Job Type: Permanent

Southcoast Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, Enterprise Business Systems.

Southcoast Health is a not-for-profit,community-based health system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

The Southcoast Health system includes three hospitals — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River (founded in 1885), St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford (founded in 1884) and Tobey Hospital in Wareham (founded in 1938). These hospitals merged on June 9, 1996 to form Southcoast Hospitals Group and operate under a single hospital license, with a total of 815 beds. Southcoast Health now also includes Southcoast Behavioral Health in Dartmouth. Southcoast serves more than 719,000 residents in 33 communities, covering more than 900 square miles.

In addition to its hospitals and a physician network of more than 450 providers, Southcoast has more than 55 service locations across the South Coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This includes more than 40 physician practices as well as urgent care centers, a Visiting Nurse Association, the Centers for Cancer Care, outpatient surgery centers, and numerous ancillary facilities.

Director, Enterprise Business Systems Job Overview

The Director, Enterprise Business Systems at Southcoast Health is a highly visible position that will collaborate with business stakeholders in human resources, supply chain and finance. This position will set strategic direction and help users understand “the art of possible” with Peoplesoft. ERP optimization is a top executive priority for Southcoast Health and this leader will leverage significant capital investment that is already earmarked for optimization. There is a unique opportunity to quickly grow a bespoke team, as new positions are funded and ready to hire.

The Director, Enterprise Business Systems will mature business processes and increase utilization. He/she will actively participate in governance and will work to advance analytics maturity. Under the general direction of the Senior Vice President/CIO for Southcoast Health System, the Director, Enterprise Business Systems performs a wide variety of duties including planning, directing, and evaluating staff in implementing Enterprise Resource Planning software. He/she is responsible for working with departmental leaders to identify and/or implement improved work processes and increased efficiencies.

The Director, Enterprise Business Systems establishes and enforces standard methods for evaluating solutions to define end user requirements and organize the projects necessary to select, code, test and install a wide variety of programs.

The Director, Enterprise Business Systems will review work in progress to insure completeness, accuracy and adherence to standards. He/she works in close collaboration and cooperation with other Directors throughout the organization.

Qualifications

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business or a related field preferred

Experience:

  • 3+ years of experience in healthcare
  • 5+ years of experience managing major projects
  • 5+ years of IT management experience
  • Intermediate mathematical skills; basic statistical analysis skills
  • Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

  • Experience with process modeling, work redesign, and ROI initiatives
  • 5+ years experience working with Oracle PeopleSoft FSCM and HCM
  • Kronos experience for timekeeping and workforce scheduling highly desirable
Please view the position whitepaper here for more information about Southcoast Health, the job, and the community.

Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. 

If you have questions about this position, please email Jocelyn Clarke.

Moffitt Cancer Center has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Manager, Laboratory Systems.

Moffitt Cancer Center is a Top 10 cancer hospital dedicated to one lifesaving mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

Moffitt, the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, employs more than 7,000 team members. It is recognized for scientific excellence, multidisciplinary research, and robust training and education. Moffitt’s staff includes some of the world’s best oncology physicians, surgeons, researchers, nurses, and healthcare professionals.

The Moffitt Medical Group (MMG) is Florida’s largest multidisciplinary medical group practice that is dedicated to cancer care. The MMG, based at Moffitt Cancer Center, also provides services at other hospitals and clinics throughout the state of Florida and beyond.

Moffitt Cancer Center has partnered with Advent Health to open a new 28,000 square-foot facility located in the Healing Plaza on the campus of AdventHealth Wesley Chapel in Pasco County, Florida.

Additionally, Moffitt Cancer Center and AdventHealth launched their first collaborative cancer clinical trial in Central Florida as the first part of a broad partnership between the organizations to expand cancer treatment and research in Central Florida.

