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Posted: 13-May-26
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Internal Number: 95964
Penn State Health - Penn State Health Corporation
Location: US:PA: Hershey
Recruiter Contact: Rebecca L. Stuckey at rstuckey@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
Penn State Health Corporation
Hershey, Pennsylvania
The Opportunity:
The Vice President, Transformation, provides executive leadership for enterprise-wide transformation initiatives across the health system. This role is accountable for designing, governing, and executing complex programs that drive clinical, operational, financial, and digital performance improvements across the academic medical center, medical group, and community hospitals. The Vice President drives measurable results aligned with system success measures and key strategic objectives.
The VP leads the Transformation Office, healthcare engineering, and decision science functions, ensuring standardized metrics, validated data, and advanced operational and financial modeling inform executive decision-making. This role partners closely with physician, nursing, operational, and administrative leaders to implement sustainable change, optimize performance, and advance value-based care initiatives, while maintaining alignment with the organization?s mission, regulatory requirements, and financial objectives.
The VP is responsible for embedding data-driven insights, advanced analytics, and evidence-based operational models into transformation governance, dashboards, and enterprise decision-making forums, ensuring measurable, actionable outcomes across the health system.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in a healthcare transformation, performance improvement or operational strategy role within a complex health system or an academic medical center
- Master?s degree required, MBA, MPH, MHA or a related health care-focused discipline
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide, multi-year transformation initiatives with measurable clinical, operational, and financial outcomes; including governance design, prioritization frameworks.
- Experience establishing or leading transformation offices, PMOs, or performance improvement functions.
- Strong knowledge of value-based care models, including CMS programs, bundled payments, ACOs and risk-based reimbursement structures.
- Advanced experience with data-driven decision-making, including development and use of enterprise KPIs, dashboards, and performance management systems.
WHY PENN STATE HEALTH?
Penn State Health offers exceptional opportunities to learn and grow, exposure to a wide patient population, and the ability to provide individualized, innovative, and specialized care to patients in the community.
Penn State Health offers an exceptional benefits package including medical, dental and vision with no waiting period as well as a Total Rewards Program that highlights a few of the many additional offerings below:
- Be Well with Employee Wellness Programs, and Fitness Discounts (University Fitness Center, Peloton).
- Be Balanced with Generous Paid Time Off, Personal Time, and Paid Parental Leave.
- Be Secured with Retirement, Extended Illness Bank, Life Insurance, and Identity Theft Protection.
- Be Rewarded with Competitive Pay, Tuition Reimbursement, and PAWS UP employee recognition program.
- Be Supported by the HR Solution Center, Learning and Organizational Development and Virtual Benefits Orientation, Employee Exclusive Concierge Service for scheduling.
WHY PENN STATE HEALTH CORPORATION?
There are many ways to make an impact with one of the leading research, teaching, and clinical healthcare systems in the country. Through a combination of operational, corporate, clinical, and nonclinical roles, we are advancing excellence and innovation in health care together as one team. As Penn State Health continues to evolve for the future, we are committed to hiring dedicated employees who are passionate about delivering the best possible support across our entire integrated health system.
Within Penn State Health?s Shared Services Entity, we encourage our employees at every turn to continue their education and advancement. Numerous opportunities are available for professional development and career growth.
YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM. WE?LL TAKE CARE OF YOU. State-of-the-art equipment, endless learning, and a culture of excellence ? that?s Penn State Health. But what makes our healthcare award-winning? That?s all you.
This job posting is a general outline of duties performed and is not to be misconstrued as encompassing all duties performed within the position. Eligibility for shift differential pay based on the terms outlined in company policy or union contract. All individuals (including current employees) selected for a position will undergo a background check appropriate for the position's responsibilities.
Penn State Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected class including disability or veteran status. Penn State Health?s policies and objectives are in direct compliance with all federal and state constitutional provisions, laws, regulations, guidelines, and executive orders that prohibit or outlaw discrimination.
Union: Non Bargained