ED, Strategy

Executive Director, Strategy, Performance & Growth

About City of Hope, City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. Founded in 1913, City of Hope has grown into one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S., and one of the leading research centers for diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope research has been the basis for numerous breakthrough cancer medicines, as well as human synthetic insulin and monoclonal antibodies.

With an independent, National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center that is ranked top 5 in the nation for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report at its core, City of Hope's uniquely integrated model spans cancer care, research and development, academics and training, and a broad philanthropy program that powers its work. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and cancer treatment centers and outpatient facilities in the Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix areas.

The Executive Director, Strategy, Growth & Performance serves as the senior strategy and growth leader for the entity, responsible for translating enterprise strategic priorities into local market execution while advancing sustainable growth, business development, market expansion, and measurable performance outcomes. This role connects system strategy with entity-level priorities by developing market-informed growth plans, identifying new business and partnership opportunities, evaluating investment priorities, and driving initiatives that expand patient access, strengthen referral channels, improve competitive positioning, and support long-term financial and operational sustainability.

Operating within a hybrid system model, the Executive Director partners with system strategy leadership, entity executives, physician leaders, and operational partners to build a disciplined approach to strategy execution, growth planning, and value realization. The role is accountable for ensuring that local market opportunities, service line expansion, strategic partnerships, affiliations, and business development activities are aligned with enterprise governance and investment standards and are tracked against defined outcomes such as market share growth, referral volume, patient access, service line performance, financial contribution, operational readiness, initiative milestones, and realized strategic value.

Key deliverables include:

• Entity strategic plan and multi-year roadmap
• System/entity strategy alignment deliverable that clearly maps entity priorities, growth initiatives, investment proposals, and execution plans to enterprise strategic priorities, IFSP requirements, and measurable value realization outcomes.
• Entity-level investment proposals and business cases.
• Local market growth plan identifying priority service lines, geographic opportunities, referral channel opportunities, access gaps, competitor dynamics, and growth targets.
• Strategic initiative portfolio and execution plans.
• Strategic partnership, affiliation, and business development pipeline with opportunity stages, sponsors, decision milestones, financial assumptions, risks and expected impact.
• Partnership and affiliation opportunity assessments evaluating strategic fit, market need, financial return, operational readiness, regulatory considerations, and implementation risk.
• Business cases for growth investments, including market rationale, volume assumptions, capital and resource needs, ROI, timeline, dependencies, and value realization measures.
• Service line expansion plans defining target populations, access model, physician alignment, capacity requirements, projected volume growth, and performance metrics.
• Referral and physician alignment strategy to strengthen referral relationships, improve network connectivity, and support market share growth.
• Market access and ambulatory growth roadmap outlining opportunities to expand points of care, improve patient access, and support entity growth objectives.…