AVP Culture

When you're the best, we're the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

AVP Culture is a key enterprise leader responsible for designing, leading, and sustaining Vizient's culture transformation strategy. This role partners across business units and enterprise functions to create the conditions for a purpose-driven, high-performing, and inclusive culture that enhances employee engagement, accelerates innovation, and supports strategic growth.
With a deep commitment to collaboration and enterprise partnership, the AVP will work closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to shape experiences that embed our mission, values, and leadership expectations throughout the employee lifecycle. This leader will guide a team of culture and engagement professionals and leverage data-driven insights to inform enterprise decisions, shift mindsets, and inspire shared ownership for culture across the organization.

Culture Transformation Leadership

• Lead the enterprise culture strategy to evolve and embed Vizient's desired culture in alignment with our mission, vision, and values.
• Act as a culture thought leader and trusted advisor to executives, shaping leadership behavior, rituals, and employee experiences that drive cultural alignment and performance.
• Build and execute a multi-year culture roadmap that integrates mindset shifts, behavior change, and measurement frameworks tied to business outcomes.

Employee Engagement & Experience Strategy

• Develop and implement a modern employee engagement and experience strategy across the employee lifecycle, with emphasis on hybrid work innovation, wellbeing, recognition, and shared purpose.
• Oversee high-impact programs such as Culture Week, the Vizient Culture Book, and enterprise storytelling initiatives that reinforce key behaviors and values.
• Drive the alignment of culture, belonging, talent, and business strategies to deliver an integrated employee experience that fosters inclusion, growth, and performance.

Listening & Analytics

• Lead enterprise continuous listening efforts (onboarding, engagement, pulse, exit, and lifecycle surveys) to ensure timely and actionable insights.
• Analyze and synthesize employee data with workforce analytics to uncover trends, shape strategy, and inform leadership decisions with compelling narratives.
• Present insights and outcomes to executive leaders, ensuring clarity of impact and alignment with enterprise goals.

Collaboration & Change Enablement

• Partner closely with HRBPs, Talent, Communications, Organizational Effectiveness and Business Unit leaders to operationalize culture initiatives across functions and levels.
• Promote shared accountability for culture transformation through strong cross-functional collaboration, consultation, and influence.
• Serve as a change champion, enabling adoption of new mindsets and behaviors through clear communication, inclusive engagement, and practical tools.

Team & Program Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing Culture & Engagement team to deliver consistent enterprise value.
• Create governance, best practices, and operating models that scale culture transformation work efficiently and sustainably.

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This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.