Department
Operations
Position
Vice President of Operations
Reports To
Chief Executive Officer / Executive Leadership Team
Employment Type
Full-Time, Exempt
Region
Georgia, South Carolina & Florida
Location
Southeast United States
Travel
Significant regional travel required
Excelsior Ambulance Service, Inc. is seeking an exceptional Vice President of Operations to provide executive leadership for operations across Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
This position may be based anywhere within Florida, Georgia, or South Carolina. The successful candidate must be able and willing to travel extensively throughout the assigned region and to other Company locations as business needs require.
This is not a traditional regional operations role. We are seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and highly engaged leader who sees opportunity where others see obstacles and possesses the drive, passion, creativity, and business acumen necessary to help build the next generation of ambulance services.
The Regional Vice President will have significant responsibility for business operations, growth, organizational culture, clinical quality, customer experience, financial performance, and organizational development across a rapidly expanding multi-state platform.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities- Lead and develop high-performing regional operations across Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
- Build and maintain a culture centered on safety, accountability, clinical excellence, professionalism, and exceptional patient care.
- Drive profitable organic growth and support the identification and integration of new market opportunities and acquisitions.
- Develop strong relationships with hospitals, health systems, skilled nursing facilities, physicians, payors, community partners, and other key customers.
- Establish clear operational standards, expectations, and accountability throughout the region.
- Improve organizational performance through data, technology, process improvement, and innovative operating models.
- Partner with senior leadership to develop and execute the Company's strategic growth plan.
- Recruit, develop, retain, and motivate exceptional leaders and frontline team members.
- Establish meaningful performance metrics and ensure consistent execution across markets.
- Champion clinical quality, patient safety, compliance, and regulatory performance.
- Improve fleet utilization, staffing efficiency, response performance, productivity, and overall operational performance.
- Lead organizational change while maintaining employee engagement and customer confidence.
- Identify opportunities to expand services, enter new markets, develop strategic partnerships, and create new revenue streams.
- Participate in acquisition due diligence, integration planning, and post-acquisition operational leadership.
- Represent the Company as a senior executive and ambassador throughout the Southeast.
The successful candidate will bring entrepreneurial energy to a complex healthcare operation and demonstrate the ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution.
- Thinks like an entrepreneur and operates like an executive.
- Has a strong passion for EMS, healthcare, and serving patients.
- Is energized by growth, change, and opportunity.
- Takes ownership and initiative rather than waiting for direction.
- Builds relationships and earns the trust of employees, customers, and partners.
- Is comfortable making decisions and accepting accountability for results.
- Understands that organizational culture is created through leadership behavior and accountability.
- Can inspire employees while maintaining high standards for performance.
- Is equally comfortable discussing strategy with executive leadership and operations with field supervisors.
- Uses operational data and financial information to make informed decisions.
- Is innovative, curious, and willing to challenge conventional thinking.
- Has the courage to identify problems and the determination to resolve them.
- Believes operational excellence and compassionate patient care should exist together.
- Has a desire to build and develop an organization for long-term success.
- Significant leadership experience in ambulance/EMS, healthcare transportation, healthcare services, or a closely related healthcare environment.
- Demonstrated success leading multi-location or multi-market operations.
- Strong financial and operational management skills.
- Experience developing leaders and managing high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and achieve measurable performance improvement.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and executive presence.
- Ability and willingness to travel significantly throughout Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and other locations as business needs require.
- Paramedic, EMT, or other relevant clinical background.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in healthcare administration, business, management, or a related field.
- Experience developing healthcare system partnerships and managing contractual relationships.
- Experience with acquisitions, integrations, startups, turnarounds, or high-growth organizations.
- Experience managing multi-state operations.
- Strong understanding of ambulance reimbursement, EMS operations, and healthcare economics.
Within the first 12 months, the Vice President of Operations is expected to:
- Build a strong and accountable regional leadership team.
- Improve operational consistency and performance across the region.
- Strengthen relationships with key healthcare customers.
- Create a measurable culture of safety, quality, accountability, and employee engagement.
- Identify and execute meaningful growth opportunities.
- Improve financial and operational performance.
- Develop a strong leadership pipeline.
- Establish the region as a high-performing growth engine for the Company.
This is an opportunity to join an organization focused on thinking differently about ambulance services and healthcare delivery.
The Vice President of Operations will have the opportunity to influence strategy, build teams, develop markets, improve patient care, and help shape the organization during an important period of growth.
We are looking for leaders who do not simply want a job - we are looking for builders.
If you are a progressive and enthusiastic healthcare leader with drive, passion, resilience, and an entrepreneurial spirit, and you want to help build a best-in-class ambulance organization across the Southeast, we want to hear from you.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Excelsior Ambulance Service, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Skills Required
- Significant leadership experience in ambulance/EMS, healthcare transportation, healthcare services, or a closely related healthcare environment.
- Demonstrated success leading multi-location or multi-market operations.
- Strong financial and operational management skills.
- Experience developing leaders and managing high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and achieve measurable performance improvement.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and executive presence.
- Ability and willingness to travel significantly throughout Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and other locations as business needs require.
- Paramedic, EMT, or other relevant clinical background.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in healthcare administration, business, management, or a related field.
- Experience developing healthcare system partnerships and managing contractual relationships.
- Experience with acquisitions, integrations, startups, turnarounds, or high-growth organizations.
- Experience managing multi-state operations.
- Strong understanding of ambulance reimbursement, EMS operations, and healthcare economics.
What We Do
Excelsior Ambulance Service provides EMS and specialty transport services for hospitals, health systems, communities, event partners, and patients across the Southeast. Established in 2011, Excelsior operates throughout Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida, providing emergency and non-emergency response, 911 services, interfacility transportation, critical care and specialty transport, and special event medical support. As a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Excelsior is built around high-performance operations, advanced clinical capability, and dependable system support. Our EMTs, paramedics, and clinical teams are trained and equipped to manage a wide range of patient needs, from basic and advanced life support to complex, high-acuity transports. We work alongside healthcare partners to support both routine operations and complex transport needs while continuing to invest in the equipment, education, protocols, and clinical environment that allow EMS professionals to advance their practice. Our goal is to be the EMS partner healthcare organizations can trust, the workplace clinicians can grow within, and the specialty transport resource the Southeast can rely on when the need is routine, complex, or urgent.
