Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Aspen Group is a healthcare business support organization partnering with independent practices across dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. The Director, Clinical Strategy & Operations will lead the development and implementation of clinical programs, processes, systems, and strategic initiatives while connecting Clinical Affairs with cross-functional and field teams. The role focuses on identifying adoption barriers, mobilizing resources, optimizing initiatives, and driving accountability across a distributed healthcare network.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Clinical Affairs, doctors, executive leadership, corporate strategy, field leaders and center managers to support the development of deployment approaches for key strategic clinical initiatives
- Identify gaps, constraints, and or roadblocks to adoption and integration of new initiatives; develop interventions at the center, region, division, and network level
- Mobilize internal resources (operations, strategy, field, sales, marketing, legal and compliance, IT) to overcome challenges, ensuring doctors, centers and field teams have support and training needed to fully adopt new treatments, systems, and processes
- Partner with field leadership to hold centers and field teams accountable to achieving adoption and implementation targets
- Liaise with doctors, field teams, operations teams, strategy, analytics, and finance; serve as a lynchpin among these teams to support prioritization of interventions and support
- Identify opportunities for improvement and optimization of key initiatives; recommend pilots, testing, and roadmaps to achieve optimization and performance enhancements of key strategic initiatives; Create compelling business cases for expansion of new programs and processes
- Identify, codify, and disseminate best practices
- Support administration of clinical programs
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree required
- 8+ years of progressive strategy and/or operations management experience in distributed multi-site services, preferably in premium healthcare, consumer/retail facing industries
- Experience in clinical or doctor relationship management
- Demonstrated success partnering in a matrixed environment to implement strategic initiatives within a distributed environment
- Excellent professional written, verbal communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Ability to communicate and interact with diverse constituencies and motivate teams
- Strong analytical and business reporting skills
- Hungry, humble, high emotional IQ, aspirational mindset
- Mission/purpose-driven organization experience
- The ability to conduct up to 25% domestic travel
- The position is based in Chicago, IL, with an expectation of 4 days per week in-office and 1 day remote. Candidates located outside the 35-mile radius of Chicago may be considered, for remote, on a case-by-case basis
- MBA preferred
- 8+ years of progressive strategy and/or operations management experience in distributed multi-site services, preferably in premium healthcare, consumer/retail facing industries
Benefits
- 25% annual bonus
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) savings plan with match
- The position is based in Chicago, IL, with an expectation of 4 days per week in-office and 1 day remote. Candidates located outside the 35-mile radius of Chicago may be considered, for remote, on a case-by-case basis.
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