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Organization:
SHSO-Sutter Health System Office-ValleyPosition Overview:
Serves as a senior strategic advisor and thought partner to senior operational leaders, enabling business outcomes through integrated, data-informed people strategies. Operates in a consultative capacity, translating enterprise strategy into talent, engagement, and organization solutions that drive measurable impact across complex healthcare environments.Partners closely with senior operational leaders to shape people strategies that strengthen culture, patient outcomes, and workforce effectiveness, while aligning with financial and operational priorities. Drives strategic influence, anticipates workforce needs through proactive planning, leverages insights to align systems and talent initiatives to deliver meaningful results at the system and local levels, demonstrating strong strategic mindset and operational excellence.
Plays a critical role in advancing Sutter Health’s human resource (HR) transformation by ensuring enterprise strategies are effectively applied within entity settings. As a trusted advisor, this role partners closely with operational leaders and key partners across human resources to elevate leadership capability, align talent solutions, strengthen engagement, drive labor outcomes, and lead change across dynamic, highly regulated environments, with a focus on adoption, sustainability, and long-term impact.
Job Description:
This position will support System Home Office. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of health insurance plans, including Medicare Advantage, along with familiarity with graduate medical education (GME) programs and medical school graduates
Must live within the footprint of Sacramento or Emeryville. Hyrbid expectation is an estimated 12 days per month onsite.
EDUCATION:
Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma
Bachelor’s degree
TYPICAL EXPERIENCE:
10 years recent relevant experience.
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
Progressive HR experience, including senior HR business partner or HR leadership roles.
Demonstrated success partnering with senior operational leaders in complex, matrixed environments.
Experience in organizational effectiveness, engagement, workforce planning, leadership development, talent management, organization design / effectiveness, and change leadership.
Strong background collaborating with HR COEs in an enterprise or shared-services HR model.
Experience operating at a consultative, influence-based level without direct employee relations ownership.
Experience shaping proactive workforce and labor strategies to prevent escalation, reduce risk, and drive operational stability.
Experience leveraging HR data, metrics, and analytics to measure business outcomes and inform executive decision-making.
Working knowledge of state employment and labor environment sufficient for executive advisement (not case execution).
Expertise in organization design, succession planning, engagement strategy, and leadership
development.
Expertise in leveraging data/insights to drive meaningful outcomes.
Possess business / financial acumen.
Knowledge of external labor, industry, and market trends to inform competitive people strategies.
Expertise in change management governance and guiding leaders through complex organizational transitions.
Executive-level presence with the ability to influence without authority.
Strategic thinker with strong clinical acumen.
Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable guidance for leaders.
Enterprise mindset balanced with sensitivity to entity-specific operational realities.
Highly collaborative, consultative, and relationship-driven.
Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across multiple HR disciplines and enterprise initiatives.
Job Shift:
DaysSchedule:
Full TimeDays of the Week:
Monday - FridayWeekend Requirements:
As NeededBenefits:
YesUnions:
NoPosition Status:
ExemptWeekly Hours:
40Employee Status:
RegularSutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.
Pay Range is $181,875.20 to $291,012.80 / annual salaryThe posted pay range is based on the position's primary work location. Candidates who reside and work outside of that location may be subject to a different pay range based on their work location. Candidate starting salaries consider multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health’s comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience in lieu of the degree
- 10 years of recent relevant experience
- Progressive HR experience, including senior HR business partner or HR leadership roles
- Experience partnering with senior operational leaders in complex, matrixed environments
- Experience in organizational effectiveness, engagement, workforce planning, leadership development, talent management, organization design, and change leadership
- Experience collaborating with HR Centers of Excellence in an enterprise or shared-services HR model
- Experience operating in a consultative, influence-based role without direct employee relations ownership
- Experience developing workforce and labor strategies to reduce risk and improve operational stability
- Experience using HR data, metrics, and analytics to measure business outcomes and inform executive decisions
- Working knowledge of state employment and labor environments
- Expertise in organization design, succession planning, engagement strategy, leadership development, and change management
- Business and financial acumen
- Executive presence and ability to influence without authority
- Strong strategic, collaborative, consultative, relationship-building, analytical, and communication skills
- Strong knowledge of health insurance plans, including Medicare Advantage
- Familiarity with graduate medical education programs and medical school graduates
- Must live within the Sacramento or Emeryville footprint and work onsite approximately 12 days per month
Sutter Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sutter Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Sutter Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with broad networks and strong wellness support. Family coverage is characterized as low-cost or nearly free in some plan options, reinforcing perceived value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include employer matching and, in some cases, a pension after a tenure threshold. Supplemental protections like life and disability insurance add to the overall financial security package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is framed as generous, with examples of sizable PTO allotments early in tenure. Additional supports such as flexible scheduling and leave programs contribute to a sense of time-off breadth.
Sutter Health Insights
What We Do
Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit healthcare networks, which includes award-winning physician organizations, acute care hospitals, surgery centers, medical research facilities and specialty services. Our team of 68,000 doctors, employees and volunteers proudly cares for Northern California. Our facilities and care centers are located in large, urban cities and small, rural communities, from the Pacific Coast to the San Joaquin Valley. You’ll find us in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, the snowy mountains of the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe, Napa Valley, Yosemite and the coastal redwoods. We even have an affiliate in Hawaii. Join us and be part of a dedicated group of professionals committed to putting patients’ needs first and achieving the highest levels of quality, access and affordability.
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