Manager, Laboratory Information Systems Job Overview

Moffitt Cancer Center is in the midst of an organization- wide strategic transformation journey called “Impact 2028” driving advancements in three main focus areas: personalized care continuum, digital care & discovery accelerator, and market expansion. Led by a visionary new CEO, Dr. Patrick Hwu from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Moffitt is making significant investments into achieving this ambitious journey.   

The Chief Digital Innovation Officer, Dr. Edmondo Robinson, is building a team of innovators who will design and implement new digital technology solutions in the areas of business operations, clinical care, research, and consumerism that further drive success of the organization.   

The Chief Information Officer, Elizabeth Lindsay-Wood, has added 90 new positions to the IT team along with several Directors who are maturing governance, scientific computing, enterprise architecture, and other capabilities. There is strong support for investments in laboratory technology across Moffitt and leaders view it as a critical component for their overall strategic growth in precision medicine. 

Qualifications

Moffitt Cancer Center seeks a Manager, Laboratory Information Systems with extensive experience supporting laboratory applications in a multi-site healthcare environment using advanced technology.   

To be successful, the Manager needs to thrive in a fast-paced, high volume environment and exhibit a high level of confidence with independent department management.  

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in laboratory medical technology, information technology, or other healthcare discipline 

Required Qualifications:

  • Minimum three years of laboratory IT systems experience with three years of leadership as supervisor or above  
  • Significant and successful experience with implementation of laboratory IT systems in a multi-site healthcare setting  

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Previous management experience leading a team of technology professionals 
  • Experience with Cerner PathNet, PowerPath, and/or LabVantage  
  • Certified Scrum Master and/or ITIL certification  
  • Experience with molecular pathology, precision medicine, and digital pathology  
  • Experience with data integration and laboratory instrumentation 
  • Strong understanding of networks, servers, and storage  
  • Experience with new construction projects  
Please view the position whitepaper here for more information about Moffitt, the job, and the community.

Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. 

If you have questions about this position, please email Jocelyn Clarke.

Froedtert Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Vice President – Chief Data & Analytics Officer.

Froedtert Health, headquartered in Milwaukee, is a regional, integrated health care organization providing a comprehensive range of health-related services, including hospitals and health centers, home care, laboratory, health insurance, employer health services, and workplace clinics, and digital health solutions.

Under the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin brand, Froedtert Health partners with the Medical College of Wisconsin, eastern Wisconsin’s only adult academic medical center, to provide consumers a choice that is unique in the region: an interconnected academic health network where care is provided system-wide with an academic medicine approach.

The mission of the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network is to advance the health of the communities it serves through exceptional care enhanced by innovation and discovery. The health network operates eastern Wisconsin’s only academic medical center and adult Level I Trauma Center at Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, an internationally recognized training and research center engaged in thousands of clinical trials and studies.

Reflecting steadily increasing demand for care, the health network has grown from 11 to nearly 40 clinical sites over the past decade and the workforce has expanded by 75% to nearly 13,000 full-time staff.

The Froedtert & MCW health network, which includes eight hospitals, nearly 2,500 physicians, and more than 45 health centers and clinics, draws patients from throughout the Midwest and the nation. It is one of the largest health systems in Wisconsin. In its most recent fiscal year, outpatient visits were nearly 1.2 million, inpatient admissions to its three hospitals were 52,807 and visits to its network physicians totaled 947,136.

Vice President – Chief Data & Analytics Officer

This position is a phenomenal opportunity to join Froedtert Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin as the VP Chief Data & Analytics Officer (CDAO) leading data and analytics strategy and operations.

The VP Chief Data & Analytics Officer leads the integration of data and analytics efforts for the enterprise health network and affiliates and is a business strategist who understands the flow of information, its context, and how it links across the enterprise to derive value within and for the business.

He/She will be responsible for enterprise data and analytics processes and engineering, decision making, and governance.

