Vice President, Corporate Strategy

Vice President, Corporate Strategy

Onsite: Brentwood, TN

Travel: 25% to 50% for site visits and ELT offsite meetings.

Your experience matters 

At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. As a member of the Health Support Center (HSC) team, you'll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members to positively impact our mission of making communities healthier ^®.

More about our team 

The Vice President of Corporate Strategy is the principal strategist within the Enterprise Strategy pillar - responsible for enterprise strategy formulation, long-range planning (3-5-year horizon), competitive positioning, M&A evaluation, and business-line strategy across acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and behavioral health. This role is structurally distinct from execution and transformation: it owns the "what" and "why," not the "how." The VP works in ambiguity, translates market dynamics into portfolio-level decisions, builds the enterprise strategic narrative, and ensures that every major investment thesis is grounded in sector-specific insight.

This role reports to the SVP, Enterprise Strategy and partners closely with the Executive Leadership Team. The VP will lead a small, high-caliber strategy team (Principal Consultants) and serve as the internal counterpart to consultant-led special projects. The role is designed to scale through consultant leverage, not headcount.

How you'll contribute:

Pillar 01 - Corporate Strategy: "What should Lifepoint do, and why?"

• Own enterprise strategy formulation: portfolio analysis, market entry/exit decisions, competitive positioning, and the enterprise strategic thesis.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the 3-5-year Long-Range Plan (LRP) in partnership with Finance and key domain leaders, ensuring it cascades into annual plans and initiative portfolios
• Partner with subject matter experts to support the development of solution sets and initiatives so solve core strategic issues including problem scoping, solution set design, initiative build, opportunity sizing, and high-level roadmap.
• Drive annual strategic planning, ensuring alignment between LRP priorities and in-year execution goals at enterprise and line-of-business levels.
• Lead M&A pipeline evaluation, partnership assessment, and market entry/exit analysis; develop investment theses with rigorous financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Own business-line strategy across acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and behavioral health - ensuring each line has a defensible competitive position and growth thesis.
• Design and facilitate Monthly Business Review (MBR) agenda and enterprise initiative governance, including stage-gate prioritization and go/no-go decisions.
• Develop scenario models under regulatory uncertainty (e.g., OBBA, CMS policy shifts, payer dynamics) to inform board-level decision-making.
• Own the enterprise strategic narrative for ELT, Board, and investor audiences - translating complex analyses into compelling, board-ready presentations.
• Provide strategic oversight of consultant-led special projects: own the hypothesis, manage stakeholder relationships, review all deliverables for strategic coherence, and ensure findings connect to the annual plan and initiative portfolio.
• Serve as the Strategy-to-Transformation handoff authority - charter initiatives, frame the strategic thesis, and formally hand-charted work to the Transformation pillar at go/no-go gates.

Pillar Integration - Cross-Pillar Governance & Coordination

• Partner with Enterprise Transformation to ensure chartered initiatives are properly scoped, sequenced, and resourced before entering the Transformation pipeline.
• Direct Business Intelligence's market and competitive intelligence function to produce the analytical input required for strategic decisions.
• Ensure the enterprise measurement framework (owned by Transformation's Value Realization function) connects back to strategic intent and LRP targets.
• Participate in Air Traffic Control (ATC) governance to ensure field deployment capacity is factored into initiative sequencing.
• Coordinate with the Chief of Staff on board preparation, ELT meeting cadence, and executive communication calendar.

Strategy Team Leadership & Development

• Lead and develop a team of strategy and planning professionals, fostering a high-performance, consulting-grade culture of intellectual rigor and strategic clarity.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier talent with deep healthcare domain expertise and strong analytical capabilities.
• Manage external consultant engagements - setting the strategic frame, defining hypotheses, managing deliverable quality, and ensuring outputs connect to enterprise priorities.
• Build team capabilities in financial modeling, competitive intelligence, strategic communication, and scenario planning.

ROLE BOUNDARIES - WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT

• Not a program management or PMO role: The VP does not manage project timelines, status reports, or delivery tracking. That is the mandate of Enterprise Transformation.
• Not an execution role: The VP stops at the charter and hands to Transformation. Strategy sets direction; Transformation delivers outcomes.
• Not a generalist consulting role: The VP must have deep healthcare sector expertise - provider economics, reimbursement dynamics, regulatory landscape - not just a consulting toolkit.

• Not a chief of staff role: The VP owns an independent strategic mandate with direct enterprise impact, not administrative coordination or executive scheduling

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers: 

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.

• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.

• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.

• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).

• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we're looking for 

Applicants should have a bachelor's degree; MBA or master's in Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Finance, or related field strongly preferred.

Additional Requirements include:

• 15+ years of progressive experience in corporate strategy, healthcare strategy, or management consulting with deep healthcare sector focus.
• 7+ years in healthcare provider strategy or operations leadership roles within multi-site health systems.
• 5+ years at a top-tier management consulting firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain) or equivalent healthcare-focused strategy firm strongly preferred.
• 3+ years directly leading strategy teams and managing consultant engagements.
• Direct experience in M&A evaluation, long-range planning, and board-level strategic communication.
• Multi-site health system experience is strongly preferred; rural healthcare exposure a plus.

EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.