About the Role
This role anchors Lifemark’s transition from rapid expansion to scalable, performance-driven growth, ensuring continued momentum strengthens enterprise value. The Vice President, Performance & Strategic Execution is responsible for translating Lifemark’s growth ambition into focused, economically disciplined, and strategically sequenced execution, owning the enterprise view of strategic planning, capital allocation, initiative prioritization, performance analytics, and executive reporting.
Responsibilities
- Lead the annual and multi-year strategic planning cycle
- Translate growth ambitions into a clear, sequenced enterprise roadmap
- Align organic and inorganic initiatives with financial and capacity realities
- Ensure strategic tradeoffs are explicit and economically grounded
- Establish rigorous business case standards for major investments
- Govern capital deployment and initiative approval processes
- Monitor ROI realization and enforce post-investment accountability
- Reallocate resources where returns deviate from expectations
- Own the enterprise initiative portfolio across growth, integration, and performance improvement
- Assess organizational capacity and prevent initiative overload
- Sequence initiatives to preserve execution quality and operational sustainability
- Eliminate misaligned or low-return efforts
- Ensure enterprise analytics deliver decision-useful insights
- Implement consistent KPI frameworks across a distributed, multi-site healthcare network
- Improve predictability of revenue, margin, and operating performance
- Elevate executive debate through commercial and analytical rigor
- Own consolidated performance reporting and strategic updates to Loblaw
- Provide transparent visibility into growth trajectory, margin performance, and capital deployment
- Translate healthcare operating realities into clear, decision-relevant insights for a retail-based corporate audience
- Ensure alignment between subsidiary strategy and parent-level expectations
- Act as a strategic partner and constructive counterbalance within the ELT
- Bring commercial discipline to expansion and integration decisions
- Support Operations in balancing growth velocity with standardization and scalability
- Elevate enterprise focus and execution clarity across the leadership team
- Establish a disciplined growth roadmap aligned to ~20 percent annual targets
- Embed structured capital allocation governance across major investments
- Strengthen enterprise reporting and strategic clarity to Loblaw
- Create transparent visibility into initiative sequencing and organizational capacity
- Reduce initiative sprawl and improve execution focus
- Improve predictability of revenue, margin, and ROI realization
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience within a multi-site, distributed P&L environment
- Experience operating at scale in organizations exceeding $500M in revenue
- Proven track record sustaining high growth while strengthening operating discipline
- Experience working within a parent-subsidiary governance structure
- Demonstrated capital allocation and investment evaluation expertise
- Prior P&L ownership or senior operational leadership strongly preferred
- Strong commercial orientation and financial fluency
- Deep understanding of capital deployment, ROI governance, and performance management
- Ability to assess tradeoffs between growth velocity and operational sustainability
- Experience integrating analytics, portfolio governance, and transformation delivery
- Comfortable operating in constructive tension within senior leadership teams
- Credible with both healthcare operators and corporate stakeholders
- Calm and disciplined under growth pressure
- Comfortable challenging assumptions with data and economic logic
- Enterprise-first mindset
- Clear communicator at executive, Board, and parent levels
- Low ego, high accountability
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Roadmap development
- Capital allocation
- Investment discipline
- Initiative portfolio prioritization
- Capacity management
- Enterprise performance architecture
- Analytics
- Performance reporting
- Commercial discipline
- Financial fluency
- ROI governance
- Performance management
- Growth velocity assessment
- Operational sustainability assessment
- Transformation delivery
- Executive communication
- Data analysis
- Economic logic application
Location
- North York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 4 days a week in office
- 1 day a week remote
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
About the Company
- Lifemark Health Group (LHG) is a market leader in customized healthcare solutions with over 20 years of service excellence, operating as one of Canada's largest and most trusted providers.
- LHG employs over 5,000 clinicians, medical experts, and team members across nearly 400 locations nationwide.
- The company is focused on being the most innovative healthcare provider in community rehabilitation, workplace health and wellness, and medical assessment services.
- Lifemark was acquired by Loblaw Companies on May 10, 2022.
- Lifemark has experienced significant growth, achieving 47% compound annual growth over the past three years through organic expansion and acquisitions.
- The company is entering a new phase focused on professionalizing operations while maintaining growth momentum, aiming for approximately 20% annual growth while strengthening its operational foundation.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive.
- Improving inclusion and equity is a collective responsibility.
- Lifemark promotes equal employment opportunities for all job applicants, including but not limited to those self-identifying as a member of the employment equity groups: Indigenous peoples, Newcomers to Canada, Women, and Visible minorities.
- Accommodations are available on request for all candidates taking part in any aspect of the recruitment and selection process. Email us at Talentatlifemark.ca.