Significant progress has been made advancing data and analytics including:

  • Setting a strategic direction
  • Maturing data governance
  • Forming a Center of Excellence

The CDAO will work to further advance data literacy and self-service capabilities to enable leaders across Froedtert Health and MCW to make data driven decisions to advance strategic initiatives and improve patient care

Qualifications

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Master’s degree in informatics, business or health administration, analytics, engineering, quality, computer science, statistics, social science

Experience:

  • 15+ years of experience in analytics leadership or comparable experience
  • 10+ years of healthcare provider organization leadership experience, academic experience preferred
  • 5+ years of progressive leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, operating and influencing effectively across the organization and within complex contexts
  • Experience in integrating complex, cross corporate processes and information strategies, and/or designing strategic metrics and scorecards
  • Experience leading large scale transformation and improvement initiatives
  • Strategy and management consulting experience desirable

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

  • Advanced business acumen and politically savvy skills working across business lines at senior levels to influence and effect change to achieve common goals
  • Ability to effectively drive business, culture and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment
  • Information strategy skills including strategic technology planning and execution, policy development and maintenance
  • Ability to develop a framework for information and analytics governance as well as the ability to sell it and embed it within all levels of the organization
  • Proven data literacy including the ability to describe business use cases, data sources and management concepts and analytics approaches 
  • Performance improvement, quality and change management skills in a healthcare setting
  • Advanced analytics skills with outstanding problem solving abilities using analytics methods
  • Proven record of effective leadership including the ability to balance team and individual responsibilities; building teams and consensus and getting things done through others not directly under his/her supervision
  • All senior leaders are expected to have strong skills in interpersonal interaction, public speaking, knowledge of budgets and healthcare finance, and high integrity, good judgment, attention to detail and teamwork

Kirby Partners exclusively represents this opportunity. Interviews will be virtual.

If you have questions please email Bryan Kirby.

Moffitt Cancer Center has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Chief Information Security Officer.

Moffitt Cancer Center is a Top 10 cancer hospital dedicated to one lifesaving mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

Moffitt, the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, employs more than 7,000 team members. It is recognized for scientific excellence, multidisciplinary research, and robust training and education. Moffitt’s staff includes some of the world’s best oncology physicians, surgeons, researchers, nurses, and healthcare professionals.

The Moffitt Medical Group (MMG) is Florida’s largest multidisciplinary medical group practice that is dedicated to cancer care. The MMG, based at Moffitt Cancer Center, also provides services at other hospitals and clinics throughout the state of Florida and beyond.

Moffitt Cancer Center has partnered with Advent Health to open a new 28,000 square-foot facility located in the Healing Plaza on the campus of AdventHealth Wesley Chapel in Pasco County, Florida.

Additionally, Moffitt Cancer Center and AdventHealth launched their first collaborative cancer clinical trial in Central Florida as the first part of a broad partnership between the organizations to expand cancer treatment and research in Central Florida.

Chief Information Security Officer Job Overview

The Chief Information Security Officer is a high-profile position that will provide leadership over enterprise information security management across patient care and research. As part of the IT leadership team, the CISO reports to the CIO and will interface with executive leaders in the organization including research. The CISO will lead a strong team of approximately 15 individuals and be the security “thought leader” and strategist for the organization.

The CISO is responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise information security management program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected. The CISO is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets compliance and regulatory requirements, and aligns with and supports the risk posture of the enterprise. He/she will proactively work with business units and IT functional areas to implement practices that meet defined policies and standards for information security.

The CISO serves as the process owner of all assurance activities related to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of patient, employee and corporate information in compliance with the organization’s information security policies. A key element of this role is working with executive management to determine acceptable levels of risk for the organization. He/she must be highly knowledgeable about the business environment and ensure that information systems are maintained in a fully functional, secure mode. Additionally, the CISO will serve as an internal consultant to organizational leadership regarding cybersecurity awareness and education.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • At least 4 years in a CISO/Director level role providing strategic leadership and operation oversight for an enterprise information security management program
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Certified CISO (CCISO)
  • Knowledge and understanding of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, including Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Payment Card Industry/ Data Security Standard (PCI)
  • Demonstrated expertise in maturing security awareness

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or other similar credentials

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters.  If you have questions about this position, please email Bryan Kirby.

