Market Chief Executive Officer

Description

Position Summary:

The Market Chief Executive Officer (MCEO) serves as the senior executive leader for the market, with full accountability for clinical performance, strategic growth, operational excellence, and financial outcomes. As the primary P&L owner, the MCEO is responsible for driving market-wide strategy formulation and execution, ensuring best-in-class patient care, and aligning market operations with the organization's long-term goals.

In close partnership with the Executive Council Practice President and physician leadership, the corporate executive leadership teams and functional leaders, and third-party ancillary services partners, the MCEO leads the market in building scalable systems, expanding services, optimizing operations, and cultivating relationships with strategic partners. This role provides executive leadership to market-level teams, fostering alignment, accountability, and a high-performance culture. The MCEO is responsible for executing near-term objectives and long-range strategies that advance clinical quality, geographic reach, patient satisfaction, employee engagement, and financial sustainability.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Growth Execution

• Formulate, lead, and execute the market’s strategic plan in alignment with corporate growth, clinical, and operational goals.
• Identify and evaluate new business opportunities, including geographic expansion, de novo development, acquisitions, and partnerships with health systems or multi-specialty groups.
• Lead strategic initiatives including service line expansions, organic growth improvement, integration of acquired practices, and entry into adjacent specialties (e.g., medical oncology).
• Create and maintain a 1-year and 3-year rolling strategic development roadmap including net physician growth, ensuring measurable progress against key growth and partnership milestones.
• Ensure on-time, on-budget execution of all expansion, acquisition, and integration initiatives.

Operational Excellence & Clinical Quality

• Provide executive oversight for day-to-day operations, ensuring clinical, administrative, and all ancillary services meet or exceed established quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction standards and targets.
• Lead an effective and collaborative market-level relationship with third party ancillary partners across ASCs, interventional radiology, care management, etc.
• Drive process improvement initiatives to increase staff productivity, operational scalability, and system-wide consistency.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations, as well as internal policies and clinical practice standards.
• Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement across the market.

Financial Management & Accountability

• Serve as the singular P&L owner for the market with responsibility for revenue growth, cost management, and margin optimization across all base business and ancillary service lines.
• Oversee development of market operating and capital budgets; ensure resources are aligned with strategic priorities.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), financial controls, and risk management protocols.
• Identify opportunities to enhance profitability through service line performance, contract optimization, and operational efficiency.

Organizational Development & Leadership

• Develop and execute market talent strategy to attract, retain, and develop top-tier clinical and administrative leadership.
• Build and lead high-performing teams; provide mentorship and accountability for operational leaders.
• Promote an inclusive and collaborative environment that aligns with the organization's mission, values, and vision.
• Evaluate performance at all organizational levels and ensure timely implementation of improvement plans where needed.
• Represent the market at executive forums, contributing to enterprise-level initiatives and innovation efforts.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Healthcare Administration, or related field required; MBA or relevant master’s degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience, including senior-level oversight of healthcare operations, strategic planning, and financial performance.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-site healthcare organizations, ideally including: Specialty physician practices Ambulatory care facilities and ancillaries (e.g., ASCs, radiation centers, imaging centers, specialty pharmacies) Experience with urology operations preferred; oncology or related specialties a plus.
• Proven ability to formulate and execute strategic plans while driving measurable clinical, financial, and operational results.
• Track record of building collaborative leadership teams and fostering physician and health system partnerships.

Knowledge, Competencies & Skills:

• Visionary leadership and strategic thinking.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Data-driven decision-making and operational discipline.
• Strong personal accountability and ownership over results delivery, including how results are collaboratively delivered.
• Change management and team development expertise.
• Deep knowledge of healthcare delivery systems, clinical operations, and compliance.

Direct Reports:

• Regional Directors of Operations.
• Ancillary Service Line Operational leaders.

Travel:

• Frequent local travel within the market to clinical and administrative sites.
• Occasional overnight or national travel as needed.

Physical Requirements for the Job:

• Regularly required to sit and stand for extended periods.
• Involves standing, sitting, walking, bending, stooping, and twisting.
• Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 20 lbs.

Note: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, or qualifications associated with the role. Responsibilities may evolve based on organizational needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer: United Urology Group and its affiliate practices are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

The successful candidate(s) for any UUG position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

Actual compensation offered to candidates is based on work experience, education, skill level, and geographic location. Compensation may vary depending on the state or region in which the position is located, in accordance with applicable laws. Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis until the role is filled. There is no specific application deadline.

Benefits - A Best Place to Work

Competitive salary and benefits packages

In addition to competitive salaries, Chesapeake Urology offers:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• Dependent care flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Voluntary short-term and long-term disability
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401K plan with an employer contribution
• Profit-sharing
• PTO accrual
• Corporate discounts
• Paid holiday
• Most positions fall under our normal business hours, Monday to Friday, so your weekends are free!

More specific information on our salary and benefits is available during your employment interview.