MeeDerby Candidate Spotlight – Strategic Finance & Operations Leader | Healthcare Staffing – Omaha, NE
Based in Omaha, we are working with a strategic finance and business operations leader with 20+ years of experience, including the last decade supporting healthcare staffing and other complex organizations. A consistent theme throughout his career is that Presidents and senior executives have identified a business need and brought him in to solve it—often creating roles around his ability to diagnose problems that sit between finance, sales, and operations.
Within healthcare staffing, he has become a trusted partner to executive leadership on commission strategy, pricing, margin management, forecasting, and performance metrics. What differentiates him is his ability to move beyond the spreadsheet: he understands how a financial decision impacts recruiter behavior, how a commission plan changes selling behavior, and how pricing and margin decisions affect both production and profitability. Having worked as an individual contributor himself, he is comfortable moving between the executive level and the people actually using the tools and processes he creates.
- Commission and compensation strategy is a particular strength, designing plans around FTEs, revenue, or margin and modeling both payout costs and likely behaviors before rollout.
- Built forecasting models and KPI frameworks that gave executives more consistent visibility into revenue, traveler headcount, recruiter productivity, and business performance.
- Created margin-management and approval processes using defined calculations and thresholds, giving production teams clearer parameters for making profitable pricing decisions.
- Built a ranking methodology across thousands of healthcare facilities, using conversion data to focus recruiter activity on higher-probability opportunities rather than simply the highest-paying jobs.
- Brings an unusually cross-functional operating perspective and can approach a problem through the lens of finance, recruiting, sales, or operations—then translate the solution in a way each group can use.
He was impacted by a reduction in force and is now exploring his next opportunity. He would be especially interesting for a staffing agency needing a strategic operator who can work alongside the executive team to strengthen commission strategy, KPIs, pricing, margin management, forecasting, or overall business performance.
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