The MENTOR Network has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Director, Clinical Applications.

The MENTOR Network is a national network of local health and human services providers offering an array of residential and community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges, as well as their families; and to
elders in need of support.

The MENTOR Network’s core values—Integrity, Respect, Inclusion & Growth—and the behaviors that define them, guide how they interact with each other and how they approach their work. They strive to support their ~32,000 employees serving ~30,000 individuals in 37 states. As an organization of people serving people, positive and productive relationships is vital to the work they do.

Senior Director, Clinical Applications Job Overview

The MENTOR Network Senior Director, Clinical Applications, will collaborate with senior leaders, directors and stakeholders to guide the development, implementation, and sustainment of clinical and non-clinical applications and programs across MENTOR’s operating groups.

The MENTOR Network provides a number of clinical programs to residential and nonresidential individuals and families. These programs include residential programs for individuals with complex medical needs, early intervention programs for children diagnosed with autism, and behavioral therapies for individuals with traumatic or other brain injuries.

They are looking for an individual that understands the benefits of information technology for clinicians and caregivers that improve the lives of these individuals. This highly-visible position directs and manages the strategic planning, development, implementation, administration and maintenance of a portfolio of software systems and solutions, both custom developed and commercial off-the-shelf, that help deliver on the MENTOR’s strategic mission and plans.

The MENTOR Network is in a growth mode and this person will address the need to develop and grow enabling systems and innovative technology to support this growth. Additionally, a successful candidate will work closely with MENTOR’s strategic planning organization and the chief clinical officer to expand offerings and focus on future clinical partnerships, while reinventing the structures and processes of how reimbursement occurs as a recognized influencer of clinical outcomes and social determinants of health in served populations.
Reporting to the enterprise CIO, this Senior Director sets organizational vision and strategy, and determines how technology can best serve the clinical needs of the operating groups.

Qualifications

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university required. Masters degree desired.

Experience:

  • Related clinical experience in home health, long-term care, and related services.  Experience with the populations MENTOR services is a plus.
  • Management experience in complex environments that include both custom-developed and commercial-off-the-shelf solutions in support of multiple operating groups and functions.
  • Ability to articulate a strategy and implementation approach in a manner that aligns executives across the organization especially as it relates to governing, aggregating, and maintaining clinical applications.
  • A key understanding of interfaces and getting the most data out of engines are highly desirable.

Other:

  • Candidates who are highly motivated and have “for-profit” healthcare and value-based care experience are highly desired. 
  • A background of extensive healthcare applications management with physician groups, behavior health, and extended care services is highly desired.
  • A high comfort level bringing technology to clinicians will also make the final candidate successful.

Note: 

  • This position can be remote, though occasional travel will be required to The MENTOR Network’s Boston-area headquarters.

Kirby Partners exclusively represents this opportunity. Interviews will be virtual.

If you have questions please email Steve Bennett.

El Camino Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Assistant Vice President/CISO.

El Camino Health provides a personalized healthcare experience at two non-profit acute care hospitals in Los Gatos and Mountain View and at primary care, multi-specialty care, and urgent care locations across Santa Clara County in California.

For nearly sixty years, the organization has grown to meet the needs of individuals and communities it serves. Bringing together the best in new technology and advanced medicine, the network of nationally recognized physicians and care teams deliver high-quality, compassionate care. Key medical specialties include heart and vascular, cancer and lifestyle medicine.

Assistant Vice President/CISO Job Overview

Assistant Vice President/CISO establishes and maintains the enterprise Security vision, strategy and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected.

The Assistant Vice President serves in the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and is responsible for all IT security aspects of the organization’s information technology and systems, including policies, standards, and oversight of the security program and security operations management of El Camino Hospital.

