The Sr. Director, Clinical Strategy & Market Operations is accountable for designing and scaling clinical initiatives that improve patient outcomes, optimize physician performance, and unlock value through sub-capitated and risk-based partnerships. Primarily responsible to drive the execution of strategic clinical programs — with a focus on Renal, Oncology, and Palliative Care — in collaboration with market teams, clinical leaders, and cross-functional partners. The ideal candidate brings deep operational expertise, an understanding of value-based care for complex senior populations, and the ability to lead across a highly matrixed organization.
Essential Job Functions
• Lead the execution and scaling of enterprise clinical programs in Renal, Oncology, and Palliative Care, ensuring alignment with agilon’s value-based care model and sub[1]capitated risk arrangements
• Set up standard processes to monitor and reconcile sub-capitated program performance • Lead continuous improvement initiatives to streamline operations, ensure compliance and contract adherence, and improve sub-capitated program performance.
• Co-lead the redesign of provider incentives to reward meaningful physician engagement and improved outcomes
• Lead the operationalization of provider incentives to ensure accurate and timely measurement
• Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate and optimize clinical initiatives across new and existing markets, leveraging resources from Finance, Technology, Quality, BOI, Medical Leadership, and Clinical Programs
• Drive effective communication and engagement across stakeholders, clearly articulating program goals, performance results, and areas of opportunity
• Serve as a clinical strategy lead for value-based partnerships, helping shape program design and execution to support sub-capitated payment models and long-term collaboration
• Participate in strategic planning efforts and contribute to long-term visioning for enterprise-wide clinical innovation
• Foster best-practice sharing across markets through agilon Clinical Committees, working groups, and knowledge hubs
• Represent agilon’s clinical strategy in high-visibility conversations with internal and external leadership.
Qualifications:
• 10+ years of experience in healthcare delivery, strategy, or operations, with a strong preference for backgrounds in value-based care or managed care
• Deep knowledge of clinical program development and operations in areas such as Renal Care, Oncology, and Palliative Care
• Experience with provider incentive model design and execution in risk-bearing organizations
• Track record of successfully implementing cross-functional initiatives across complex, matrixed environments
• Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to translate data into action and communicate performance to diverse stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with executive presence and the ability to influence across disciplines
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in healthcare, business, or a clinical field (e.g., MPH, MBA, MHA, RN, MD) strongly preferred
Required Qualifications:
• Passionate about value-based care, the importance of its role in our current healthcare system, and the necessity to achieve these goals through partnership
• 10 years VBC experience in project management, strategy, and ops
• Proven track record developing and launching clinical programs, particularly around value-based initiatives, including program design, quality measures, efficiency
• Robust experience with, and understanding of, practice management/operations
• Strong operational and process management skills
• Previous clinical and/or operational leadership role in value-based programs.
• Experience developing programs for high risk/high complexity patient population strongly preferred
• Effective communicator to practices and individual physicians.
Location is flexible, and significant portion of work can be done remotely with video meetings. Occasional travel to market sites as needed (10-30%)
Location: Remote - OHPay Range: $153,000.00 - $191,300.00Salary range shown is a guideline. Individual compensation packages can vary based on factors unique to each candidate, such as skill set, experience, and qualifications.
Top Skills
What We Do
agilon health is transforming health care for seniors by empowering primary-care physicians to focus on the entire health of their patients. Through our platform and partnership model, agilon health is leading the nation in creating the system we need – one built on the value of care, not the volume of fees. We honor the independence of local physicians and serve as their long-term partner so they can be the physicians they trained to be.
agilon is built for physicians by physicians, as the patient-physician relationship is the cornerstone of care. We allow primary care physicians to take the long view of their relationships with patients, and to be confident in the long-term financial viability of their own practices. We do this through a Total Care Model that maintains the independence of physicians; unites them in a network of like-minded leaders; and integrates all of the components of a global risk business model into a single platform.
