Enterprise Operational Excellence Strategy
• Develop and lead the multi-year operational excellence roadmap, ensuring strong alignment with the organization’s long-term strategy and annual goals.
• Identify and prioritize value streams and breakthrough initiatives that will deliver impact on quality, safety, access, patient experience, team member engagement and affordability.
Strategy Deployment
• Develop and oversee the system’s strategy deployment process, ensuring that breakthrough goals and annual priorities are clearly defined, aligned and resourced.
• Establish catchall processes to engage leaders across the organization in aligning goals, identifying performance gaps and confirming ownership.
• Establish visual strategy deployment systems and lead regular performance reviews focused on countermeasures, learning and delivery of enterprise outcomes.
Performance Improvement & Breakthrough Achievement
• Oversee the execution of high-impact improvement initiatives using methodologies such as value stream mapping, rapid improvement events, standard work and 3P design.
• Lead cross-functional teams to eliminate waste, improve flow, expand access, enhance reliability, and reduce total cost of care.
• Establish sustainment mechanisms that integrate into daily management – e.g. standard work audits – to ensure operational stability and maintain improvements over time.
Lean Management System & Daily Management
• Implement and oversee a comprehensive lean management system, including tiered daily huddles, leader standard work, visual management, standard work audits and A3 problem solving.
• Coach leaders at all levels in using daily management to sustain operations, surface problems early and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure consistency, rigor and spread of daily management across all hospitals, ambulatory sites and shared services.
Leadership Development & Culture Building
• Develop leaders and staff at all levels in lean thinking, A3 problem solving, daily management and accountability-based leadership practices.
• Model a leadership style focused on respect for people, humility, transparency, and performance discipline.
• Promote psychological safety and continuous learning through frequent Gemba presence, humble inquiry and support for structured experimentation.
Performance Measurement & Results
• Partner with Quality, Finance, HR, Patient Experience, operations and service lines to define aligned system and site-level KPIs tied to breakthrough goals and daily management.
• Monitor progress on systemwide improvement goals and communicate actionable insights on performance, trends, risks and countermeasures to executive leadership.
• Deliver measurable, high-impact improvements in quality, safety, access, patient experience, team member engagement and cost of care.
Required
• Bachelor’s degree
• Demonstrated expertise in lean tools, lean management systems and strategy deployment.
• 10+ years leading complex operations improvement initiatives in multi-site health care operations.
• Demonstrated track record of achieving breakthrough performance results through implementation of large-scale projects and value-added change.
• Proven success leading enterprise-level change across multi-hospital or multi-site organizations.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, coaching and relationship-building skills with executives, physicians, and operational teams.
Preferred
• Master’s degree
• PMP certification
Leadership Competencies
• Strategic systems thinker with enterprise perspective
• Courage to challenge the status quo and lead large-scale change
• Operates with humility, curiosity and respect for people
• Executive presence with the ability to influence without authority
• Skill in coaching and developing others
• Highly data-driven, disciplined and results-oriented
• Must be able to achieve consistently high results through team effort
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, listening and presentation skills
At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:
Team Member Benefits
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Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.
EEO STATEMENT
Atlantic Health, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran
Atlantic Health is at the forefront of medicine, setting standards for quality health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. Headquartered in Morristown, NJ, we are a leading non-profit health care system, powered by a passionate workforce of 24,000 team members dedicated to building healthier communities. Atlantic Health serves more than half the state of New Jersey, including 14 counties and 7.5 million people and provides care for the full continuum of health needs across a wide array of settings, including dozens of outpatient and urgent care locations, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute, Atlantic Health Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Atlantic Visiting Nurse and Atlantic Mobile Health. Our acute care hospitals include:
• Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Atlantic Health CentraState Medical Center, Freehold, NJ
We receive awards and recognitions for our extraordinary care and our supportive workplace culture. Below are just a few of our accolades:
• 100 Best Companies to Work For® - Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine for 16 years
• One of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
• America’s Greatest Workplaces in Health Care: Newsweek
• America’s Greatest Workplace for Women, Gen Z and Inclusion and Diversity: Newsweek
• Best Places to Work in Healthcare – Modern Healthcare
• 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare – Becker’s Healthcare
• Best Employers for Workers over 50 – AARP
• Gold-Level "Well Workplace": Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
• System for Change Award from Practice Greenhealth