This Assistant Vice President oversees a team of 4-5 security professionals and reports to the CIO.

The Assistant Vice President will serve a variety of roles including internal consultant, educator, security cheerleader, trusted advisor, and will be the “go-to person” for security questions within the organization.

The selected candidate will show a history of continually questioning how improvements can be made, and will exhibit exemplary relationship building and customer service abilities.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Fifteen years of information technology experience including 5 years of management experience with solid background in the development and execution of an enterprise wide information security program
  • Five years of people management experience including hiring, coaching, and developing internal staff members and managing external resources to achieve goals and deliverables
  • Demonstrated understanding of overall organizational operations and how work is accomplished between departments and divisions, and its implications for all impacted stakeholders, including technology resources and infrastructure requirements
  • Proven ability to lead and influence the organization’s leaders to support efforts and implementation of strategic initiatives that impact the organization’s performance, systems, processes and structure
  • High degree of executive presence

Desired:

  • Master’s degree
  • A healthcare technology background (strongly preferred)
  • Security certifications

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters.  If you have questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett.

Aspirus has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, System Business Intelligence & Analytics.

Aspirus is a non-profit, community-directed health system based in Wausau, Wisconsin. Its 8,700 employees are focused on improving the health and well-being of people throughout Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.

Aspirus serves communities through four hospitals in Upper Michigan and six hospitals in Wisconsin, more than 50 clinics, home health and hospice care, pharmacies, critical care and air-medical transport, medical goods, nursing homes and a broad network of physicians. Of note, Aspirus just announced that Aspirus Health and Ascension have signed an agreement to transfer from Ascension to Aspirus ownership of seven hospitals, 21 physician clinics, and air and ground medical transport services located in north and central Wisconsin.

Aspirus has been recognized by IBM Watson Health as a Top 15 Health System for three consecutive years in its annual studies identifying the top-performing health systems in the country.

Director, System Business Intelligence & Analytics Job Overview

Reporting to the Senior Vice President – Chief Strategy Officer, the Director, System Business Intelligence & Analytics will serve as the change agent, constructing and implementing the vision for transforming data into actionable insights, and applying modern data science methods to business challenges.

This strategic role leads the business intelligence, reporting and data engineering functions, and is responsible for developing and implementing core data strategies and evangelizing a culture of data-driven decision-making.

The Director, System Business Intelligence & Analytics oversees the management, architecture, and strategy of Aspirus’ service BI platform and is charged with enhancing organizational business acumen through robust reporting and self-service capabilities.This role ensures data integrity, accuracy, and governance to support the growing needs of Aspirus.

Additionally, the Director will drive efforts to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and enhance quality through report automation and predictive/prescriptive analytics.

Qualifications

Aspirus seeks a dynamic leader with an outstanding combination of business acumen, inquisitiveness and detailed analytics skills. To be successful, the Director, Business Intelligence needs to be an exceptional communicator, who is comfortable and effective partnering with senior executives.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required.
  • Master’s Degree highly desired.

Experience:

  • 5+ years of health care analytics experience.
  • 7+ years of leading and developing a Business Intelligence/Data Science team.
  • Experience developing and implementing a Business Intelligence vision and strategy, and building team capabilities.
  • Experience identifying and implementing best practices driving automation and machine learning capabilities.
  • Familiarity with Electronic Medical Records (Epic preferred) associated tools
  • Experience and comfortable interacting with senior executives

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Bryan Kirby

Moffitt Cancer Center has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Manager, Enterprise Imaging Systems (and Ancillary Support).

“Fixing healthcare is hard. Curing cancer is harder. At Moffitt Cancer Center, we think and act differently, matching the courage of our patients with the courage to boldly innovate. 

We are inspired to wake up every day, solve big problems, take on the biggest challenges, and push the frontier further in cancer research and treatment. We are forging a digital future to bring change to how we tackle this difficult disease. 

