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You need a Vice President of Operations who can turn board goals into workable decisions across clinics, departments, and regional sites.
No postings. No stacks of resumes. No chasing. You interview a short list.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
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What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
- Vice President of Operations
- Senior Vice President of Operations
- Vice President of Ambulatory Operations
- Vice President of Clinic Operations
- Regional Vice President of Operations
- Vice President of Post-Acute Operations
What does an open seat cost you every week?
An open role costs you more than the recruiting fee. Someone covers the work, waits for care, or stops a service. We ask what is falling behind and who is carrying it. Use your own figures to compare the cost of waiting with the cost of hiring.
The seat is costing you every week.
Overtime, diverted patients, a stretched team and a schedule held together by favors.
The posting brought the wrong people.
Applicants arrive, but the person who has done this exact work is employed and not looking.
You are the one chasing.
Screening calls, no-shows and follow-ups land on the desk of someone with a facility to run.
What does this hire really come down to?
This executive leads the operating work around care delivery. During a typical week, they review site budgets, access delays, billing denials, support staffing, referral handoffs, and manager performance. They work with medical directors and finance leaders when a local decision affects both cost and patient access.
We recruit permanent leaders on a contingency basis. No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
Define the problem before opening the search. You may need to bring several clinics under common operating practices, repair uneven site results, improve revenue-cycle follow-through, or settle unclear authority between medical and administrative leaders. Each need calls for different past experience and interview questions.
Ask candidates what they personally decided and owned. Reviewing a regional report is not the same as changing clinic templates, addressing a budget variance, or coaching a site administrator through physician conflict. We look for clear explanations of the data reviewed, people involved, options considered, and result measured.
What do we check before you see anyone?
Confirm prior scope. We ask which locations, service lines, operating leaders, and shared departments they directed. We also ask which decisions stayed with finance, medical leadership, or the chief executive. Review budget ownership. We ask for an example of a department that missed plan, the reports reviewed, and actions taken on labor, supplies, scheduling, or revenue-cycle work.
- Test conflict management with medical directors and administrative leads. We ask how they handled a disagreement about clinic templates, support staffing, access targets, or a process clinicians challenged.
- Discuss electronic medical record reporting. We ask which reports informed quarterly operational reviews, how they checked data quality, and when they involved informatics, finance, or billing leaders.
- Examine growth and consolidation work. We ask what changed for front-desk teams, clinical support staff, referral coordinators, and local managers when sites were added, merged, or redesigned.
- Screen credentials, work history, and knowledge of state-specific licensure mandates and facility safety obligations. Your organization completes its own credentialing and clinical assessment before hiring.
Where do we find them, and why would they move?
Candidates may come from multi-specialty health systems, investor-backed medical groups, regional hospital networks, and post-acute operators. The best pool depends on whether your role covers ambulatory operations, clinic operations, post-acute services, or a wider regional portfolio. People may explore a move when their current authority is narrow, capital decisions stall, or reporting layers stop needed changes.
We ask about each move rather than assigning a motive.
Which mistakes stall the search?
A common mistake is hiring for the size of a previous employer without confirming direct budget, site, and operating accountability. Another is leaving medical director authority undefined, then expecting the new VP to resolve disputes without an escalation path. Others want direct board contact or clearer accountability for site results.
Selecting a spreadsheet-focused leader without asking how they addressed manager turnover, front-desk breakdowns, and clinical support concerns.
How would we run the search for this opening?
List the departments under this VP, direct reports, and decisions retained by clinical, finance, or executive leaders. Choose several outcomes, such as access, denials, site expense, manager retention, or referral completion. Give finalists a hypothetical conflict involving site expense, clinician schedules, and patient access.
Set decision rights
We use that map to screen for comparable authority.
Name first-year work
Identify available baseline data and the leader accountable for each measure.
Interview against tradeoffs
Ask what they would review first, whom they would consult, and what action they would take.
Where this search connects
Executive Leadership: C-Suite & VP
SpecialtyHospitals & Health Systems
SettingAcademic Medical Centers
SettingRural & Critical Access Hospitals
SettingPhysician Groups & Specialty Practices
SettingCEO / Hospital President
Related roleChief Operating Officer (COO)
Related roleChief Financial Officer (CFO)
Related roleService Line Administrator (Cardiovascular, Oncology, Ortho, Neuro)
Related roleAsk us for a current range
No direct SOC occupation matches this role.
No reasonable single SOC match for this brief. Ask us for a current range.
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Should short tenures rule out a candidate?
A short tenure calls for checking whether the executive completed a clinic integration or left unresolved budget and governance disputes. We ask why each move occurred, what the candidate was hired to change, and whether that work was completed. A merger or leadership change may explain a short stay, while repeated unfinished work deserves closer review.
What search timeline should we expect when an incoming executive must assess physician governance, payer contracting bottlenecks, service-line margins, call-center workflows, acquisition integration, referral leakage, coding edits, collection queues, workforce span, supervisor layers, capital approvals, vendor contracts, quality dashboards, market expansion plans, clinical documentation backlogs, procurement controls, claims aging, telehealth scheduling, laboratory interfaces, productivity assumptions, entity governance, lease renewals, rural referral patterns, imaging turnaround, and pharmacy purchasing across dispersed outpatient practices?
Timing depends on location, scope, compensation, and whether the role covers one market or several. Senior candidates often need time to assess reporting lines, board access, relocation, and authority.
How should we respond to a counteroffer?
Ask what caused the candidate to consider leaving before discussing pay. A higher offer may not resolve limited authority, unclear reporting, or a stalled growth plan. Explain the decisions this role can make and the support available.
What are the search fee terms?
This is a permanent contingency search with no upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
Does relocation matter for this role?
It can matter when you need multi-site or sector-specific leadership not available locally. Decide early whether local market knowledge outweighs a broader pool and whether moving support is available for finalists.
What should you send us about this role?
Send us the role, where the person will work and what needs to change with this hire. We will ask about the work, not just the title. Share any license or schedule limits that could rule someone out before we begin the search.
Tell us where site performance breaks down, who owns disputed decisions, and what authority this VP will hold. We will screen for leaders with relevant operating experience.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
Which other positions in this family should you consider?
Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) · Vice President of Physician Services
What do you get at each step of the search?
Our process for every search: calibrate the seat with you, map the market, research the real people, reach out to each one personally, qualify them in live conversation, then hand you a short list with a written brief on each person and support through the offer.
Search Calibration
You get an agreed brief: the work, reporting line, credentials, schedule, and offer you can make.
Market Mapping
You get a search aimed at relevant backgrounds, including people working now who have not applied.
Professional Contact Intelligence
We check appropriate ways to reach the people identified for your search. You do not have to chase them yourself.
Persistent Personalized Outreach
We explain your actual job and follow up with people who may consider a conversation.
Live Candidate Qualification
You see people we have spoken with about the work, interest, and practical fit, not an unread resume pile.
Candidate Intelligence and Process Support
You get a written brief and support through interviews and offer discussions. You make the hiring decision.
What are the replacement terms?
We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement. Ask us to walk through those terms before you sign, so you know how a replacement would work for your opening and who would start it.
What do we not do in a standard permanent search?
We do not bill standard contingency search by the hour or simply repost your job. Temporary coverage is a separate arrangement. Any retainer or different engagement must be agreed, not assumed. Tell us early if you need coverage while the permanent search runs.