Chief Executive Officer

Highlands Oncology seeks an accomplished, growth-oriented, physician-centric CEO to lead strategic expansion, organizational advancement, and long-term value creation. As the senior non-physician executive, the CEO will partner with the Board, physician shareholders, and physician leaders to set vision, align stakeholders, strengthen performance, and execute through a high-performing leadership team.

Qualified candidates should demonstrate:

• Executive leadership of a complex, multi-site healthcare or physician-practice organization.
• Multi-region or multi-state operations oversight in regulated healthcare markets.
• Full P&L, operating budget, capital planning, and resource-allocation accountability.
• Growth through markets, sites, service lines, partnerships, affiliations, or acquisitions.
• Physician partnership, governance alignment, trust-building, and difficult decision-making.
• Negotiation with hospitals, health systems, payers, vendors, or strategic partners.
• Use of analytics, operating reviews, and leadership teams to drive accountability, quality, compliance, and results.
• Oncology experience is strongly preferred; comparable physician-practice, ambulatory, specialty-care, or healthcare-services leadership may be considered.

The successful candidate will be:

• Strategic, financially sophisticated, and growth-oriented.
• Trusted by physicians and the Board; able to influence without relying on authority.
• Clear, composed, transparent, decisive, and accountable.
• Entrepreneurial yet disciplined in evaluating markets, services, partnerships, and investments.
• Committed to quality, access, ethics, integrity, patient experience, and continuous improvement.

The CEO will partner with the Board and physician leaders to:

• Set long-term strategy, growth priorities, governance expectations, and success measures.
• Align strategy, capital plans, operating goals, budgets, and leadership accountability.
• Provide transparent Board reporting on performance, risks, trends, opportunities, and investments.
• Build trust and alignment around mission, values, goals, enterprise decisions, and tradeoffs.

The CEO will lead growth and capital deployment by:

• Identifying and executing organic and strategic growth opportunities.
• Diversifying revenue through clinical, ancillary, pharmacy, research, imaging, radiation, infusion, value-based care, and related services.
• Developing business cases for sites, services, technology, partnerships, acquisitions, and market entry.
• Strengthening referral, community, hospital, payer, and market relationships.
• Ensuring growth is funded, integrated, operationally sound, and aligned with quality standards.

The CEO will oversee a geographically distributed organization by:

• Leading through empowered executives, consistent standards, and local flexibility.
• Overseeing operations across regions, regulatory environments, payer markets, and labor markets.
• Establishing scalable systems, decision rights, communication rhythms, and accountability.
• Improving capacity, throughput, utilization, reliability, and access.
• Supporting new sites with infrastructure, leadership capacity, compliance, and integration planning.

The CEO will be accountable for financial performance, capital allocation, and resource stewardship by:

• Driving margin, cash flow, balance-sheet strength, and sustainable performance.
• Holding leaders accountable for budgets, forecasts, financial implications, and results.
• Improving volume, productivity, staffing, drug costs, denials, reimbursement, profitability, and ROI.
• Negotiating with payers, hospitals, vendors, health systems, management organizations, and partners.
• Balancing financial discipline with quality, access, and physician partnership.

Success will require credibility with physician shareholders and the ability to lead through trust, influence, and sound governance. The CEO will:

• Serve as a trusted partner to the Board, physician shareholders, and physician leaders.
• Build alignment among physicians, executives, functional leaders, and external partners.
• Communicate issues, options, risks, tradeoffs, and implications clearly.
• Represent Highlands Oncology credibly in its communities and markets.

The CEO will build a scalable, accountable leadership organization by:

• Recruiting, coaching, developing, and retaining…