Director, Partner Engagement

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise strategy for provider engagement, grounded in market insights, organizational priorities, and long-term value creation.
• Identify complex, ambiguous business challenges across provider experience, clinical integration, and operational execution—and structure them into clear, actionable problem statements.
• Lead strategic initiative design from concept through execution, ensuring alignment between enterprise vision and field-level realities.
• Arcitect scalable solutions, playbooks, and operating models that enable consistent execution across a national footprint while allowing for market-level nuance.
• Integrate cross-functional capabilities (clinical, operations, analytics, technology) into cohesive, end-to-end solutions that improve outcomes for providers and patients.
• Drive clarity in “how the work gets done,” ensuring strategies are translated into clear processes, roles, and decision frameworks.
• Serve as a central connector across executive stakeholders, aligning disparate priorities into a unified strategic direction.
• Influence decision-making through structured thinking, data-driven insights, and clear communication, particularly in environments with competing perspectives.
• Partner deeply with field and operational leaders to ensure strategies are practical, adoptable, and drive measurable impact.
• Establish clear success metrics and feedback loops to monitor initiative performance and inform iterative improvement.
• Use data and insights to reallocate resources, refine strategies, and drive continuous optimization.
• Ensure that initiatives move beyond concept to durable, adopted capabilities embedded in the organization.
• Lead and develop a team responsible for strategy development, initiative execution, and performance management.
• Elevate team capabilities in structured problem solving, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking.
• Foster a culture of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred
• 10+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, healthcare transformation, or a similarly strategic role
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution within large or matrixed organizations
• Proven ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop actionable solutions, and drive enterprise-level impact
• Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and aligning teams around shared strategic priorities
• Experience designing scalable operating models, playbooks, or enterprise capabilities preferred
• Healthcare experience strongly preferred, particularly in payer, provider, or value-based care environments
• Excellent analytical, communication, and executive presence skills

Qualifications

Location: Denver-based preferred (hybrid; 3 days in office)

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

Pay

The Salary Range for the role is $115,000.00 - $183,000.00/year.

Schedule

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation.