System Director Sustainability

The System Director, Sustainability will be responsible for developing, overseeing, and leading the utilities and energy management, sustainability program, and sustainability innovation functions for the CommonSpirit Health (CSH) National Real Estate Services (NRES) team. This role will lead initiatives spanning multiple geographies and services lines within the organization, requiring administration with a unified national budget and delivery program. This will include critical functions of project intake, capital program budget development, aligning stakeholders, initiative approval, program optimization, and reporting by developing and maintaining dash boards that leverage real time data analytics. The System Director will align the NRES Sustainability program with CSH Sustainability organizational goals and objectives, ensuring they support National, Regional, and Market strategies with a focus on innovation and modernization. 

This role will manage resource alignment between CSH NRES, Advocacy/Government Relations, and Supply Chain platforms to support the key strategic and programmatic initiatives in the portfolio. The SD will serve as the NRES point of contact, leading the program teams on broad strategic initiatives with multi-dimensional stakeholders, national, and regional partners.   

The following represents the essential functions and responsibilities of the System Director role:

• Develop and implement a multi-year national program strategy integrating people, processes, and technology into an innovative platform to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce utility consumption.  
• Develop and implement a sustainable platform focused on providing reliable, resilient, redundant utility delivery to critical assets.
• Build and structure teams to effectively work with industry partners to create innovative solutions to current market conditions as well as deliver forward looking solutions which can be implemented on a national scale.
• Structure teams to focus on each program and initiative to maximize success, establish teams for both national programs and strategic initiatives: 
      Sustainability
      Utilities and Energy Management 
      Innovation
      Program Management 
• Establish and maintain the leanest delivery structure and team possible to produce consistent results that will          meet each program goal and objective.  
• Partner with key stakeholders across national services and the regions including – Supply and Service Resource Management, Finance, Clinical Engineering, IT, Clinical – Nursing, and National Clinical Services Teams, to ensure program development consistent with the CSH Climate Action Plan or CSH leadership mandates. 
• Establish policies, procedures, and guidelines for the implementation of multi-site programs, manage a systematic evaluation.
• Report consistently on the program status to leadership and key stakeholders, develop real time dashboards, and standard reports – finances, scope, schedule, and risks. 
• Integrate sustainability standards into all NRES guidelines and services. 
• Ensure proper data collection, analytics and storage within the NRES and CSH Single Source of Truth.
• Participate with NRES in the development and maintenance of technology and project management software solutions to manage the complete programs. Ensure alignment with the NRES project delivery solution.
• Maintain subject matter expertise, leverage this through speaking and supporting other faith based systems as they seek to implement successful system wide programs. Learn from mutual collaboration. 
• Lead by example, serving as a role model for others in the organization by exhibiting CSH’s core values, while recognizing employee accomplishments, communicating with clarity and focusing on results, and communicating the need for a healthy work-life balance.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, or related development background is required. Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in real estate or strategy will be considered valuable.
• 15+ years experience with increasingly significant leadership and management responsibilities.
• Demonstrated success in the planning and implementation of large scale programs with multi-site and multi-state delivery requirements. 
• Demonstrated success in building and implementing multi-faceted delivery strategies for multi-site healthcare systems.
• National project management experience, understanding of the regulatory and jurisdictional realities across multiple markets. 
• Detailed and in-depth understanding of the operations management.
• Extensive experience in developing and leading high performing teams that include internal and external resources and firms.
• Detailed experience with contract and deal negotiations. 
• Experience with approving authorities, jurisdictions, HCAI and other similar regulatory agencies.
• An assertive approach with a collaborative style.
• Proven track record for delivering projects and programs that meet the defined business plan and strategic objectives.
• Entrepreneurial problem solving approach and skills.
• Deep analytical skills to guide core strategic initiatives. 
• Consistent professional behavior in all activities.
• Exceptional MS suite, presentation, and Google suite skills 
• Strong leader with the ability to motivate, teach and guide teams toward meeting the desired objectives.
• PE preferred

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.