Sr Manager, IKC Program Management

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DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (IKC) delivers value-based care for patients across the kidney care spectrum, driving improved clinical outcomes for medically complex populations. We are a fast-paced, continually evolving team at the center of DaVita's strategy to transform health care. As the Senior Manager of Value-Based Care Growth, you will support the long-term programmatic strategy and multi-year roadmap for member growth across our Chronic Special Needs Plan (CSNP) partnerships.

You will collaborate directly with health plans to elevate awareness about plans and programs tailored to the unique needs of the kidney care community. As a strategic operator, you will seamlessly integrate diverse growth levers into a cohesive, high-performing program-aligning payer partners, field operations, and clinical care teams to execute with success.

The ideal candidate is an innovative problem-solver with deep expertise in the insurance space who can build trusted relationships, drive change, and translate complex member behavior insights into scalable operational workflows.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Support multi-year roadmap development for value-based care organic growth and retention, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and programmatic strategies.
• Health Plan Partnership: Collaborate with health plans as they build sales and marketing ecosystems to elevate awareness about plans and programs tailored to the unique needs of our members.
• Operational Integration: Drive field leadership sponsorship for the program and gain buy-in to spend capacity on these initiatives. Partner on thoughtful workflow design and drive continuous improvement in operations to execute for success when integrating into the clinical environment.
• Innovation & Pilot Execution: Drive strategic change by conceptualizing new initiatives, developing robust business cases, and overseeing the execution of pilot programs-scaling successful models across the enterprise.
• Performance Governance: Lead regular business operating reviews. Partner with finance, actuarial, and analytics functions to drive clarity on the C-SNP growth narrative, guide strategy, and inform operational execution.
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of managers and analysts to execute on strategic priorities, get stuff done (GSD), and overcome operational challenges. Develop self and others while championing the DaVita Way.

Qualifications

• Expertise in the healthcare insurance space, fee for service, value-based care, CSNPs, and member support ecosystems. Preferred
• Strong strategic and analytical acumen with 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.
• 5 to 7 years of progressive experience in healthcare strategy, operations, or program management.
• Demonstrated success executing complex, large-scale initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree Preferred

What We Offer

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita's online training platform StarLearning.

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed Diversity & Belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. As such, individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

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