Vice President, Eastern Area (Finance)
Description
Vitalant is looking for a bold, visionary leader to join our Blood Services Leadership Team as the Vice President, Eastern Area. This is a high-impact leadership role, that will focus on deep community engagement (school systems, business leaders, government officials, hospital leaders, community and church leaders), mobile blood drive success, resource management for both mobile and fixed sites, local facility and fleet oversight, hospital customer engagement and general division leadership. This position works in a highly collaborative manner with the Blood Services functional Vice Presidents, SVP, Chief of Marketing & Donor Services and other leadership throughout the organization to ensure strategic and collection goals are met.
The Impact You'll Make:
As Vice President, you will serve as the senior leader for your designated geographic area, responsible for aligning your division's activities with Vitalant's national strategic goals. You will oversee all aspects of divisional operations, including:
- Directing mobile blood collections to meet production targets
- Leading and developing a high-performing leadership team across multiple locations
- Ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local regulatory requirements
- Monitoring division performance while taking proactive steps to achieve strategic and operational goals
- Overseeing divisional budgeting, cost control, and resource allocation
- Partnering with national support functions and participating in Functional Councils to drive process improvement
- Assisting with contract renewals, business reviews, and customer relations in coordination with Sales and hospital partners
- Translate enterprise strategy into local execution
- Build and lead high-performing teams of senior and mid-level leaders
- Cultivate a culture of accountability, learning, and cross-functional partnership
- Balance operational excellence with innovation and adaptability
- Inspire trust, transparency, and connection across regions and stakeholder groups
In this high-impact leadership role, you'll receive a competitive compensation package including a robust performance-based bonus plan-reflecting your years of experience and the vital influence this position has on our mission and long-term success.
At Vitalant, we don't just support our leaders-we empower them with a Total Rewards package designed to sustain both professional growth and personal well-being, including:
- Comprehensive health benefits - medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Generous paid time off (PTO) and company-paid holidays
- Wellness resources and lifestyle perks including access to exclusive employee discounts and employee assistance programs.
- Leadership development programs and employee resource groups
Requirements
Knowledge/ Education:
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Master's degree preferred
- Ten years progressively responsible operations management experience required. Experience must include Six years senior leadership experience in blood banking, healthcare or relevant operations management
experience
- Must have analytical, statistical, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Able to organize, prioritize, and execute a variable workload and multiple priorities.
- Effective oral and written business communication skills.
- Must have a participative management style, strong team development, coaching skills, and the ability to lead and motivate senior and executive-level managers.
- Ability to work in a team environment and participate as an active member of management.
- Must have proficient computer skills.
- Ability to travel (30% - 50%)
Summary
About Us
Vitalant is one of the nation's largest nonprofit blood and biotherapies healthcare organizations, providing hospitals and patients across the U.S. a safe blood supply, specialized laboratory services, transfusion medicine expertise and world-renowned research. We have a network of 115 donation centers across the U.S. and host approximately 60,000 blood drives annually. Vitalant provides blood and special services to patients in more than 900 hospitals across the U.S. where millions of people depend on blood donations from our generous donors.
Vitalant is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace built on a foundation of respect, integrity, teamwork, and excellence. We create opportunities for employees of all backgrounds to feel valued, seen and heard. We believe this mission drives creativity and innovation, as employees experience an environment conducive to personal growth and career development.
EEO/Disabled/Veterans
Our organization is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. If you need accommodation for any part of the employment process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an e-mail to Careers@vitalant.org to let us know the nature of your request.
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