Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity

Vizient•Chicago, IL

4d•$156,500 - $290,100

About The Position

The Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity leads Vizient’s capability for identifying, assessing, and informing the prioritization of growth opportunities within the Strategic Market Research & Industry Insights function in the Office of Strategy Management. The role covers proactively identified opportunities as well as those generated by business units, including organic, inorganic, adjacent, cross-business-unit, and other growth opportunities. The AVP is the primary accountable lead for integrated assessments, establishing a repeatable, AI-enabled process that brings together evidence from Market & Client Research, Strategic Competitive Intelligence, the Vizient Growth Outlook, and relevant business-unit context. The role turns this evidence into comparable, decision-ready assessments and recommendations about which opportunities to advance, defer, or stop. The AVP collaborates across the business with Corporate and business-unit Strategy, Corporate Development, R&D, Product, and relevant business-unit partners to support formal strategy development, business cases, diligence, partnerships, and execution. The position is based at corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas, or facilities in Chicago, Illinois, or Centennial, Colorado; remote work within the United States will also be considered.

Requirements

Relevant degree preferred; a master’s degree is preferred.
At least 10 years of relevant experience.
Knowledge of the U.S. healthcare industry and its stakeholders, healthcare economics, evolving client needs, enterprise strategy, and cross-business-unit operating models.
Understanding of relationships among products, services, capabilities, data, technology, partnerships, and markets.
Significant experience leading healthcare-related growth strategy, market opportunity assessments, portfolio development, or a related discipline.
Ability to identify, frame, evaluate, prioritize, and advance organic, adjacent, cross-business-unit, partnership, acquisition, and other enterprise growth opportunities.
Strong understanding of opportunity evaluation, including client demand, market attractiveness and trajectory, competitive dynamics, right to win, strategic and solution fit, potential value, investment requirements, risk, timing, and execution dependencies.
Quantitative and financial fluency in market sizing, forecasting, TAM/SAM/SOM, and internal business and commercial data; ability to interpret outputs, challenge assumptions, and assess opportunity scale, growth potential, and investment implications without owning the underlying model architecture.
Ability to turn ambiguous enterprise or business-unit requests into defined opportunity hypotheses, assessment scopes, decision criteria, workplans, and actionable recommendations, while recognizing organizational connectivity, overlaps, dependencies, and synergies.
Ability to synthesize market and client research, competitive intelligence, quantitative analyses, and internal performance and commercial data into comparable opportunities, strategic options, trade-offs, and prioritization recommendations.
Effectiveness leading cross-functional work with Marketing Insights, R&D, Product, business-unit leaders, Corporate/BU Strategy, and Corporate Development.
Ability to operate as a hands-on, AI-enabled leader who designs and delivers assessments, builds repeatable workflows and decision standards, facilitates executive decisions, and communicates complex analyses clearly in writing, presentations, and discussions.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Relevant degree.
Master’s degree.

Responsibilities

Design, lead, and continuously improve the growth-opportunity assessment process, including proactively identifying opportunities based on the Vizient Growth Outlook and responding to business requests.
Lead integrated opportunity assessments by defining the opportunity, decision questions, scope, evaluation criteria, stakeholders, and required evidence.
Assess organizational connectivity for each opportunity, including client needs, business-unit strategies, products and services, capabilities, data and technology assets, client relationships, partnerships, dependencies, overlaps, and enterprise synergies.
Coordinate contributions from Market & Client Research, Competitive Intelligence, the Vizient Growth Outlook, internal performance and commercial data, business-unit leaders, Marketing Insights, R&D, Product, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, and other relevant groups.
Develop comparable, evidence-based assessments of client need, market attractiveness and trajectory, competitive dynamics, Vizient’s right to win, strategic fit, solution implications, potential value, investment requirements, risks, trade-offs, and dependencies.
Apply a decision framework to support leadership recommendations on deepening capabilities, entering adjacent spaces, coordinating across business units, developing solutions, partnering, acquiring, deferring, or discontinuing activity.
Establish repeatable AI-enabled assessment workflows and maintain the opportunity pipeline and decision record.
Provide structured handoffs of prioritized opportunities to Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, and/or business partners for strategy development, business-case development, diligence, partnership, or execution.
Personally design and deliver high-priority assessments, build repeatable workflows and decision standards, facilitate executive decisions, and communicate complex analyses clearly.