Assoc. VP, Business Applications at University of Miami

Miami, Florida, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

15 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

15 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Strategic Leadership, Operational Transformation, Change Leadership, Financial Stewardship, Stakeholder Engagement, Innovation, Communication

Industry

Hospitals and Health Care

Description

Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position, please review this tip sheet. CORE JOB SUMMARY The Assoc. VP, Business Applications manages the life cycle planning of key health system business applications through the phases of strategize, architect, select, deploy, operate, evolve, and retire. Some of our application delivery work is managed as products, regardless of whether the customer is internal or external. The Assoc. VP, Business Applications manages the business application team and has specific responsibility for building or configuring, maintaining or enhancing, and eventually decommissioning business applications or products through the life cycle. This team is maintains responsiblity for all UHealth business application products, outside of technology supported by the University of Miami. The Assoc. VP, Business Applications acts as servant-leader for UHealth leaders and report to the UHealth Chief Information Officer. CORE JOB FUNCTIONS 1. Builds strong relationships with stakeholders and clients to ensure satisfaction of product/technology service and gain knowledge of opportunities for improvement, ensuring the highest ROI for the health system. 2. Contributes directly to the strategy, development, and quality of IT Service Management and UHealth IT’s service delivery capability and has exposure to all facets of the IT organization - technologies, projects, strategies, and operations. 3. Acts as an active stakeholder and driver in underlying operations process and infrastructure to direct continuous improvements across the supporting teams to meet existing customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Operating Level Agreements (OLAs), and compliance requirements. 4. Provides leadership, vision and direction to the business applications organization to ensure it will contribute to UHealth achieving its goals. 5. Works with CIO and other UHealth IT leaders to develop overall IT strategy in the context of the business strategy and initiatives. Works with the chief information security officer (CISO) to ensure that UHealth's business application products are effectively secured and that risks are mitigated. 6. Develops productive relationships with business leaders and product managers across UHealth to influence how business applications can enable new sources of value. 7. Defines and enhances methodologies and practices for the business application life cycle management in line with best practice and practical experience of continuous improvement. 8. Ensures that business application processes (including those of external service providers) are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, environmental and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation. 9. Manages business application team, developing their skills and capabilities to meet the needs of UHealth, as well as building on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps. 10. Manages relationships with major vendors and service providers to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization. 11. Conducts regular surveys of stakeholder satisfaction with application products, publish the results and, where necessary, implement action plans to improve satisfaction. Works with stakeholders to accomplish this application product work in a way that improves the business and technical fitness of the application portfolio and minimizes its ongoing support costs. 12. Oversees the assessment of the technical and business fitness of business applications and product portfolio and their associated costs and risks. 13. Facilitates the UHealth business application product governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications and products must support. 14. Oversees benefits realization to ensure the business outcomes are achieved. Oversees the business application development of processes and tools in conjunction with infrastructure and operations to automate the handoff of from project to operations. 15. Ensures internal control oversight and compliance with laws and regulations, safeguarding of assets, compliance with University policies and procedures, reliability of internal and external reporting, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Creates an effective control environment, conducts risk assessment, implements and monitors controls. This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary. CORE QUALIFICATIONS Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required Experience: Minimum 10 years of relevant experience required Certification and Licensing: Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Strategic Leadership: Commitment to the University's core values, mission and vision. Understands the strategic vision and major initiatives to lead and influence across departments to achieve goals and drive strategic initiatives. Operational Transformation: Ability to drive operational efficiency. Change Leadership: Ability to lead organizational change initiatives, fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability. Financial Stewardship: Ensures fiscal responsibility, and optimization of financial performance. Stakeholder Engagement: Engaging and communicating with key stakeholders, building strategic partnerships, and enhancing the university's reputation. Innovation: Drives innovation by encouraging/implementing innovative solutions and driving continuous improvement. Communication: Ability to influence others, articulate strategic vision, and ensure clear and persuasive communication. This is a core job profile description and is not reflective of all duties that may be assigned to a specific position in each individual department. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and primary responsibilities of this core job profile. Specific duties and tasks may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job. The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more. UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law. Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation. The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Responsibilities

The Assoc. VP, Business Applications manages the life cycle planning of key health system business applications and oversees the business application team. This role includes building relationships with stakeholders, ensuring satisfaction, and contributing to IT service management and delivery capabilities.