Uw Health

Director, Growth and Integration

Uw Health$120K — $150K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or Health Administration required
  • Master's Degree in Business or Health Administration preferred
  • 5 years of experience in business development, management consulting, or healthcare strategy required
  • 5 years experience with integrated health systems preferred
  • Significant experience with mergers and acquisitions activities is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic growth initiatives across Wisconsin and Illinois
  • Evaluate and develop business cases for growth opportunities
  • Guide mergers and acquisitions activities
  • Oversee partnership integration efforts
  • Expand high-priority clinical programs to enhance service lines
  • Collaborate with executive teams and healthcare professionals to promote organizational goals.

Benefits

  • Health and dental insurance
  • Paid time off and two-week paid parental leave
  • Retirement plans
  • Adoption assistance
  • Flexibility in schedules for work-life balance
  • Tuition benefits for professional growth
  • Access to employee wellbeing resources
  • Referral bonuses for successful job placement referrals.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Work Schedule:
This is a full time position, scheduled Monday through Friday with core business hours between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The role is hybrid, with a regular need to work onsite in Madison, WI to support organizational priorities. Off hours availability may be required.

In this highly visible leadership role, you will lead strategic growth initiatives across Wisconsin and Illinois, identifying new opportunities to expand access to world-class care while strengthening partnerships that advance UW Health's mission. This position combines healthcare strategy, business development, partnership growth, and market expansion, to help drive the future of our integrated health system.

We are seeking a Director, Growth and Integration to:
  • Collaborate with executive leaders, physicians, finance, analytics, and operations teams.
  • Evaluate growth opportunities, develop business cases, guide mergers and acquisitions activities, and oversee partnership integration efforts.
  • Play a key role in expanding high-priority clinical programs such as pediatric specialties, neurosciences, transplant, oncology, and other strategic service lines while positioning UW Health as the preferred destination for patients and healthcare partners across the region.


Ideal Candidate:
  • Accomplished strategist and relationship-builder
  • Experience in business development, healthcare strategy, management consulting, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, or growth leadership.
  • Influential communicator who thrives in executive settings, can confidently represent UW Health externally, and has a proven ability to translate strategic opportunities into measurable organizational results.

At UW Health, you will have:
  • An excellent benefits package, including health and dental insurance, paid time off, retirement plans, two-week paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Options for a variety of schedules and shifts that offer flexibility and allow for work-life balance.
  • Access to great resources through the UW Health Employee Wellbeing Department that supports your emotional, financial, and physical well-being.
  • Tuition benefits eligibility - UW Health invests in your professional growth by helping pay for coursework associated with career advancement.
  • The opportunity to earn a referral bonus for referring friends, former colleagues or others to apply for open, posted positions.


Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration or Health Administration. Required
  • Master's Degree in Business or Health Administration. Preferred


Work Experience
  • 5 years of experience in entrepreneurial, business development, management consulting, mergers and acquisitions, healthcare strategy or related efforts in start-up to large organization environments. Required
  • 5 years of experience with an integrated health system with multiple markets Preferred


Job Description

UW Hospital and Clinics Benefits

About Uw Health

UW Health University Hospital is a 515-bed academic regional referral center with 127 outpatient clinics, located on the western edge of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's campus in Madison, Wisconsin. It is an American College of Surgeons designated Level I adult and pediatric trauma center, one of only two in Wisconsin. UW Health University Hospital has seven intensive care units, pediatric, neonatal, cardiac, cardiothoracic, burn, neurosurgery). UW Health University Hospital was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the 16th best hospital in the United States and the #1 hospital in Wisconsin in the publication's 2021-2022 Best Hospitals Honor Roll, earning national rankings in 10 adult and 6 pediatric specialties. Additionally, UW Health University Hospital was ranked as the 22nd best hospital in the United States and #84th Best Hospitals in the world by Newsweek in 2022. UW Health describes itself as "the integrated health system of the University of Wisconsin–Madison." It is the primary teaching affiliate of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. It is also the primary teaching affiliate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy, and is a teaching affiliate of Edgewood College's Henry Predolin School of Nursing. UW Health University Hospital is home to the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, one of 40 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. UW Health also operates the American Family Children's Hospital, a 110-bed pediatric hospital located adjacent to University Hospital, as well as UW Health at the American Center, a 59-bed hospital and emergency room located on the Northeast Side of Madison. Additionally, UW Health operates a network of outpatient clinics at over 80 sites throughout southern and central Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and has partnerships with UnityPoint Meriter Hospital in Madison, Beloit Hospital in Beloit, Wisconsin, and Swedish American Hospital in Rockford, Illinois. UW Health also has an affiliated insurance company, Quartz Health Solutions, Inc., operated in partnership with UnityPoint Health and Gundersen Health System.
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