President - Beth Israel Deaconess Needham

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to: 

• Champion BID Needham’s values and Service Excellence standards, ensuring every interaction with patients, families, clinicians, staff, and community partners reflects the highest level of compassion, professionalism, and respect. 

• Provide visionary executive leadership in shaping, executing, and continuously refining BID Needham’s strategic plan and operational priorities, ensuring exceptional and consistent quality across all clinical services. 

• Cultivate a culture defined by trust, collaboration, accountability, transparency, innovation, and organizational excellence. 

• Advance BID Needham as a high?reliability organization, driving operational excellence across all care settings, with particular focus on the operating room, emergency department, imaging, and ambulatory services. 

• Deliver superior financial performance through disciplined financial planning, operational improvement, philanthropic growth, and strong relationships with legislators, payors, and external partners. 

• Inspire a collaborative, community?centered care model that reflects the needs and voices of patients, families, employees, physicians, volunteers, and board members. 

• Lead a robust philanthropic strategy that fuels institutional growth, innovation, and long?term sustainability. 

• Build a resilient, agile, and transparent organization capable of adapting to the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. 

• Establish and champion a mentorship and succession?planning framework for physician leaders and medical staff, strengthening a collegial environment and expanding leadership capacity across the enterprise. 

• Engage system and local leaders to drive a cohesive clinical integration strategy, ensuring superior outcomes and cost?effective care for every patient. 

• Provide system?wide leadership in advancing an integrated delivery network that enhances coordination, quality, and access. 

• Build and sustain strategic relationships with community leaders, system executives, state officials, and key stakeholders. 

• Serve as a compelling and influential external representative of BID Needham at the state, regional, and national levels. 

• Strengthen BID Needham’s platform for continuous improvement in quality, safety, patient experience, and engagement, leveraging technology and innovation to elevate care. 

• Enhance operational efficiency and organizational effectiveness, driving ongoing improvements in financial performance. 

• Lead the execution of BID Needham’s 10?year strategic plan, boldly defining future needs and opportunities to support growth, expansion, and long?term institutional success. 

• Prioritize talent recruitment, development, and retention, ensuring BID Needham attracts and sustains exceptional providers and staff. Partner with system leaders to advance clinical integration across the organization. 

• Collaborate with the Board and senior leadership to strengthen a culture of philanthropy that supports strategic priorities. 

• Articulate and reinforce the importance of network affiliation across BILH, cultivating relationships with current and prospective partners. 

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with the senior executive team, system leadership, and medical staff, fostering alignment, engagement, and shared purpose. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree, required. Advanced degree in related management disciplines, such as an MBA, MPH or MD desirable.  

• Prior tenure as President of a community hospital,?demonstrating?significant executive leadership and strategic accountability within an integrated healthcare system, is strongly preferred.?? 

• Track record of exemplary leadership experience resulting in a thorough and broad knowledge of healthcare issues, including value-based care models and health system reimbursement trends.  

• Experience working in an integrated health system, ideally within a competitive marketplace.  

• Proficient in exercise of personal influence, building consensus, providing leadership, with ability to navigate a diverse group of stakeholders, build a network of allies, and interface with state and local regulators, earning and maintaining stakeholder trust and respect.  

• Proven ability to formulate an operational strategy, guide the development of operating plans, and drive performance to achieve or surpass goals. Manage large P&Ls in a complex health care environment with a record of strengthening financial, cost management, and efficiency performance. 

• Track record of recruiting, developing and retaining an exceptional team of senior leaders and clinicians. 

• Demonstrated experience of collaborating and working with advisory and fiduciary boards. Successful track record of establishing trust and cultivating relationships with board members and key stakeholders.

Abilities & Skills: 

Leading Change 

• Articulates and leads next level of community care strategy.  

• Identifies and enlists key influencers to act as change agents, involving them in designing and delivering change to deliver on the BILH long-range strategy and plan, Blueprint 2030.  

• Communicates a compelling business case to the whole organization to gain buy-in for significant change and a consolidated community division approach.  

• Takes important action to set new norms for the organization.  

• Adapts change plans/influence strategies to the organization’s political realities and constraints.  

Leading People 

• Gives ownership to the entire team to deliver on the newly defined strategic objectives.  

• Cultivates and supports talent in order to create a feeling of team among community presidents, boards and direct reports.  

• Passes leadership responsibilities down through the organization, ensuring alignment with the overall strategy and/or direction.  

• Sets up forums or practices to reinforce independent and open communication among team members.  

• Gives the team broader visibility inside the organization including publicly recognizing its accomplishments.  

• Offers team members to other parts of the organization where they can be most useful. 

Collaborating and Influencing 

• Builds confidence and credibility among all the community presidents.  

• Builds partnerships across the enterprise to address organization-wide challenges or opportunities.  

• Creates an environment of shared values where collaboration is expected at all levels.  

• Systematically builds support at multiple levels and across groups to achieve alignment, acknowledging differences in interests.  

• Listens, collaborates and supports local teams to be effective.  

Personal Characteristics:? 

• Visible and accessible leader who engages staff at all levels and where care is being delivered.  

• Ethical and principled with impeccable integrity and values.  

• Effective communicator who seeks to understand and be understood.  

• Open, fair, and transparent in interactions.  

• Decisive with the ability to make choices in ambiguous or uncertain contexts to establish and lead a clear path forward.  

• Aspiration and vision for excellence and the ability to motivate and empower others to the same.  

• Team-oriented leadership style; able to inspire, delegate, cooperate, and hold and be held accountable.  

• Passionate about quality and safety.  

• Inspirational, courageous, genuine, optimistic, and enthusiastic.  

• Fully self-aware with a high degree of emotional intelligence.