Vice President, Healthcare Staffing
Job Description
Vice President, Healthcare Staffing (Travel Nursing & Allied) - Atlanta
MUST HAVE- Healthcare Staffing industry experience and Travel Nurse/Allied experience a plus
We are seeking a strategic, execution-driven Vice President to lead a healthcare staffing division focused on Travel Nursing and Travel Allied placements. This role represents a key leadership position within the organization and will play a critical role in driving growth, operational excellence, and market leadership across two established staffing brands.
The Vice President will partner closely with the Executive Vice President to shape and execute the division’s strategy while delivering strong financial performance and operational results. This leader will oversee a team of five senior leaders responsible for sales, recruiting, and operational delivery, ensuring alignment, accountability, and consistent execution across the organization.
This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who thrives in a performance-driven environment, can translate strategy into action, and has a proven track record of scaling staffing organizations.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
- Partner with the Executive Vice President to define and execute the division’s strategic direction, growth initiatives, and market positioning.
- Identify and capitalize on opportunities to expand market share in Travel Nursing and Travel Allied staffing.
- Develop and implement scalable growth strategies across both brands.
- Drive continuous improvement across recruiting, sales, and operational processes.
Financial Leadership
- Maintain full P&L responsibility for a division, including revenue growth, gross margin performance, and cost management.
- Partner on annual budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
- Monitor key operational and financial metrics, ensuring strong accountability for performance across teams.
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead a team of five senior leaders responsible for recruiting, sales, and operations.
- Drive performance through clear goals, strong accountability, and disciplined execution.
- Establish strong operating rhythms including goal setting, performance reviews, and KPI tracking.
- Develop leadership capability and build high-performing teams across the organization.
Execution & Operational Excellence
- Translate strategic initiatives into clear execution plans with measurable outcomes.
- Ensure consistent operational execution across both brands while maintaining each brand’s unique identity and market positioning.
- Drive improvements in recruiting productivity, candidate pipeline growth, and client delivery performance.
- Implement scalable processes, systems, and operational frameworks that support continued growth.
Client & Market Leadership
- Maintain deep insight into healthcare staffing market dynamics, including hospital systems, MSP relationships, and vendor programs.
- Support and strengthen key client relationships and strategic partnerships.
- Ensure high levels of service delivery and client satisfaction across the division.
Qualifications
- Leadership experience in healthcare staffing, travel nursing, or travel allied staffing.
- Proven success leading sales and recruiting organizations within a staffing environment.
- Experience managing P&L performance and operational metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to lead leaders and drive results in a layered organization.
- Strategic thinker with a hands-on, execution-focused leadership style.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational alignment skills.
Why This Role
This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape the future of a growing healthcare staffing division with strong market presence and established brands. The Vice President will play a central role in scaling revenue, strengthening operations, and expanding market share while building and developing high-performing teams.
Compensation includes- Aggressive six figure base with upside incentive/
Contact Jill@meederby.com for details
Job Number 7813
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Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Jill Balick
Director and Executive Recruiter
Jill has more than 25 years of staffing management and recruiting experience, and brings significant industry intelligence and networking channels to MeeDerby’s client companies. Jill joined MeeDerby after a successful career in New York City managing Executive Search divisions for several organizations. Jill is a graduate of Colgate University and is fluent in Spanish.
Jill served as the former chair for the North Carolina chapter of ASA. She has been a mentor for the Wayfinders program in Charlotte, NC for over a decade, an organization providing children from high-poverty schools the opportunity to supplement their education with experiences that improve academic achievement and physical activity, expand their social capital, and increase their preparedness for the workforce.
