Director, Cost of Care Solutions
- Role
- Operations
- Experience
- Lead
Open to US only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Director-level healthcare operations leader to own enterprise Cost of Care solution deployment, optimization, and scaling. Must have 7+ years leading healthcare/physician practice/population health or value-based care operations and experience working with physicians and market leaders. Remote (USA) role — positioned for candidates able to work supporting US markets (Remote - OH).
Core skills
What you'll do
- Serve as the operational lead for assigned enterprise Cost of Care solution domains throughout their lifecycle, including deployment, optimization, scaling, and continuous improvement.
- Translate enterprise strategies into scalable operational models that can be implemented across diverse markets.
- Develop implementation frameworks, operational playbooks, and standardized operating approaches while allowing appropriate market flexibility.
- Lead deployment of enterprise Cost of Care initiatives across markets, partnering with Market Presidents, physician leaders, practice leadership, and operational teams.
- Conduct structured market optimization engagements to assess implementation maturity and identify operational barriers.
- Assess market readiness and recommend deployment sequencing, implementation approaches, and optimization priorities.
- Support markets through complex implementation challenges and foster local ownership and long-term sustainability.
- Identify variation in solution deployment and operational performance across markets and recommend improvements to increase consistency and effectiveness.
- Analyze workflows, provider engagement, and operational barriers to identify opportunities for improvement and establish feedback loops.
- Evaluate pilot initiatives and recommend operational readiness for broader enterprise deployment and scale.
- Partner with Product, Analytics, Technology, Clinical Operations, Network, and Market leadership to coordinate implementation and remove barriers.
- Represent operational and market perspectives during enterprise solution design to ensure practicality and scalability.
- Provide regular executive updates on deployment progress, adoption trends, risks, and optimization opportunities and develop executive-ready recommendations.
- Partner with the Vice President, Cost of Care to refine enterprise solutions based on organizational priorities and market needs.
- Foster collaborative relationships across enterprise and market teams and demonstrate continuous learning and professionalism.
What they require
- 7+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare operations, physician practice operations, population health, care management, value-based care, clinical operations, or related healthcare environments.
- Demonstrated success implementing and operationalizing complex initiatives across multiple sites, markets, or business units.
- Experience partnering directly with physicians, practice leadership, and operational leaders to improve clinical or operational performance.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives within highly matrixed organizations.
- Experience driving organizational change, operational improvement, and stakeholder engagement across multiple levels of an organization.
- Strong operational leadership with the ability to translate enterprise strategy into measurable execution.
- Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills, particularly with physicians and operational leaders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate data into operational action.
- Experience developing scalable operating models, implementation frameworks, and operational playbooks.
- Excellent executive communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to balance enterprise standardization with market-specific operational realities.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, and change management skills.
- Preferred: Experience supporting physician organizations participating in value-based care or risk-based payment models.
- Preferred: Experience developing and scaling operational programs across geographically dispersed markets.
- Preferred: Experience leading implementation, optimization, or transformation initiatives in physician-centric healthcare organizations.
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