Moffitt has become one of the world’s first cancer centers with a dedicated machine learning department, which will accelerate cancer research by translating powerful tools from the computer to the bedside. 

For the second year in a row, Moffitt has been named one of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems in the country. 

And for multiple years running, Moffitt has earned its place on Computerworld magazine’s list of 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology. Our employees are among the top-skilled IT experts in the Tampa Bay Area and partner with world-class physicians, scientists, and researchers to develop innovative technologies that support pioneering advances and lifesaving patient care. 

We won’t stop working to give everyone the options they need to #BeCourageous in the face of cancer.”

Manager, Enterprise Imaging Systems (and Ancillary Support) Position Overview

Moffitt Cancer Center is in the midst of an organization- wide strategic transformation journey called “Impact 2028” driving advancements in three main focus areas: personalized care continuum, digital care & discovery accelerator, and market expansion. 

Led by a visionary new CEO, Dr. Patrick Hwu from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Moffitt is making significant investments into achieving this ambitious journey.  

The Chief Digital Innovation Officer, Dr. Edmondo Robinson, is building a team of innovators who will design and implement new digital technology solutions in the areas of business operations, clinical care, research, and consumerism that further drive success of the organization. 

The Chief Information Officer has added 90 new positions to the IT team along with several Directors who are maturing governance, scientific computing, enterprise architecture, and other capabilities. 

The Enterprise Imaging Systems team, as part of the Clinical Systems Support under the directorship of Diana Sharkey, currently supports laboratory services, imaging services and radiation oncology, as well as cardio and cardiopulmonary, employee health EMR, and endoscopy, and will be growing with the addition of new hospitals and satellite clinics. 

Qualifications

Moffitt Cancer Center seeks a Manager, Enterprise Imaging Systems (and Ancillary Support) with an enterprise imaging/radiation oncology background with project management experience. To be successful, the Manager needs to thrive in a fast-paced high-volume environment and exhibit flexibility and versatility. 

Education: 

  • Bachelor’s degree required 
  • Master’s degree preferred  

Required Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years of experience implementing and managing Enterprise Imaging systems or Radiation Oncology Systems
  • 3+ years of leadership experience as a supervisor, team lead, manager or above 
  • ITIL certification, Agile methodology experience 
  • Project management and/or experience with new construction projects
  • Transition/change management experience 

Preferred Qualification: 

  • 5+ years of healthcare IT leadership 
  • Experience planning, implementing, and managing PACS and associated systems (transcription, 3D reconstruction, analytics) in multi-hospital and multi-site health systems
  • Experience managing imaging infrastructure to include teleradiology; telepathology a plus
  • Knowledge of radiology and radiation oncology department workflow
  • Experience with Cerner Millennium a plus; knowledge of RIS systems to include ordering, resulting, and charging
  • Understanding of system integration and standards (es: HL7, DICOM, etc.)
  • Knowledge of regulatory requirements related to imaging and imaging systems
  • Team building and team development experience

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Margaret Cowan.

 

Vidant Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics.

Vidant Health is a mission-driven health care system that serves more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties in Eastern North Carolina. As one of the most progressive not-for-profit health care systems, Vidant Health’s system of care includes the following:

  • Vidant Medical Center – a level I trauma center and the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine
  • Eight community hospitals
  • Vidant Medical Group – primary care and specialty services
  • Vidant Home Health & Hospice
  • Vidant Wellness centers
  • Vidant Health Foundation

Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics Job Overview

The Director, Enterprise Data and Analytics develops the vision, strategy and provides operational leadership for Vidant Health’s data and analytics program.

As a highly visible and impactful role reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Director fosters collaborative partnerships with technology, clinical and business teams across the organization to understand and deliver on the broad information needs necessary to support Vidant’s strategic objectives and operational imperatives.

Through routine, direct engagement with senior clinical and administrative leadership, the Director’s team supports the development of actionable insights and provides a critical linkage between the strategies of both analytics and the organization to achieve breakthrough performance for all Vidant Health stakeholders.

