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Clinical Operations Partner

Role overview

Summary

The Clinical Operations Partner role is designed to support clinical and operational leadership at Intermountain Health. It focuses on improving performance and operational efficiency through strategic initiatives and oversight of key performance indicators, while also providing executive assistance to senior leadership.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated progressive experience in a healthcare operations environment.
  • Experience supporting enterprise or regional operations.
  • Proven experience in monitoring and reporting key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
  • Experience facilitating cross-functional work with internal teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

  • Support strategic initiatives that improve performance and operational efficiency.
  • Coordinate complex, cross-functional strategies and partnerships.
  • Monitor, analyze, and report key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Provide high-level executive assistance, including calendar management and meeting preparation.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Leadership
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Organizational Skills
  • Communication
  • Detail Oriented
  • Relationship Building

About the company

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Intermountain Health

  • Hospitals & Health Systems
  • 10,001+
Headquartered in Utah with locations in six primary states and additional operations across the western U.S., Intermountain Health is a nonprofit system of 34 hospitals, 400+ clinics, a medical group of more than 5,100 employed physicians and advanced care providers, a health plan division called Select Health with more than one million members, and other health services. With more than 69,000 caregivers on a mission to help people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is committed to improving community health, and is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare. We strive to be a model health system by taking full clinical and financial accountability for the health of more people, partnering to proactively keep people well, and coordinating and providing the best possible care. At Intermountain, every caregiver helps us fulfill our mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible. Interested in joining our team? Check out our career website and apply today at https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/.

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Job description

Job Description:

The Clinical Operations Partner & Executive Assistant serves as a trusted partner to clinical and operational leadership, supporting strategic initiatives that improve performance, operational efficiency, and value-based outcomes. The role combines clinical operations support with high-level executive assistance, including complex calendar management, executive communications, meeting and presentation preparation, project coordination, and follow-up on leadership priorities. This individual ensures strategic initiatives move forward while providing proactive, highly organized support to senior leadership.

This is a remote position; however, the selected candidate must reside in the state of Utah and live within a reasonable driving distance to attend onsite meetings, leadership events, and other in-person activities as needed.


Preferred candidates with a strong Executive Assistant background, proactive planning, project support and measurement/metric tracking

Job Profile:


This position oversees enterprise and regional operations, performance reporting, and strategic initiatives essential to the success of the business.


The role is responsible for developing, monitoring, and interpreting key performance indicators (KPIs) tied to core operational outcomes such as utilization, throughput, and quality. It provides insights that inform leadership decision-making and identifies opportunities to improve performance across markets. 
 
The Business Operations Partner also coordinates complex, cross-functional strategies, including internal system initiatives and external partnerships.


This role ensures alignment with organizational priorities, regulatory expectations, and contractual obligations while advancing enterprise goals. 
 
Works both strategically and operationally—partnering closely with the Vice President to lead priority initiatives, drive accountability, and sustain performance improvements across the organization. 


Skills

- Leadership and cross-functional coordination 
- Relationship building and stakeholder engagement 
- Strategic problem-solving 
- Data analysis and performance reporting 
- Process improvement 
- Financial management 
- Change management 
- Attention to detail 

Minimum Requirements

·  Demonstrated progressive experience in a healthcare operations environment with increasing responsibility in operational leadership support.

·  Experience supporting enterprise or regional operations, including coordination of complex initiatives and alignment across multiple stakeholders, departments, or care settings.

·  Proven experience in monitoring, analyzing, and reporting key performance indicators (KPIs) at a department, regional, or organizational level, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.

·  Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders across the organization.

·  Experience supporting or leading process improvement initiatives that drive operational efficiency, reduce variation, and align with organizational priorities.

·  Experience facilitating cross-functional work, including coordination of internal teams and external partners (e.g., payer relationships, delegated entities, or vendors).

·  Strong organizational, communication, and execution skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and drive follow-through in a dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in business, healthcare, human resources or related field. Education must be obtained through an
  • accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
  • Demonstrated experience in budget development and management.

Physical Requirements

  • Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
  • Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally
  • communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
  • Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
  • For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Key Bank Tower

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$31.01 - $48.84

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.


Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.


By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment. I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain. Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.


Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.


At Intermountain Health, we use the artificial intelligence ("AI") platform, HiredScore to improve your job application experience. HiredScore helps match your skills and experiences to the best jobs for you. While HiredScore assists in reviewing applications, all final decisions are made by Intermountain personnel to ensure fairness. We protect your privacy and follow strict data protection rules. Your information is safe and used only for recruitment. Thank you for considering a career with us and experiencing our AI-enhanced recruitment process.


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