Executive Director - Business Services

Position Overview

The largest change to Manitoba’s provincial health-care system in a generation is laying the foundation for strategic system realignment and improved patient care. We require a proven executive level, province-wide leader with experience building and implementing shared services to join an integrated senior leadership team and build effective pan-system relationships that drive strategic and sustainable outcomes, enable the work of partner service delivery organizations, provide centralized business functions and provincial health services.

Digital Health focuses on supporting clinical and business systems as the foundation for leveraging electronic data in the delivery of health-care services. Business Services within Digital Health provides the operational planning, implementation, management, adoption, optimization, and sustainment of business and administrative productivity services. It maintains delivery, implementation, ongoing support and adoption of digital health business services, working with the service management support function within Shared Health and its customers.

We have an opportunity for an executive director who will lead Business Services as a member of Digital Health senior management, reporting to the chief information officer. As this role is provincial in nature the work location is flexible and final determination of the work location will be made in consultation with the successful candidate. The executive director has operational oversight of the service area, which provides and maintains systems and solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP), and additional diverse human resources, recruiting, learning management, scheduling, payroll, accounting, financial, supply chain, and billing tools for IT Service Management, communication, productivity and collaboration tools, for office videoconferencing and virtual meetings, and for business process efficiency and administrative services as a shared service provider to the health-care system.

Additionally, the successful candidate will

The successful candidate’s leadership, professionalism, diplomacy, and continuous improvement orientation will be evident as they collaborate to provide excellent customer service and support an integrated province-wide health-care system that provides multiculturally respectful health services delivery.

We would be pleased to share a full job description with interested executive leadership candidates. Requests for more information may be directed to:
Director, Human Resources, Barbara Weselak, CPHR via email to

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