Position Summary

The VP, Policy Strategy provides enterprise leadership on the evolving policy and regulatory landscape across healthcare delivery, payment models, and workforce. This role anticipates change rather than reacting to it — translating complex policy developments into business implications, strategic positioning, and advocacy priorities for the organization. The VP serves as the central liaison for lobbyists, trade associations, and government relations partners, shaping agendas and narratives that align with organizational strategy, growth goals, and operating realities. This leader must be fluent in the pulls and incentives across healthcare ecosystems and able to synthesize these dynamics into enterprise recommendations. The VP will build trusted relationships across clinical, operational, and financial leadership to ensure strategic alignment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Policy Strategy

• Monitor and analyze policy and regulatory developments across federal, state, and commercial landscapes with emphasis on payment models, clinical workforce, scope of practice, quality, reimbursement, and regulatory compliance

• Anticipate policy shifts and emerging trends, forecasting enterprise impact and scenario options

• Translate complex policy change into business implications that are understandable, actionable, and quantified wherever possible

Enterprise Impact & Alignment

• Weigh cross-functional tradeoffs and conflicting incentives (e.g., FFS vs VBC, acute vs post-acute, utilization vs cost, throughput vs access) and synthesize into clear enterprise recommendations

• Facilitate internal alignment across clinical, financial, operational, compliance and field teams

• Partner closely with Finance, Operations and Clinical Leadership to shape growth, pricing, and operating strategies informed by the policy environment

Advocacy & External Influence

• Shape advocacy priorities and external positions; push beyond reactive posture to proactive influence and agenda setting

• Serve as the intelligent client to lobbyists, trade associations, and legal/policy advisors — setting goals, driving clarity, and holding partners accountable for outcomes

• Represent or support representation of the organization with regulators, legislators, trade groups, etc.

Thought Leadership

• Develop thought leadership and positioning that elevates the organization’s credibility with policymakers, payers, and partners

• Craft clear narratives that frame policy issues through the lens of patient impact, clinician experience, economic value, and system performance

Governance & Internal Education

• Establish internal processes to educate executives on policy issues, scenarios, risks, and opportunities

• Build playbooks for how the organization evaluates and prioritizes policy positions

• Support executive and board discussions with structured policy briefings

Values

• Collaboration: Demonstrates the ability to work well with others to accomplish a goal and get the work done; takes opinions of others into consideration; includes others in the decision-making process.

• Intellectually Curiosity: Demonstrates a genuine interest in learning new things and wants to know the reason “why” behind the way things are done.

• Passionate: Demonstrates a genuine enthusiasm for and excitement about the work; gets others excited about work or projects they're involved in and working on.

• Persistence: Demonstrates the ability to “keep at it” even when obstacles or challenges are present; returns to the work at hand after a change of course.

• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrates the ability to look at the big picture and proactively develop a plan of action.

• Being Visionary: Demonstrates the ability to see, articulate and share the future of the organization in ways that engage and motivate those around them with a clear vision and plan for the future.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex, ambiguous, and conflicting policy signals into clear recommendations

• Experience working with or within government, trade associations, payers, or advocacy organizations

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Health Policy, Public Policy, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Economics, or related field

• 10+ years of experience across policy, health economics, government affairs, payer strategy, regulatory strategy, or related fields

• Deep understanding of healthcare delivery and reimbursement ecosystems; familiarity with both acute and post-acute environments strongly preferred