Divisional Vice President of Medicine

BluePearl Pet Hospital is seeking a dynamic, collaborative, and influential veterinary medical leader to lead the medical operations strategy for our Wesr Division.

The Divisional Vice President of Medicine (DVPM) oversees and directs clinical quality, medical excellence, team-based care, clinical productivity and efficiency in partnership with the Divisional Vice President of Operations and Divisional People & Organization Business Manager. 

The DVPM will lead and develop group and local hospital medical directors and the Divisional Nursing Partner, ensuring that the development of medical leadership creates a pipeline of talent to further support organizational growth, medical excellence, and high standards of patient safety.  The ideal candidate has a passion for elevating the standard of care, developing and coaching medical leaders, and using critical thinking skill and problem solving to optimize clinical teams while maintaining or enhancing sustainable business performance. 

Eligible candidates should have ten (10)+ years of clinical practice experience as an emergency or board-certified specialty clinician (or similar experience) and five (5)+ years of people leadership experience with oversight of multiple hospitals and/or revenues exceeding $100MM.  The DVPM will report directly to the Vice President of Medicine.

As the Divisional Vice President of Medicine, you will:

• Lives and exemplifies the Five Principles of Mars within self and team.

• Ensures the development of medical leaders and creates a pipeline of talent to support future organizational growth.

• Leads and directs the Medical Directors of assigned region to ensure adherence with organizational objectives in areas involving medical quality, clinician recruitment, retention, and engagement, and ensuring that the hospital is a learning environment supporting the clinical development of clinicians and technicians.

• Directs and plans the medical operations of a defined region to maximize returns on investments and increase productivity, providing leadership and decision-making in matters impacting medical quality, clinical culture and clinical effectiveness. 

• Ensures medical leaders are attentive to the engagement level of associates and drives a positive hospital climate.  

• Partners with the DVPO to effectively communicate and cascade key initiatives impacting medical staff.

• Partners with DVPO to ensure appropriate productivity levels and growth plans for clinicians and hospitals, including maximizing technical teams.

• Interacts with all levels of the organization to manage the business. Regularly interacts with senior executives.

• Actively contributes to the development of practice guidelines and care protocols that lead to the achievement of quality medical and service outlines and cost efficiencies. 

• Maintains current knowledge regarding regional veterinary services market and industry issues which may impact the business.

• Other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree, DVM, and successful completion of 1-year rotating internship required. 

• 10+ years of clinical practice as an Emergency or board-certified Specialty Clinician, with at least 5 years in a leadership role with oversight of multiple hospitals and/or revenues of $15MM+ required. 

Requirements

• Developing Direct Reports- Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each direct report’s career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes direct reports to accept developmental moves; will take direct reports who need work; is a people builder.

• Perspective- Looks toward the broadest possible view of an issue/challenge; has broad-ranging personal and business interests and pursuits; can easily pose future scenarios; can think globally; can discuss multiple aspects and impacts of issues and project them into the future.

• Business Acumen- Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting his/her business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.

• Problem Solving- Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.

• Decision Quality- Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; most of his/her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought out by others for advice and solutions.

Why BluePearl? 

• Our passion is pets. We offer Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our Associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.

• We value your health and well-being as an Associate by providing you with the following: 

  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options 

  • Flexible work schedules 

  • Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans  

• We promote a family-like culture in our hospitals. We are all in this together. We believe in working together to lead the industry by enriching lives through remarkable care for pets.  

BluePearl is committed to a diverse work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.  We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, or affectional preference, or gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.  We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.