Director, Program Management (IKC)
About The Position
DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (IKC) delivers value-based care for patients across the kidney care spectrum, with a focus on improving clinical outcomes for medically complex populations. The Director of Value-Based Care Growth supports long-term programmatic strategy and a multi-year roadmap for member growth across Chronic Special Needs Plan (CSNP) partnerships. The role collaborates directly with health plans to increase awareness of plans and programs tailored to the kidney care community. It integrates growth initiatives across payer partners, field operations, and clinical care teams, and translates member behavior insights into scalable operational workflows. The Director also leads business reviews, oversees pilots and their potential scaling, and develops a team of managers and analysts.
Requirements
- 6 to 10 years of progressive experience in healthcare strategy, operations, or program management.
- Strong strategic and analytical acumen, including the ability to partner with analytical teams to generate insights, optimize strategies, and solve complex operational challenges.
- Exceptional relationship-building and strategic influence skills.
- Proven ability to drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders and communicate compelling executive-level narratives in a highly matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated success executing complex, large-scale initiatives.
Nice To Haves
- Expertise in healthcare insurance, fee-for-service, value-based care, CSNPs, and member support ecosystems (listed as preferred).
- Bachelor’s degree (listed as preferred).
Responsibilities
- Support multi-year roadmap development for value-based care organic growth and retention, aligned with enterprise goals and programmatic strategies.
- Collaborate with health plans as they build sales and marketing ecosystems to increase awareness of plans and programs tailored to members’ needs.
- Drive field leadership sponsorship and buy-in for program capacity; partner on workflow design and continuous operational improvement when integrating initiatives into clinical environments.
- Conceptualize new initiatives, develop business cases, oversee pilot execution, and scale successful models across the enterprise.
- Lead regular business operating reviews and partner with finance, actuarial, and analytics teams to clarify the C-SNP growth narrative, guide strategy, and inform operational execution.
- Lead, mentor, and develop managers and analysts to execute strategic priorities and overcome operational challenges.
- Develop self and others while championing the DaVita Way.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Paid time off and PTO cash out.
- Family resources and EAP counseling sessions.
- Access to Headspace®.
- Backup child and elder care.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Professional development programs and on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through StarLearning.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
