Cedars-Sinai

Lead development and presentation of strategy and business plans and coordinate cross-functional teams to implement and monitor plans. | Bachelor's degree with 5 years or Master's with 3 years in strategy or business development, expertise in data analysis, financial modeling, and healthcare market dynamics. | Manager, Strategic Planning & Business Development (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Los Angeles, CA): Lead the day-to-day development, facilitation, and presentation of comprehensive strategy and business plans for Cedars-Sinai Health System stakeholders to guide enterprise decisions. Facilitate cross-functional planning teams, including Health System leadership, clinical departments, and the Medical Network. Develop sophisticated business plans by identifying, retrieving, and analyzing data, developing models and assumptions to support decisions and recommendations on strategic and business opportunities of large scope and impact to the organization. Utilize quantitative and qualitative data from internal and external sources to inform planning initiatives. Create and design new strategic and business analysis approaches. Conduct comprehensive market assessments, including demand forecasts, competitor analyses, and risk assessments, and key market trends affecting the Health System's positioning and growth opportunities. Support transaction work by assessing potential physician group and hospital affiliations and partnerships, and other new venture opportunities, including conducting due diligence and developing recommendations to inform transaction decisions. Collaborate with Health System staff and leadership to transform business plans into actionable implementation plans. Support monitoring of implemented strategies and reviews performance against established targets. Collaborate with operational leadership to evaluate operational requirements for Health System growth initiatives, including program development, new services, and technology implementations. Include facility planning, staffing requirements, capital needs, and capacity analyses. Develop detailed financial analyses, including income statements, cash flow analysis, and balance sheets. Develop economic valuations using standard acceptable methodologies to inform strategic decision-making. Deliver consulting and project management support for Health System leadership, clinical departments, and the Medical Network. Lead project teams and coordinate cross-functional working groups. Manage Strategy staff on assigned projects, and provide project assignment, scope definition, review, and feedback on deliverables to ensure accuracy, quality, and consistency across initiatives. Function as a cross-functional leader/member of regional operations teams, providing guidance and expertise on business development, reviewing business assessments, and overseeing associate/analyst activities. May supervise 1-2 associates in the future. Telecommuting permitted pursuant to company policy.   Minimum requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Economics, Healthcare Administration, Statistics, or related field, plus five (5) years of experience as a Strategy Associate, Business Development, Strategy Consultant, or related occupation.   Alternate Education and Experience: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Economics, Healthcare Administration, Statistics, or related field, plus three (3) years of experience as a Strategy Associate, Business Development, Strategy Consultant, or related occupation.   Must have experience with the following: conducting research, analyzing and interpreting complex data sets, and applying critical thinking to derive key insights, demonstrate problem solving, and develop proposed strategic recommendations in response to important organizational and strategic questions; defining and preparing comprehensive market and trend assessments/analyses that include demand forecasts, competitor analyses, risk assessments, and the research, monitoring, evaluation of key market trends; creating and designing new strategic and business analysis approaches; leading the development of complex business plans by identifying, retrieving, and analyzing data, and developing models and assumptions to support decisions and recommendations on strategic and business opportunities of large scope and impact to the organization; utilizing quantitative and qualitative data from internal and external sources to inform the business plans; developing detailed financial analyses, including income statements, cash flow analysis, and balance sheets; facilitating and presenting project deliverables, including strategy and business plans, guiding strategic and business decisions, and achieving consensus and actionable outcomes, including leading or facilitating cross-functional project groups (Health System leadership, clinical departments, and the Medical Network); management of projects and workstreams, including development of project work plans and managing 2-4 initiatives at any given time; overseeing specific staff on project-related basis, including the provision of project assignment, scope, review and feedback on deliverables to ensure accuracy, quality and consistency; leading cross-functional work teams, including working with Health System staff and leadership to convert strategy and business plans into implementation plans; leading evaluation of operational needs for Health System growth initiates (program development, new services, and technology) in collaboration with operations leadership, including facility planning, staffing requirements, capital needs, and capacity analyses; hospital, clinic, or medical group operations, and local healthcare market dynamics (competitor analysis, demand assessment, and payer trend).   Salary: $135,096 – $235,539 per year   To Apply: Any interested applicant may click on the APPLY NOW button above to apply for this position.  Job Req. 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Lead evaluation and optimization of clinical products to ensure value and cost savings across the health system. | Bachelor's degree with preferred Master's and 8+ years in healthcare supply chain or clinical operations with leadership experience. | The Director, Supply Chain Value Analysis leads the evaluation, selection, and optimization of clinical products, medical devices, and purchased services to ensure they deliver clinical, financial, and operational value to the health system. This role oversees product review governance, partners closely with physicians and clinicians, and collaborates with supply chain sourcing and finance teams. The director drives cost savings, standardization, and quality improvement initiatives that support organizational goals. The Director, Supply Chain Value Analysis leads a team responsible for evaluating clinical products, technologies, and supplies to determine clinical, financial, and operational value across the health system. This transformation role will evolve a matrixed team structure to fully leverage our shared service across multiple clinical service lines. Initially focused on high value physician preference items, the role will drive value by mobilizing clinical teams to drive standardization of clinical practice. The Director will report directly to the health system VP/Chief Supplier Chain Officer and will work very closely with the shared service strategic sourcing and purchasing team. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: Leads the systemwide value analysis function by directing enterprise processes for product evaluation, technology review, and clinical request assessment, supporting harmonized decision‑making across service lines and care settings in alignment with executive strategy and governance. Oversees product evaluations, technology reviews, and clinical request assessments. • Ensures value analysis recommendations incorporate clinical evidence, financial impact, product performance, patient safety, patient experience, EPS impact, and operational considerations, enabling informed, data‑driven decisions by executive and clinical leadership. • Leads and governs enterprise-wide value analysis committees, coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders and physicians to promote alignment, transparency, and shared accountability for decisions across service lines and care settings. • Partners with supply chain, finance, clinical leadership, and executives to influence enterprise sourcing and contracting strategies, supporting vendor alignment, product rationalization, and cost optimization across clinical and non‑clinical categories. • Develops and oversees standardized value analysis methodologies, including cost‑benefit models, total cost of ownership analyses, business cases, and post‑implementation evaluations, to support enterprise financial targets and performance monitoring. • Drives enterprise product standardization and rationalization initiatives through collaborative engagement with clinical and operational leaders, supporting systemwide value optimization while respecting clinical autonomy and governance structures. • Ensures new product introductions meet set standards for patient experience, quality, safety, and compliance requirements. • Engages and influences physicians and clinical leaders across multiple care settings to support product transitions, utilization alignment, and enterprise value objectives through data, evidence, and consensus‑building. • Tracks, validates, and reports value analysis outcomes, including savings, utilization trends, and compliance metrics, providing summarized insights to executive leadership to support enterprise financial performance evaluation. • Oversees value analysis governance documentation, including committee charters, meeting minutes, decision logs, and audit records, to ensure transparency, traceability, and adherence to approved governance processes. • Leads enterprise‑level change management efforts related to product decisions and value initiatives by partnering with operational, clinical, and executive leaders to support adoption, minimize disruption, and sustain outcomes across care settings. • Plans, builds, and continuously improves the enterprise value analysis function, including team development, process optimization, and capability maturity, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and executive priorities. Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents. Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.