Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations, Client Success

Lantern•New York, NY

9h•$165,000 - $180,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Lantern is the specialty care platform connecting people with the best care when they need it most. By curating a Network of Excellence comprised of the nation's top specialists for surgery, cancer care, infusions and more, Lantern delivers excellent care with significant cost savings to employers and their workforces. Lantern also pairs members with a dedicated care team, including Care Advocates and nurses, for the entirety of their care journey, helping them get back to good health, back to their families and back to work. With convenient access to specialists nationwide, Lantern means quality care is within driving distance for most. Lantern is trusted by the nation's largest employers to deliver care to more than 6 million members across the country. About the Team Commercial Strategy & Operations ("CSO") (i.e., Lantern's Revenue Operations team) supports the President and his broader go-to-market function, including Employer Sales, Employer Client Success, Marketing, Clinical and Partnerships (health plans, ecosystem partners). CSO is responsible for Commercial strategy (how we grow), planning (resourcing, goals, compensation), insights (how we're doing and what we need to do differently next week/month/quarter), process (like how we prepare for client meetings), tools (like SFDC and AI tools for Commercial), and data (activities, contract details, customer health signals, and more). This role sits within CSO. CSO serves the Commercial organization and partners closely with each member of the Commercial Leadership Team (head of Sales, head of Client Success, etc.). Reporting to the Director of Commercial Strategy & Operations, the mission of the Senior Lead, Strategy & Operations, Client Success is to partner with CS leadership to help their teams become more effective by running annual planning, measuring performance metrics, observing/listening for operational needs, and reducing admin burden. You will be the right-hand and thought partner to the head of Client Success, holding her accountable to execution and embedding yourself in the team to uncover her strategic and operational needs. You will spearhead capacity modeling/account assignments, set quotas, stand up an operating and forecasting cadence, develop and up-level our processes, and solve problems every day to help us scale. Ultimately, your efforts will directly drive successful client launches, retaining our most strategic clients and client expansion.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant professional experience
Deep analytical skills with high attention to detail
Strategic thinking and ability to articulate long-term value creation, not just operational discipline
Supreme organization, coupled with persistence to keep following up until things are done and proactively communicate progress
Gritty, hard working, and able to operate in a dynamic, high-growth environment
Excellent problem-solving skills and structured thinking when the problem at hand is ambiguous

Nice To Haves

3+ years Investment banking or management consulting background
Experience in healthcare or employer benefits
Demonstrated experience in business operations or Client Success
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI to streamline and improve workflows

Responsibilities

Be the right-hand to the Client Success leadership team, addressing their various strategic and operational needs
Shape and directly implement the Client Success strategy & design, including establishing growth targets, segmenting our client base, designing and managing books of business, setting quotas, and developing cross-functional plans that ensure we achieve those targets
Establish OKRs and KPIs; monitor and report on them regularly; and ensure the CS team can easily access and take action on these metrics
Stand up the Client Success operating cadence to manage upsell and renewals pipeline, flag risks, devise countermeasures to those risks, and forecast accurately
Build a customer health score/model with qualitative and quantitative inputs from a variety of complex sources that identify whitespace and churn risk
Project-manage a variety of cross-functional initiatives that level-up the Client Success organization by partnering with others in Strategy & Operations along with Sales, Marketing, Network, and technology teams
Work closely with leadership to collect business requirements for Salesforce and other data to capture, ensuring these solutions are implemented successfully by your GTM Systems teammates