Associate Vice President, Market & Client Research

Vizient, Inc; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 157,000 - 290,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Vizient, Inc in Irving, TX seeks an Associate Vice President for Market & Client Research to lead the SMRII function and deliver high-priority research, including the Vizient Market Outlook and strategic briefs.

You will design and execute primary and secondary studies, synthesize evidence, and communicate implications for strategic decisions. A Master’s degree and 10+ years in healthcare research are preferred.

Qualifications

• 10+ years relevant experience required.
• Broad and deep knowledge of the U.S. healthcare industry and stakeholders.
• Significant experience delivering primary and secondary market research.
• Advanced knowledge of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research.
• Ability to translate strategic questions into researchable questions and deliver.
• Synthesize diverse analyses into clear implications for strategy.
• Hands‑on player‑coach delivering high‑priority research.
• Experience using AI-enabled research tools and validating AI sources.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the market research fact base and framework for major deliverables.
• Translate evidence into trends, questions, risks, and implications for decisions.
• Ground research in rigorous methods and aligned with other research functions.
• Lead end-to-end design and execution of primary and secondary research.
• Collaborate with Marketing Insights and Product to assess client needs.
• Integrate trends into a coherent healthcare market perspective.
• Lead readouts and decision-support sessions for leadership.
• Provide research foundations for opportunity assessments and scenario planning.
• Establish research quality standards and AI-enabled workflows.

Skills

Market research

Healthcare industry knowledge

Primary & secondary research

AI-enabled research tools

Executive presentation

Synthesis & communication

Quantitative methods

Qualitative methods

Stakeholder collaboration

Team leadership

Education

Master’s degree preferred

Relevant degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

AI research tools

Job description

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Your Role at Vizient

As the Associate Vice President, Market & Client Research you will lead Vizient’s market and client research capability within the Office of Strategy Management (OSM) Strategic Market Research & Industry Insights (SMRII) function and personally deliver the function’s highest-priority research. You will establish the research agenda and lead the design, execution, synthesis, and communication of secondary research along with targeted primary and quantitative studies, on healthcare markets, client needs, market drivers, demand, emerging opportunities, and strategic uncertainties. Drawing on your broad knowledge of the healthcare industry, you will connect economic, policy, provider, payer, life sciences, workforce, technology, market-structure, and client signals into a coherent market perspective and personally author or quality-assure major deliverables, including the Vizient Market Outlook (VMO), Environmental Assessment, strategic briefs, and client-needs updates. You will serve as a senior market research authority, translating evidence into clear implications for strategic decisions and decision-ready deliverables.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and personally deliver the market research fact base, market-driver framework, and integrated market perspective underlying major research deliverables, including the Vizient Market Outlook (VMO), Environmental Assessment, and 3–5+ annual strategic briefs.
• Translate evidence into key trends, strategic questions, trade-offs, risks, and decision implications.
• Ensure the strategic market perspective is grounded in rigorous research, informed by Vizient’s subject matter experts and aligned with other research functions across the organization.
• Lead the end-to-end design, execution, synthesis, and communication of primary and secondary research on healthcare markets, client needs, market drivers, demand, adoption, emerging opportunities, and strategic uncertainties, personally delivering the highest-priority studies, while collaborating across the organization.
• Lead strategy-driven client research in partnership with Marketing Insights and Product where necessary to understand the evolution and prioritization of client needs, identify unmet needs, and assess willingness to adopt.
• Integrate relevant trends and findings into a coherent healthcare market perspective, in partnership with appropriate leaders across the business.
• Lead research readouts and decision-support sessions that help leaders interpret findings, test assumptions, reconcile qualitative and quantitative evidence, and determine next actions.
• Provide the research foundation for integrated opportunity assessments and lead the research inputs to environmental scenario planning.
• Build the research delivery capability by establishing research-quality standards, methodology and source-evaluation protocols, documentation practices and AI-enabled research workflows.

What You’ll Bring

• Relevant degree preferred; Master’s Degree preferred.
• 10 or more years relevant experience required.
• Broad and deep knowledge of the U.S. healthcare industry and its stakeholders, including provider and payer dynamics, reimbursement and policy, life sciences, workforce, care delivery, technology, market structure, healthcare economics, and client needs; demonstrated ability to connect these signals into a coherent market perspective.
• Significant experience leading and directly delivering primary and secondary market research, healthcare industry research, including authoring or substantially contributing to enterprise-level market perspectives, Environmental Assessments, strategic briefs, or comparable deliverables.
• Advanced knowledge of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research, including research design, sampling, interviews, surveys, segmentation, regression or other multivariate methods, and working knowledge of databases and data structures.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic questions into researchable questions and carry research from methodology selection through evidence evaluation, synthesis, and delivery, while identifying bias, confounding, limitations, and data‑quality issues.
• Ability to synthesize diverse internal and external analyses, client signals, and research findings into clear implications for enterprise and business‑unit strategy, solution development, planning, investment, and integrated opportunity assessments.
• Desire to operate as a hands‑on player‑coach who personally delivers high-priority research, builds team capability, manages capacity, establishes trust with leaders, and facilitates evidence‑based decisions.
• Experience using AI-enabled research tools and workflows to improve environmental scanning, secondary research, evidence synthesis, knowledge management, and deliverable development, with the judgment to validate and audit AI-generated sources, methods, analyses, calculations, and conclusions.
• Advanced written, verbal, facilitation, and executive‑presentation skills, with strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Estimated Hiring Range

Estimated Hiring Range: At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $156,500.00 to $290,100.00. This position is also incentive eligible.

Benefits

• Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer

Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

Working at Vizient means shaping the future of healthcare, every day. Alongside our clients, we're building a healthier, more human healthcare system. We connect people, data, and solutions to enable healthcare organizations to improve financial sustainability, enhance system performance, and deliver better care.

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, with 11 offices across the United States, Vizient has more than 5,000 employees who bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to transforming healthcare. Together, we're solving some of the industry's most complex challenges while creating opportunities to learn, grow, and drive lasting change for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve.

Through our enterprise of companies, we deliver meaningful impact across the continuum of care: Apexus - The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration. aptitude - The industry's first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers. Kaufman Hall - Leading healthcare advisory services to support our clients in achieving financial, clinical, and operational excellence. Provista - Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic, and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health, and senior living.