Sr Director, Strategic Initiatives & Performance

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Hiring Remotely in Home, Klouékanmè, Kouffo, BEN
Remote
150K-160K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech
The Role
Lead enterprise strategic initiatives across clinical and operational organizations, manage financial risk and gainshare forecasting, drive data-informed recommendations, and implement scalable solutions while aligning stakeholders and fostering innovation and continuous improvement.
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Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Sr Director, Strategic Initiatives & PerformanceSummary

A Sr Director oversees the activities of key strategic initiatives for Evolent and Evolent partners, including operational execution, risk mitigation, and value optimization.

Essential Functions 

Contribution and Impact:

•       Shape enterprise-wide strategy and influence long-term planning for strategic initiatives, inclusive of medical expense initiatives, clinical programs, and vendor relationships.

•       Coordination across the organization to ensure operational success of initiatives and manage financial risks associated with operations.

•       Accountable owner for gainshare calculations and financial monitoring and forecasting.

Influence and Communication:

•       Presents insights and guides stakeholders in data-driven decision making.

•       Coordinates with key stakeholders internally and externally and ensures strong alignment across Evolent and partner clinical and operational organizations.

•       Communicates complex analyses to internal and external executives.


Strategy & Innovation:


•       Drive innovation through scalable, repeatable solutions.

•       Evaluates input from analytics reporting, medical economics, subject matter experts to make recommendations and strategic decisions on potential future and existing initiatives.

Leadership:

•       Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications 

•       Bachelor’s degree.

•       10+ years of related experience, with at least 5 to 7 years of healthcare experience.

•       Experience with financial analyses, forecasting, or actuarial analysis.

•       Outstanding communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization as well as with Evolent partners.

•       Demonstrable skill in navigating ambiguity and driving clarity for team that supports strategic initiatives.

•       Thrives in dynamic environments that require flexibility and critical thinking.

•       Collaborative working style with the ability to work across different organizations and personalities.

•       Ability to multitask, priorities, adapt to change, and manage a project from start to finish.

 

Preferred Qualifications 

•     Experience with value-based analyses or Medicaid.

•       Experience with finding and executing savings initiatives, including quantification and monitoring.

Preferred Education

•       Bachelor's degree with a quantitative (e.g., actuarial, statistics, operations research, engineering, mathematics, economics, finance), healthcare (e.g., health administration, epidemiology, public health, biology), or technology (e.g., computer science,

Preferred Certifications

•       Associate of the Society of Actuaries or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries    

General Performance Criteria

As a Sr Director, Analytics, you will be required to fulfill your responsibilities while meeting the following general performance criteria for this position at this level: 

Expertise: You research, create proof of concepts, and introduce new methods.


Communication: You are a facilitator, delegator, and collaborator across team members reporting to other teams.


Domain: You suggest changes to processes or to the current roadmap for the program you oversee to positively impact the business.


System: You evolve systems to support future needs and define the KPIs necessary to monitor.


Process: You define new processes w to improve the efficiency of their work, and lead their implementation.


Influence: You regularly make an impact across more than just your direct team.

To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router.

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $150,000-160,000. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 10+ years of related experience, including 5-7 years of healthcare experience
  • Experience with financial analyses, forecasting, or actuarial analysis
  • Outstanding communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity for teams supporting strategic initiatives
  • Thrives in dynamic environments requiring flexibility and critical thinking
  • Collaborative working style with ability to work across organizations and personalities
  • Ability to multitask, prioritize, adapt to change, and manage projects from start to finish
  • High speed internet (over 10 Mbps) at home
  • Experience with value-based analyses or Medicaid
  • Experience finding and executing savings initiatives, including quantification and monitoring
  • Bachelor's degree in quantitative, healthcare, or technology field (preferred)
  • Associate or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (ASA/FSA)

Evolent Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Evolent Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Evolent Health.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Salaried roles commonly include unlimited PTO alongside paid holidays, volunteer time off, and a sabbatical option after several years. Feedback suggests time-off flexibility is a meaningful lifestyle strength for many roles.
  • Healthcare Strength Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with a publicly highlighted emphasis on mental-health resources, including a 2026 Gold Bell Seal from Mental Health America. This recognition signals above-baseline support for employee health needs.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits A remote-first approach for most positions and flexible work arrangements are consistently emphasized. Feedback suggests these elements add notable non-cash value to the overall package.

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The Company
HQ: Arlington, VA
2,581 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Evolent Health delivers proven clinical and administrative solutions that improve whole person health while making health care simpler and more affordable. Our three solutions—Evolent Care Partners, New Century Health and Evolent Health Services—encompass total cost of care management, specialty care management and administrative simplification. Evolent serves a national base of leading payers and providers, is the first company to receive the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Population Health Program Accreditation, and is consistently recognized as a top place to work in health care nationally. OUR PEOPLE We were named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and are proud to be recognized as a leader in driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. Evolent achieved a 100% score on the 2020 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, making us one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ employees. We were also named on the Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020 and 2021 by Parity.org. OUR CULTURE Our accessible leadership team cultivates an open-door environment. We don’t like approval chains; we love ideas and people with the courage and conviction to bring novel solutions forward. We win as a team and always ask how we can do better. We respect and encourage commitments outside of work. OUR COMPENSATION & BENEFITS We recognize and reward our most valuable asset—our team—with competitive pay and annual performance-based bonuses. Evolent also offers comprehensive health benefits, a company-matched 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. Every salaried Evolent employee receives unlimited Personal Time Off and is eligible for a month-long sabbatical after working five years with Evolent. This account is monitored closely by our company. Please message us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

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