The Director develops and drives the roadmap for the data and analytics program with the overarching goal to transform and modernize Vidant’s analytics strategy, and to provide solutions that empower stakeholders to quickly answer questions and gain insights. The roadmap will include plans for reporting and visualizations as well as the appropriate underlying data architecture, governance, analytics, and technologies.

The Director is accountable for leading the continuous development of advanced analytics capabilities, service delivery, and uncovering drivers of business and clinical operations and performance. The Director strives to identify opportunities to eliminate duplication of effort and streamline the way our stakeholders consume data and information in a way that establishes a new framework of data governance standards for the organization.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 5+ year’s experience in an analytics leadership/management role
  • Strong passion for a data driven culture; embraces a federated model for enterprise analytics
  • 3+ years of healthcare experience
  • Solid technology leadership skills
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Familiarity with data governance and security/privacy compliance including clinical research
  • Experience with data access tools such as: SQL, SAS, R, or Python
  • Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau

Preferred:

  • Master’s degree

The Director may elect to live in surrounding areas, including Raleigh, but will be on-site part of the time.

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters.  If you have questions about this position, please email Bryan Kirby

Moffitt Cancer Center has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director of Scientific Computing.

Moffitt Cancer Center is a Top 10 cancer hospital that is dedicated dedicated to one lifesaving mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

Moffitt, the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, employs more than 7,000 team members. It is recognized for scientific excellence, multidisciplinary research, and robust training and education. Moffitt’s staff includes some of the world’s best oncology physicians, surgeons, researchers, nurses, and healthcare professionals.

The Moffitt Medical Group (MMG) is Florida’s largest multidisciplinary medical group practice that is dedicated to cancer care. The MMG, based at Moffitt Cancer Center, also provides services at other hospitals and clinics throughout the state of Florida and beyond.

Director of Scientific Computing Job Overview

With the incredible growth of Moffitt Cancer Center, and the new strategic plan, Impact 2028, Moffitt leadership is investing heavily in the Information Technology division to rapidly accelerate maturity and position the organization for the future. Moffitt’s strategic plan is heavily dependent on information technology; one of three pillars is the Digital Care/Discovery Accelerator led by the new Chief Digital Innovation Officer. In addition to the data organization under the direction of the Chief Data Officer, the CDIO also has responsibility for digital innovation, and the Information Technology organization under the leadership of the Chief Information Officer. IT is a core enabler to the digital strategy and will participate in the design, development and implementation of the digital plan. In order to ensure the core functions of IT are positioned to support a rapidly growing organization and achieve the ambitions of the strategic plan, Moffitt is investing nearly $10 million dollars and recruiting over 90 new team members in IT demonstrating the organization’s commitment to technology excellence.

The IT department needs a solid foundation, ensuring the right resources, processes and technologies are in place driving maturity and building strong business partnership across the organization. This high-profile position serves as an important advisor to the Cancer Center’s leadership team and will contribute to the formation and execution of the Moffitt technology vision.

The Director of Scientific Computing position provides the opportunity to be at the intersection of computer science, genomics, and systems and computational biology to ensure the computing architecture keeps up with the rate of innovation in the nationally recognized research institute. Most importantly, the Director of Scientific Computing will define a vision of innovation that delivers values value and solves the problems and meets the needs of high-performance computing and data resources.

With high visibility within the organization, this individual will have the opportunity to develop a strategic plan, and design technology roadmaps for a variety of areas such as HPC capacity, and virtualized research environments, among other things.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees
  • 10+ years supporting research computing needs
  • Academic or healthcare experience
  • 3+ years of leadership experience
  • Experience in creating and applying technologies to solve research data challenges
  • Knowledge of large-scale biological data and methods of management
  • Experience with high performance computing

Preferred:

  • Ph.D.

 

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Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters.  If you have questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett.