VP Portfolio Strategy & Operations

Vatica Health

1d•$195,000 - $205,000

About The Position

The VP, Portfolio Strategy & Operations is the operational extension of the EVP of Solutions and owns the full operational spine of the Solutions team: the operating rhythm, the 2028 thesis tracker, growth bet milestone tracking, and the entire portfolio governance discipline - monthly portfolio reviews, stage-gate reviews, kill list discipline, and Business Intake and Prioritization. Critically, this role also owns the cross-portfolio layer: ensuring ICP consistency across segments, stewarding the solution catalog and its lifecycle classifications, tracking growth bets against milestone commitments, and synthesizing and operationalizing the cross-portfolio market strategy (maintaining competitive intelligence, market sizing, and white space analysis) in support of the EVP of Solutions’ strategic direction. The right fit is someone who can operate as a trusted right-hand to the EVP of Solutions on strategic judgment while simultaneously running the operational machinery of a multi-VP function. The expectation is that this role would be a people manager.

Requirements

Senior ex-consultant profile (McKinsey / BCG / Bain partner-track; Chartis / ClearView / Sg2 associate partner or principal) OR prior Chief of Staff experience at healthcare SaaS or enterprise technology scale
10+ years in strategy operations, transformation, corporate strategy, product management, portfolio management, or senior advisory - with explicit experience running governance processes (stage-gate, phase-gate, product portfolio lifecycle) at enterprise scale; experience with ICP framework development, market strategy, solution catalog management, or competitive positioning in SaaS or healthcare preferred
Strong project orchestration skills with ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and governance processes
Executive presence and ability to operate as the EVP of Solutions’s trusted operational extension - comfortable being in high-stakes exec
Operational rigor with comfort being the ‘bad news bearer’ - flagging drift, surfacing zombie work and discipline failures
Crisp written communication - can draft board materials, exec narratives, and decision memos
Team leadership experience - has built and developed small teams of analysts and program managers
Healthcare or healthcare SaaS context preferred; analytical rigor and operational depth are the non-negotiables

Nice To Haves

experience with ICP framework development, market strategy, solution catalog management, or competitive positioning in SaaS or healthcare preferred

Responsibilities

Design and operate the Solutions team operating cadence, metrics tracking, and leadership review rhythm
Own design, configuration and ongoing maintenance of tooling to support intake, initiative and metrics tracking, and portfolio management
Maintain consistency and documentation of the cross-portfolio ICP framework - ensuring qualification criteria and segment boundaries are documented and applied consistently across segments; escalate inconsistencies or proposed boundary changes to the EVP of Solutions
Own the growth bet registry: track designated growth bets across the portfolio against milestone commitments, resourcing assumptions, and exit or graduation criteria; flag drift and decision points
Steward the solution catalog - maintain completeness, lifecycle classification (Incubate / Standard / Sunset), ICP-to-solution mapping, and packaging alignment
Synthesize and maintain the cross-portfolio market strategy: segment-level market sizing (TAM/SAM), competitive landscape maps, individual focus market dynamics and white space analysis
Surface market intelligence to portfolio decisions: flag when ICP definitions may no longer reflect market realities, when growth bet sizing appears misaligned with opportunity, or when catalog gaps map to competitive or demand signals - package these as decision inputs
Flag cross-portfolio narrative inconsistencies for resolution
Design and operate the monthly portfolio review rhythm in coordination with Solution Owner VPs; Solution Owner VPs (VP SOs) own the agenda and decision-making within their segments - this role owns the cadence, preparation, and documentation
Manage quarterly stage-gate reviews for solutions in Incubate, Standard, and Sunset phases
Track solution lifecycle stage and surface stage transition recommendations
Structure portfolio reviews to surface decisions for the EVP of Solutions; VP SOs hold decision authority within their segments - this role creates the conditions for decisions
Track kill list execution and stage-gate decision quality; escalate non-compliance or drift to the EVP of Solutions
Own the intake process for new solution requests from Sales, CS, Partners, P&T, and field
Run the prioritization process in coordination with VP SOs; document and communicate decisions back to requesters - prioritization decisions affecting a VP SO’s segment require their input and are escalated to the EVP of Solutions when alignment cannot be reached
Prevent 'zombie' requests (intake without resolution) with transparent SLAs and decision logs.