Director, Strategic Partnership Relations

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Director, Strategic Partnership Relations

LCMC Health Corporate New Orleans, LA

Help Drive the Future of Academic and Health System Collaboration

LCMC Health is seeking a highly collaborative, relationship-focused leader to serve as our Director, Strategic Partnership Relations. This influential role supports the partnership between LCMC Health and our academic affiliates by fostering communication, collaboration, and alignment on key operational and strategic priorities.

As a trusted resource to senior leadership, the Director will connect stakeholders across the health system and academic organizations, facilitate information exchange, identify opportunities for partnership enhancement, and support initiatives related to provider recruitment, transition planning, clinic operations, and organizational development.

This role is ideal for a healthcare professional who thrives on building relationships, coordinating complex initiatives, solving problems, and creating alignment among diverse stakeholders. The Director serves as a liaison and facilitator, helping advance the mission and strategic priorities of both organizations through effective communication, accountability, and partnership development.

What You'll Do

Strategic Partnership & Relationship Management

• Support the ongoing partnership between LCMC Health and academic affiliates through proactive communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and resource to health system, physician group, hospital, and academic leadership teams.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen organizational alignment, enhance operational effectiveness, and improve partnership outcomes.
• Facilitate communication among leadership teams and stakeholders to ensure shared priorities are understood and advanced.
• Assist in resolving barriers and driving accountability for key initiatives and commitments.

Provider Recruitment Management

• Support and track provider recruitment activities from initial planning through onboarding and first day of patient care.
• Coordinate stakeholder communication and monitor recruitment milestones to ensure timely progress.
• Identify and escalate recruitment-related barriers while facilitating solutions across multiple departments.
• Support physician and advanced practice provider transitions, onboarding readiness, and integration efforts.

Leadership Collaboration

• Meet regularly with LCMC Health Corporate, hospital leadership, LCMC Health Physician Group (LHPG), and Tulane leadership teams.
• Support provider recruitment priorities, service line growth planning, operational readiness efforts, and strategic initiatives.
• Facilitate productive discussions and assist leadership teams in advancing collaborative goals and solutions.
• Promote a customer-focused approach to relationship management and stakeholder engagement.

Performance Metrics & Strategic Analysis

• Monitor, analyze, and summarize provider recruitment, onboarding, transition, referral, clinic operations, and operational-readiness metrics.
• Develop reports and executive-level summaries that support service line planning and informed decision-making.
• Identify trends, opportunities, and risks for leadership awareness and action.
• Provide visibility into key initiatives without assuming responsibility for clinic performance outcomes, budget management, or P&L results.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Serve as a key point of coordination among:

• LCMC Health Corporate

• LCMC Health Physician Group

• Hospital leadership teams

• Clinic operations leaders

• Tulane School of Medicine physicians and leadership

• Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)

• Other internal and external stakeholders

• Promote alignment, communication, issue resolution, and follow-through across organizations.

Joint Council Support & Executive Presentations

• Prepare and coordinate agendas, reports, issue logs, dashboards, and trend analyses for LCMC Health-Tulane University Joint Council meetings.

• Attend Joint Council meetings and present updates related to:

• Provider recruitment

• Onboarding and transition planning

• Stakeholder engagement

• Barrier resolution

• Strategic partnership initiatives

• Develop executive-ready presentations and briefing materials for senior leadership discussions.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive healthcare experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Provider relations

• Provider recruitment

• Physician practice administration

• Healthcare operations support

• Service line development

• Healthcare sales

• Project management or coordination

• Healthcare leadership support roles

• Direct clinic management experience is preferred but not required.

Education

• Master's Degree in:
• Healthcare Administration
• Business Administration
• Public Health
• Related healthcare field

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate is a strategic relationship builder with exceptional communication and organizational skills who can influence without authority and successfully navigate complex healthcare environments.

Key competencies include:

• Executive presence and professionalism
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Consultative communication style
• Analytical and strategic thinking
• Stakeholder engagement and alignment
• Project coordination and issue tracking
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Customer service mindset
• Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Creativity and resourcefulness
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills
• Strong computer proficiency

Important Position Information

This position serves in a coordination, liaison, relationship-management, and leadership-support capacity.

The Director, Strategic Partnership Relations:

• Supports provider recruitment and onboarding efforts
• Facilitates stakeholder alignment and communication
• Assists with issue resolution and operational readiness activities
• Supports Joint Council preparation and executive presentations
• Drives partnership collaboration and accountability

WORK SHIFT:

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little "come on in" attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health's culture of everyday extraordinary

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems - it's all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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