Vice President Human Resources

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Vice President Human Resources 

Job Summary and Qualifications

As the Vice President of Human Resources (HRVP) for Graduate Medical Education (GME), you will serve as the strategic HR leader supporting the nation’s largest GME program, spanning 82 hospitals and 6,000 residents across HCA Healthcare. In this highly matrixed, enterprise-facing role, you will work in close partnership with the President of GME, division leadership, and hospital HR teams to create an exceptional academic and employment experience for residents, fellows, and GME operational leaders.

You will be responsible for building and sustaining a workplace culture that reflects academic collaboration, strong relationships, operational excellence, and leadership accountability. This includes providing strategic HR leadership, stabilizing and developing GME leadership teams, improving operational integration with hospital HR partners, and directly influencing enterprise-wide talent initiatives for GME.

This role will be onsite at the Health Park office in Brentwood, TN.

What You Will Do in This Role:

Strategic HR Leadership

• Serve as the key HR partner to the President of GME, functioning as an integrated member of the GME executive team—not merely as a support service.
• Lead strategic workforce planning and people initiatives for a highly academic, complex service line supporting 6,000+ residents and multiple leadership teams across 82 hospitals.
• Partner with physician recruitment, service lines, and division/hospital leaders to align the resident pipeline with long-term physician workforce needs.

Resident & GME Program Support

• Oversee HR support for all resident employee relations, onboarding, investigations, performance, and compliance needs.
• Support academic-program operations (faculty interactions, evaluation processes, progression requirements).
• Drive strategies that strengthen resident retention into HCA facilities upon graduation.

Hospital & Enterprise Integration

• Strengthen the partnership between GME HR and hospital HR teams so residents receive consistent, proactive support.
• Reduce reactive escalations by building shared accountability, structured communication, and HR rounding culture within facilities.
• Collaborate with COEs (Benefits, Labor Relations) on unique resident requirements and risk mitigation strategies.
• Support union-avoidance awareness and proactive culture-building at the facility level.

Executive Influence & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Regularly partner and communicate with hospital CEOs, division Presidents, and facility HRVPs on high-risk issues.
• Provide thought leadership, influence decision-making, and challenge appropriately within executive settings.
• Serve as a visible culture leader and relationship-builder in a highly academic environment.

Travel

Less than 20%; varies by quarter

What You Should Have for This Role:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Master’s degree preferred

Experience

• 10+ years of relevant HR leadership experience
• Strong background in:
• • Hospital HR operations
  • Enterprise-level or matrixed environment
  • Experience with physicians, academic medical environments, or GME preferred but not required if enterprise matrix experience is strong.

Certifications

• PHR/SPHR preferred

Benefits

HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Human Resources Group empowers our people to grow and give purpose to the HCA Healthcare culture. We deliver our Human Resource model in three sectors: HR Business Partners, HR Shared Operations and HR Centers of Excellence. HR Business Partner teams are critical to the success of our HR delivery model. We drive performance to achieve successful results to better care for our patients, communities and each other.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Vice President Human Resources opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.