Sr. Manager, Clinical Innovation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, oversight, and performance management of a portfolio of enterprise initiatives
• Facilitate concept vetting and development sessions, synthesize and drive actions/follow ups
• Drive stakeholder alignment and executive decision-making
• Build rollout and adoption plans for new programs, including stakeholder communications, training materials, go-live support, and post-launch feedback loops
• Develop and communicate business requirements with cross-functional internal stakeholders
• Manage day-to-day project tasks, driving execution of business priorities, and providing clear, ongoing communication on status, risks, and dependencies
• Maintain project/product roadmaps, tracking tools, and governance structures
• Prepare status update templates and reports for internal and external communications, including Monthly Business Reviews, ACO Board report outs, and Board decks
• Change Management/Operational Excellence
• Develop initiative playbooks, communication plans, and change management strategies
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and business outcomes
• Identify opportunities to improve, scale, and optimize programs and operational processes
• Drive process improvement and organizational effectiveness initiatives
• Analysis
• Analyze data from a variety of sources, including large and complex clinical, operational, financial, and business datasets
• To support strategy and programmatic decisions and recommendations
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations
• Develop operational, financial, forecasting, and scenario models to support strategic decision-making
• Build compelling executive presentations and business cases
• Vendor Management
• Serve as primary point of contact for vendors across the Clinical Innovation portfolio
• Monitor vendor performance against contracted KPIs and SLAs; maintain scorecards and run recurring performance reviews
• Support contracting and renewal activity — document scope, statements of work, KPIs/SLAs, and payment structures; partner with Legal, Finance, and Compliance through review cycles
• Manage vendor onboarding and offboarding, including implementation planning, access and compliance requirements, and transition of in-flight work
• Track and escalate vendor risk; validate invoices against delivery and ensure timely payment processing

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5 years of experience working within the healthcare industry, ideally in value-based care, ACO, population health, or managed care settings
• Experience managing large-scale, complex programs and projects within a healthcare context
• Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities, including financial modeling, forecasting, KPI development, business case creation, and scenario modeling
• Effective communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Hands-on vendor management experience: administering executed agreements, monitoring SLA performance, and managing vendor relationships operationally
• Experience applying AI, automation, predictive analytics, or emerging technologies to solve business challenges and improve operational performance

Skills & Competencies

• Practical proficiency with LLM-based AI tools for documentation, synthesis, and analysis acceleration