Sr. Manager, Clinical Innovation

Vytalize Health•Kansas, KS

17h

About The Position

The Sr. Manager, Clinical Innovation owns the launch and management of new clinical programs designed to improve patient outcomes, care coordination, and financial performance. This role drives a small portfolio of concurrent programs from concept through launch and transition to scaled operations, including developing concepts and business cases, determining whether to buy or build, and designing and implementing execution models. The position partners closely with Clinical Services and Performance, Product & Engineering, Market Leadership, Analytics, Legal, and Finance, and is accountable for program KPIs and targets. The role requires a strategic operator who can move between high-level strategy and day-to-day execution in unstructured, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environments. Programs are approached as systems involving clinical, financial, operational, and technology levers. The position operates at the intersection of clinical operations and product development and requires the ability to learn and apply AI tools and emerging technologies. The Sr. Manager reports to the VP of Clinical Innovation and sits within the VBC business unit, which is responsible for P&L performance of Vytalize’s VBC activities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
5–8 years of professional experience, including 2–3 years in the healthcare industry.
Experience managing large-scale, complex programs or projects.
Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities, including financial modeling, forecasting, KPI development, business case creation, and scenario modeling.
Effective communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience applying AI, automation, predictive analytics, or emerging technologies to solve business challenges and improve operational performance.
Experience working in high-growth, fast-paced environments.
Ability to build working fluency in unfamiliar domains quickly.
Systems-thinking skills, including the ability to map clinical, financial, operational, and technology interactions and design programs around them.
First-principles reasoning and ability to decompose ambiguous problems.
Bias toward action, including running small, fast experiments and iterating.
Resourcefulness and ability to make progress with available resources.
Willingness to handle hands-on and unglamorous work needed to launch programs.
Strong ownership of program outcomes, including addressing obstacles outside direct control.
Ability to build investment cases and gain support from executives, internal teams, and practice partners without formal authority.
Practical proficiency with LLM-based AI tools for documentation, synthesis, and analysis acceleration.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a relevant field, such as MHA, MPH, or MBA.
Experience in management consulting, strategic consulting, or a similarly rigorous problem-solving environment.
Product management or health technology experience.
Program design or user-centered design experience.
End-to-end ownership of a program, product, or venture from concept through launch.
Value-based care experience, including ACO, population health, or managed care settings.
Deep expertise in a high-value clinical area, such as cardiology, oncology, or behavioral health.
Vendor management, partnership management, or customer success experience, including contracting, performance monitoring, and operational relationship ownership.

Responsibilities

Lead strategy, oversight, and performance management for a portfolio of enterprise initiatives.
Facilitate concept vetting and development sessions, synthesize outcomes, and drive follow-up actions.
Drive stakeholder alignment and executive decision-making.
Build rollout and adoption plans, including stakeholder communications, training materials, go-live support, and post-launch feedback loops.
Develop and communicate business requirements with cross-functional internal stakeholders.
Manage day-to-day project tasks, execute business priorities, and communicate status, risks, and dependencies.
Maintain project and product roadmaps, tracking tools, and governance structures.
Prepare status updates and reports for internal and external communications, including Monthly Business Reviews, ACO Board reports, and Board decks.
Develop initiative playbooks, communication plans, and change management strategies.
Monitor KPIs and business outcomes; identify opportunities to improve, scale, and optimize programs and operational processes.
Drive process improvement and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
Analyze clinical, operational, financial, and business datasets to support strategy and program decisions and recommendations.
Translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.
Develop operational, financial, forecasting, and scenario models to support strategic decision-making.
Build executive presentations and business cases.
Serve as the primary point of contact for vendors across the Clinical Innovation portfolio.
Monitor vendor performance against contracted KPIs and SLAs, maintain scorecards, and conduct recurring performance reviews.
Support contracting and renewals by documenting scope, statements of work, KPIs/SLAs, and payment structures, and partnering with Legal, Finance, and Compliance through review cycles.
Manage vendor onboarding and offboarding, including implementation planning, access and compliance requirements, and transition of in-flight work.
Track and escalate vendor risk, validate invoices against delivery, and ensure timely payment processing.

Benefits

Competitive base compensation.
Annual bonus potential.
Health benefits effective on the start date.
Health and Wellness Program with up to $300 per quarter for overall well-being, available on the start date.
401(k) plan effective on the first of the month after the start date, with a 100% match of up to 4% of annual salary.
Unlimited or generous paid Vytal Time.
Five paid sick days after the first 90 days.
Company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
Technology setup.
Opportunity to help build a market leader in value-based healthcare at a rapidly growing organization.