HVP serves its partners through a national and scaled service delivery platform. The Company remains active in expanding its impact through the leading practices in the markets it targets for investment. Bringing together the most innovative, successful, independent cardiovascular clinicians across the country delivers unique insight, scale, and acceleration of realizing the potential value of each practice for its community, partners, and team members.

Summary

The Vice President of Operations is responsible for driving organic growth at HVP partner practices. The VP will seek to understand and realize outpatient opportunities emerging for independent, outpatient cardiovascular care – both on an individual practice level and across HVP’s national portfolio. The VP will work closely to influence physicians and their clinical teams towards expanding care delivered to existing patients while designing and managing new patient referral marketing programs.

HVP’s value creation for its physician partners is largely dependent on the ability to accelerate growth in both volume (referral market expansion penetration) and improved patient outcomes. This is a role with critical responsibilities and points of coordination with HVP partner practices (physicians and non-clinical teammates), third party service providers, and other colleagues on the HVP management team.

Essential Responsibilities

Organic Growth Strategies

1. Create a portfolio of prioritized growth initiatives, including service line development and clinical workflow improvements in order to optimize and expand care delivery capabilities within each of the MSO’s practices.
2. Lead the development of initiative pro formas to rationalize and support resource (human or financial) deployment for key initiatives – track initiative performance v. plan.
3. Develop and report performance data regularly to reinforce successes and pinpoint opportunities for improvement at a practice and physician level.

1. Support practice growth and succession planning through identifying and cultivating relationships with cardiovascular clinicians in targeted markets and sub-specialties.
2. Complement and manage retained search projects for new physician recruitment.
3. Support the onboarding and accelerated ramp of new physicians to HVP partner practices.

1. Support M&A initiatives through identifying incremental growth opportunities per targeted practice and market; accelerate and amplify value creation post-transaction by building and integrating organic growth plans.
2. Work with a variety of OEM and service providers across HVP platform to support implementation of new service lines or clinical offerings.
3. Serve as a member of HVP’s management team, including regular participation and contributions to strategic planning, budgeting, and organizational development processes at a corporate level.

Essential Skills

1. Strategic thinking to deliver growth and competitive advantage in a variety of healthcare markets.
2. Marketing and brand acumen; understanding of patient referral dynamics and influences.
3. Specialty-specific understanding of practice growth levers for multi-disciplinary CV practices.
4. Communication and presence, especially with physicians, with ability to develop relationships easily.
5. Experience and ability to relate with local business operators, facilitating execution of growth initiatives.
6. Ability to be detail-oriented and multitask across several simultaneous projects.
7. Business acumen and comfort with the complexity of physician practice operations.
8. Ability to make prudent and effective decisions, on your feet, quickly and clearly.

Education And Experience

1. At least ten (10) years in healthcare operations, with direct exposure to physicians.
2. Demonstrated experience in physician practice management, preferably with independent groups, or partnership transactions with physicians.
3. Strong preference for experience in cardiology or vascular surgery; understanding of the portfolio of cardiovascular indications and outpatient care modalities available.
4. Bachelor degree in Finance, Business Administration; MBA a plus.

Supervisory Responsibility: Manage local practice administrative teams, responsibility to local physician boards.

Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability occasionally to lift files, office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds. This position is primarily a desk position, requiring sitting longer hours at the computer typing.

Days/Hours
This is a full-time position, the schedule of which is determined by the Supervisor. Can work varying or longer schedules, if needs require.

Dress Attire Required: Determined by MSO management.

Travel: Local and national travel will be required; a minimum of 2 days a month expected.

Other Duties: As assigned.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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