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About Versant Health
Versant Health is a leading managed vision care company dedicated to making healthy vision a reality for everyone. Through our Davis Vision® and Superior Vision® networks, our purpose is to make healthy vision a reality for everyone by improving access to care and education in the communities we serve. Fueled by our mission to improve members' lives with easy-to-use vision benefits rooted in choice, value, and care, we believe that everyone has the power to become anything they set their sights on.
Position Overview
Versant Health is a visionary and results-oriented Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) to join our Executive Leadership Team. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CSO will lead the development and execution of the organization's long-term strategic vision, growth agenda, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
This executive leader will serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and Board of Directors, providing insight into market trends, growth opportunities, competitive dynamics, strategic investments, partnerships, and emerging healthcare innovations. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, business acumen, analytical rigor, and the ability to translate ideas into measurable business results.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Strategy
Lead the development, execution, and ongoing refinement of the organization's three-to-five-year enterprise strategy in partnership with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
Establish and maintain a comprehensive fact base encompassing market dynamics, competitive trends, customer needs, regulatory developments, healthcare delivery transformation, emerging technologies, and industry economics.
Evaluate strategic opportunities and risks, develop actionable recommendations, and present decision-ready alternatives to executive leadership and the Board of Directors.
Direct the annual enterprise strategic planning process and ensure strategic priorities remain responsive to changing market conditions and business needs.
Partner with Finance to align strategic priorities with financial plans, capital allocation decisions, and long-term investment strategies.
Growth and Portfolio Strategy
Develop and drive enterprise growth strategies across customer segments, products, service lines, markets, geographies, and adjacent business opportunities.
Collaborate with business leaders to identify, assess, and prioritize organic and inorganic growth opportunities.
Evaluate emerging opportunities within commercial and government-sponsored healthcare markets, specialty benefits, healthcare services, digital health, value-based care, care navigation, and alternative funding models.
Establish and oversee a disciplined strategic framework for determining when to build, buy, partner, invest, or divest.
Maintain an enterprise portfolio perspective to ensure effective allocation of capital, resources, and organizational focus.
Corporate Development and Strategic Partnerships
Develop and manage a pipeline of potential acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships that support long-term business objectives.
Lead strategic assessments, business case development, due diligence support, and transaction evaluations in partnership with Finance, Legal, and operational leaders.
Identify external capabilities, technologies, and partnerships that accelerate growth, expand market access, or strengthen competitive differentiation.
Support integration planning, synergy realization, and value capture initiatives for acquisitions and strategic partnerships.
Market Intelligence and Competitive Insights
Build and lead an enterprise-wide market intelligence capability focused on competitors, customers, healthcare trends, regulatory developments, providers, technology disruption, and evolving business…