System Director - Radiology Hospital Imaging Services

Park Nicollet is looking to hire a System Director - Radiology Hospital Imaging Services to join our team! Come join us as a Partner for Good and help us make an impact on the care and experience that our patients and their families receive every day.

Position Summary:

The System Director - Radiology Hospital Imaging Services provides enterprise leadership for hospital-based imaging across HealthPartners, including inpatient, emergency, procedural, and interventional services. This role is responsible for ensuring high-reliability operations, exceptional patient care, and strong financial performance across eight hospitals, while advancing system priorities related to access, quality, and growth. Working in close partnership with radiology physician leadership, hospital executives, and the Director of Ambulatory Imaging Operations, the Director leads strategy, standardizes operations, and drives innovation to optimize imaging services across the continuum of care.

This leader oversees operational performance, workforce strategy, and capital planning across modalities including general radiology, MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, PET, ultrasound, and interventional radiology. The Director is accountable for developing high-performing teams, strengthening clinical and operational integration, and leveraging data to improve patient outcomes, experience, and efficiency. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, outcomes-oriented healthcare leader with strong financial and operational expertise, a track record of leading complex teams, and the ability to partner effectively with physicians and system leaders to advance care excellence.

Leadership Responsibility:

Directs all hospital-based radiology and imaging operations across 8 sites. Inclusive of technological and business functions. Responsible for over $105M in annual expense budget and in excess of 415 FTEs.

Direct reports include Radiology department managers. Those supervised are usually multi-disciplined exempt staff with varying levels of education and skills and knowledge.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday

Required Qualifications:

Education, Experience or Equivalent Combination:

• Bachelor's Degree in business administration, healthcare administration, or related field
• Five (5) years leadership experience in healthcare finance, management, operations, or related field including leadership demonstrated effective partnership with physicians and physician leaders
• Clinical expertise in the area of radiology or nursing

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Outcomes orientation
• Ability to demonstrate superior leadership, change management, and communication skills
• Demonstrated success in effective collaboration with key stakeholders, including: organizational leaders, clinicians, and staff
• Able to lead, direct, collaborate and motivate multidisciplinary teams of employees
• Financial analysis, budgeting and reimbursement (both professional and technical healthcare services) skills
• Strong operational reporting and analysis capabilities
• Process improvement methodologies and application in the health care setting
• Human resources management
• Compliance management
• Clinician retention and recruitment experience
• Experience in building care excellence
• Problem solving skills with a solution orientation
• Conflict resolution including interpersonal, intra/interdepartmental

Preferred Qualifications:

Education, Experience or Equivalent Combination:

• Masters Degree in business administration, healthcare administration, or related field
• Integrated healthcare delivery system experience

Benefits:

Park Nicollet offers a competitive benefits package (for eligible positions) that includes medical insurance, dental insurance, a retirement program, time away from work, insurance options, tuition reimbursement, an employee assistance program, o