Advocate Health Care

Area Vice President Support Services NC/GA Division

Advocate Health Care$75K — $125K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business or Healthcare Administration, or related field
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) issued by a State Board of Accountancy
  • 8+ years experience in a large healthcare environment in a management role
  • Experience leading a large and highly matrixed team
  • Strong people management and communication skills
  • Expert knowledge in facilities and vendor management

Responsibilities

  • Set and execute a multi-year strategic roadmap for support services
  • Translate enterprise strategies into divisional plans
  • Run divisional operating cadence and drive accountability
  • Align stakeholders to resolve competing priorities
  • Standardize processes while enabling local customization
  • Own divisional performance outcomes and lead corrective action
  • Partner with Finance on budgeting and resource planning
  • Lead operational excellence initiatives
  • Oversee vendor performance and manage escalations
  • Ensure regulatory readiness and coordinate audit responses
  • Develop and coach site leaders

Benefits

  • Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards including benefits and well-being programs
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, disability)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care
  • Family benefits including adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match
  • Educational Assistance Program
Full Job Description
Department:

12501 Regional Non Enterprise Corporate - Operations

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

M-F

Pay Range:
$75.40 - $120.65

Major Responsibilities:

  • Set and execute a multi-year strategic roadmap for Hospitality and Support Services that aligns with enterprise clinical, financial, regulatory, and growth priorities. Lead division-wide support services operations across multiple sites, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient service delivery.
  • Translate enterprise strategies, standards, and programs into executable divisional plans with clear sequencing and sustainment.
  • Run the divisional operating cadence (KPIs, governance, escalations), driving accountability across a matrix of facility and enterprise partners.
  • Align stakeholders (clinical, operations, finance, HR, quality, infection prevention, supply chain, IT) to resolve competing priorities and remove barriers-often without direct authority.
  • Standardize core processes and reduce performance variation across sites while enabling appropriate local customization.
  • Own divisional performance outcomes (quality, patient/teammate experience, safety, responsiveness, productivity) and lead corrective action when targets are missed.
  • Partner with Finance to manage budgets, productivity, and resource planning; build business cases and deliver cost improvements without sacrificing quality.
  • Lead operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives that improve throughput support, turnaround times, and service reliability.
  • Oversee vendor/service partner performance within the division, coordinating with enterprise contract owners and managing escalations and performance plans.
  • Ensure regulatory readiness and risk mitigation for support services; coordinate audit responses and remediation across sites.
  • Develop and coach site leaders through direct and dotted-line influence, strengthening capability, engagement, and succession.
  • Represent the division in enterprise councils, elevating local needs and ensuring divisional alignment with system direction.


Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) issued by a State Board of Accountancy


Education Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business or Healthcare Administration, or related field.


Experience Required:
  • 8+ year's experience in a large healthcare environment in a management role. Experience leading a large and highly matrixed team


Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

  • Ability to lead a large team
  • Strong people management skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills and team building skills
  • Strong proficiency in computer word processing, scheduling and accounting spreadsheets.
  • Ability to lead in a highly matrixed complex organization.
  • Expert knowledge in facilities and vendor management


Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
  • This position requires travel; therefore, it will be exposed to weather and road conditions.
  • Operates all the equipment necessary to perform the job.
  • Exposed to a normal office environment.


Preferred Job Requirements

Preferred Education
  • Master's Degree in related field


This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • 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


Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
Learn more about Advocate Health Care
Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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