EyeCare Partners is the nation’s leading provider of clinically integrated eye care. Our national network of over 300 ophthalmologists and 700 optometrists provides a lifetime of care to our patients with a mission to enhance vision, advance eye care and improve lives. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, over 650 ECP-affiliated practice locations provide care in 18 states and 80 markets, providing services that span the eye care continuum. For more information, visit www.eyecare-partners.com.
Chief Information Officer
The Chief Information Officer is a key member of the Executive Team and will have full responsibility for the information technology (IT) strategy, resources, and operations. This leader will create a vision for technology that enables the business strategy and have a material impact on the success of the organization in terms of operational efficiency, productivity, and employee and customer satisfaction.
A key focus of the CIO will be to create an IT roadmap and strategy that enables the business to grow quickly through acquisition as well as organically and continues to enhance the company’s operational strategy. The CIO will be charged with creating a strategy for an ongoing, iterative migration to a modern, scalable, cost-efficient system environment that supports ECP’s business model and can be implemented into new locations quickly and seamlessly. Additionally, the CIO will be expected to work closely with the marketing and operations leadership teams to develop a multi-year plan for differentiated eye care experiences and greater access and connection with the market.
The CIO will need to understand the business of IT and implement strong processes with the goal of delivering applications that reflect the needs of the business and systems that can be easily implemented/scaled across the company and into expanding operations. Ideally, this executive will understand the complexities of a multi-location business and be able to operate successfully in a lean, hands-on, high-growth environment.
This executive will partner with the business leaders to create greater alignment between commercial goals and supporting technology creating innovative solutions for field operations, specifically in leveraging the EMR more effectively, integrating digital solutions, introducing cloud services and better using data and analytics.
The CIO will bring strong communication and collaboration skills and have the ability to manage competing priorities with sound judgment and confidence built on past success. This executive must share the vision for the organization and operate in concert with cross-functional leaders to deliver results.
The Chief Information Officer will have experience in developing a technology strategy for a rapidly growing organization. Experience with a variety of technologies and the ability to introduce patient focused technology platforms that benefit patients, internal teammates and physicians is essential to the success of the role. The new CIO should have the executive presence necessary to operate at the highest levels of influence as well as get into the details of IT, and thrive in an environment that emphasizes speed, agility and efficiency.
Critical Leadership Capabilities
Driving Results
- Develops plans with specific goals and timelines and actively measures progress against the goals.
- Acts to surpass agreed upon goals, continually setting higher goals that are ambitious but realistic for self and team, geared to organizational objectives.
- Focuses on new opportunities that use technology to enable business growth and add value.
Leading People
- Collaborates and openly debates with the team to manage projects, solve problems, discuss challenging issues, or learn more about critical issues as a group.
- Collaborates with each employee to establish clear, challenging performance goals and metrics for the year.
- Designs a performance management process to monitor projects and deliver results that exceed expectations.
- Periodically reviews team progress against plans, focuses attention beyond the project to the full year or more.
Strategic Thinking
- A business person and a technologist; translates broad corporate strategies into clear, specific IT objectives and plans.
- Explains specifically how changes in competitors, patients, and market segments affect the business and brings new technology ideas forward to manage and address market changes.
- Creates IT plans that address both short term and long term needs of the business.
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EyeCare Partners is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
