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Job Summary

This role serves as the enterprise strategy lead embedded with a designated business unit, operating through a dotted‑line partnership with business unit executive leadership. The Director is accountable for shaping strategy, translating enterprise direction into actionable plans, and supporting disciplined execution—while maintaining alignment with enterprise priorities, standards, and governance through the Enterprise Strategy Office. The role balances deep business‑unit partnership with an enterprise perspective, ensuring strategies are decision‑oriented, integrated across the system, and supported by clear plans, metrics, and execution follow‑through.

Job Duties

• Partner with business unit leaders to frame critical strategic questions and develop clear strategic direction aligned to enterprise priorities. Shape and recommend strategic choices, priorities, and tradeoffs informed by enterprise context, knowledge of the current business environment, and informed perspectives on future state opportunities and pressures.
• Translate approved strategy into multi‑year and annual plans, including priorities, targets, sequencing, and resource implications. Support development and pressure‑testing of business cases and investment theses in partnership with Finance and operational leaders. Ensure alignment with enterprise planning cadence, capital guardrails, and governance.
• Surface cross‑business dependencies, risks, and sequencing challenges. Coordinate with other BU‑aligned Strategy Directors and the ACSO to resolve enterprise‑level tradeoffs. Maintain enterprise perspective while operating in close partnership with BU leadership.
• Define key analytic and insight questions required to inform strategic decisions. Partner with Strategic Insights to translate analysis into decision‑ready options, implications, and risks. Conduct independent future-sensing to stay ahead of environmental opportunities and pressures.
• Provide hands‑on strategic support for a portfolio of enterprise‑critical initiatives within the business unit. Partner with Strategic Initiatives to clarify scope, milestones, and dependencies. Build BU capability through shared tools, templates, and decision frameworks.
• Support routine strategic performance reviews; use performance insights to drive decisions and corrective actions. Signal when strategy adjustment or reprioritization may be required.
• Lead executive strategy and working sessions and cross‑functional forums. Develop clear, concise executive‑ready narratives, decision memos, and presentation materials. Build alignment and momentum from strategy through execution.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

Education

Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 7 years-Related work experience (Required), Minimum of 5 years-Managerial/Supervisory (Required)

Skills

Market Research; Analytical Thinking; Critical Thinking; Business Analysis; Interpersonal Communication; Computer Literacy

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.

EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.