Senior Director, Venture Delivery

Vizient • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves . We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future. Summary In this role, you will serve as the operational backbone for Vizient’s R&D ventures, acting as a trusted execution partner to venture leadership. You will thrive in ambiguity, bringing structure, rigor, and momentum to early-stage and fast-evolving initiatives. This role requires a rare combination of strategic judgment and hands-on execution, with the ability to translate vision into disciplined operating rhythms that drive measurable progress. Reporting to the VP of Venture Delivery, you will function as a “second-in-command,” shaping internal operating models, supporting venture scale-up, and ensuring tight coordination across product, technology, commercial, legal, and compliance stakeholders. This position is ideal for a builder-minded operator energized by creating scalable systems, teams, and processes from the ground up.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Technology, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 10 or more years of progressive operational leadership experience in early-stage, high-growth, or innovation-driven environments.
• Extensive operational leadership experience in early-stage or high-growth environments, ideally within product, technology or innovation portfolios.
• Background as a Chief of Staff, senior program manager, or operations lead, with both strategic foresight and tactical capability.
• A builder’s mindset with proven experience designing new teams, workflows or operational systems from scratch.
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate alignment, and represent venture progress at the highest levels.
• Strong command of Agile and Scrum frameworks, with the fluency to guide execution approaches, not just participate in them.
• Operational rigor and technical fluency that’s comfortable managing workflows, reporting systems and PM tools.
• Experience integrating and aligning with privacy, legal and compliance functions within a fast-paced development context.
• Proven ability to lead resource planning, budgeting, and hiring efforts in collaboration with senior functional leads.
• Adept at driving clarity and alignment across complex stakeholder networks, ensuring accountability and execution at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional execution from venture inception through scale across product, design, engineering, commercial, and operational workstreams.
• Design and institutionalize scalable operational frameworks (governance rhythms, milestone tracking, risk mitigation plans) to ensure speed and accountability without compromising compliance.
• Collaborate deeply with legal, privacy, and compliance teams, embedding operational risk management into product development timelines.
• Draft and deliver executive communications (internally and externally) that reinforce clarity and confidence across stakeholders.
• Facilitate structured collaboration across domains, aligning strategy and execution through clear operating cadences.
• Champion continuous improvement, bringing an agile, data-informed mindset to operational tooling, reporting systems, and team enablement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees