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The Clinical Innovation Delivery Lead supports execution of priority Clinical Innovation initiatives by coordinating implementation activities, monitoring progress, managing risks, and driving accountability across matrixed teams. This role serves as a delivery integrator for assigned initiatives and helps translate enterprise priorities into implemented and sustainable outcomes.
The Clinical Innovation Delivery Lead is responsible for day-to-day coordination and execution of one or more Clinical Innovation initiatives. The Lead owns execution management for assigned initiatives and helps ensure implementation stays on track.
Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining work plans, coordinating stakeholders, facilitating meetings, tracking milestones and dependencies, managing risks and issues, supporting regional adoption, and communicating progress to leadership. The Lead works closely with Clinical, Operations, Pharmacy, Stars, MRA, Finance, Technology, and Regional partners to move opportunities from approval through implementation, adoption, and transition to enduring ownership.
Success in this role requires strong program management discipline, collaboration skills, problem-solving ability, and comfort working in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities. The successful candidate creates structure, drives follow-through, and helps remove barriers that impede delivery.
Responsibilities:
Drive Initiative Execution
Lead day-to-day implementation activities for assigned Clinical Innovation initiatives.
Develop and maintain delivery plans, milestones, workstreams, risks, dependencies, and status reporting.
Coordinate execution activities across functional and regional stakeholders.
Raise risks, barriers, and decision needs in a timely manner.
Coordinate Cross-Functional Teams
Using judgement engage and facilitate alignment across Clinical, Pharmacy, Stars, MRA, Operations, Finance, Technology, and Regional partners as needed per initiative.
Support accountability by tracking commitments and deliverables.
Organize and facilitate working sessions, implementation meetings, and progress reviews.
Promote adoption of standardized implementation methods and tools.
Support Regional Integration and Adoption
Partner with Regional teams to support implementation planning and execution.
Track adoption, outcomes, and implementation challenges.
Share lessons learned and leading practices across initiatives.
Support transition of completed work into ongoing business ownership.
Governance, Reporting, and Communication
Prepare status updates, dashboards, and leadership materials.
Track actions, decisions, dependencies, and outcomes.
Support governance forums through meeting coordination and follow-up.
Communicate initiative progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
7 or more years of experience in healthcare operations, program delivery, project management, consulting and/or business operations
Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional projects or initiatives
Strong planning, organization, and execution management skills
Ability to influence and collaborate across a matrixed organization
Demonstrated ability to articulate ideas effectively in both written and oral forms
Ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities
Preferred Qualifications
MBA, MHA, MPH, or other relevant advanced degree
Experience supporting enterprise implementation, transformation, or performance-improvement initiatives.
Experience working across Clinical, Stars, MRA, Pharmacy, Operations, Market, or Regional teams.
Experience supporting governance forums, executive reporting, and stakeholder management.
Additional Information
Willing to travel based on business need.
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