Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient is seeking an Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity to lead growth assessments across the organization, from identifying opportunities to governance. The role is based in Irving, TX, with potential placements in Chicago or Centennial.

You will design AI-enabled workflows, coordinate cross-functional teams, and translate evidence into decision-ready insights to inform strategy, partnerships and execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years relevant experience in healthcare strategy or growth roles.
• Knowledge of U.S. healthcare industry and client needs.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for executives.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead growth-opportunity assessment processes across Vizient units.
• Coordinate contributions from Market & Client Research, Competitive Intelligence, and Product teams.
• Develop comparable assessments based on client need, market attractiveness, and trajectory.
• Establish AI-enabled workflows and maintain the opportunity pipeline for leadership decisions.
• Translate evidence into decision-ready insights and inform strategy, partnerships and execution.

Education

Master’s Degree preferred

Relevant degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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We value our talented employees and instill an environment where you feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute your unique skills and talents while living and working as your authentic self. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

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Your Role at Vizient:

As the Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity you will lead Vizient’s capability for identifying, assessing, and informing the prioritization of growth opportunities within the Strategic Market Research & Industry Insights (SMRII) function in the Office of Strategy Management (OSM). Your work will encompass both proactive opportunity identification and business-unit generated opportunities. You’ll serve as the primary accountable lead for assessing a broad portfolio of organic, inorganic, adjacent, cross-business-unit and other growth opportunities. You will establish a repeatable, AI-enabled assessment process that integrates evidence from Market & Client Research, Strategic Competitive Intelligence, the Vizient Growth Outlook (VGO) and relevant business-unit context. You will translate this evidence into comparable assessments, producing decision-ready insights and informing which opportunities to advance, defer, or stop. As the AVP you will coordinate the structured handoff of selected opportunities to Corporate/BU Strategy, Corporate Development, and relevant business-unit partners for formal strategy development, business-cases, diligence, partnership, and/or execution.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, lead and continuously improve the growth-opportunity assessment process, including proactively identifying opportunities based on VGO and responding to business requests to explore new opportunities.
• Serve as the primary accountable lead for integrated opportunity assessments, defining the opportunity, decision questions, scope, evaluation criteria, stakeholders, and required evidence.
• Assess the broader organizational connectivity of each opportunity, including relevant client needs, business-unit strategies, existing products and services, capabilities, data and technology assets, client relationships, partnerships, dependencies, overlaps, and potential enterprise synergies.
• Coordinate contributions from Market & Client Research, Competitive Intelligence, VGO, internal performance and commercial data, business-unit leaders, Marketing Insights, R&D, Product, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development and other parts of the business as needed to fully inform opportunity assessments.
• Develop comparable assessments based on client need, market attractiveness and trajectory, competitive dynamics, Vizient’s right to win, strategic fit, solution implications, potential value, investment requirements, risks, trade-offs, and dependencies, using validated inputs.
• Apply a decision framework (e.g., scale, stretch, systematize, and sequence/stop) to facilitate leadership decisions and recommendations on where Vizient should deepen existing capabilities, extend into adjacent spaces, coordinate across business units, develop new solutions, partner, acquire, defer, or discontinue activity.
• Establish repeatable, AI-enabled assessment workflows and maintain the opportunity pipeline, decision record, and structured handoff of prioritized opportunities to Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development and/or Business partners for formal strategy development, business-case development, diligence, partnership, or execution.

Your Location:

The role is located at our corporate headquarters in Irving, TX or our facilities in Chicago, IL or Centennial, CO.

What You’ll Bring:

• Relevant degree preferred; Master’s Degree preferred.
• 10 or more years relevant experience required.
• Knowledge of the U.S. healthcare industry and its stakeholders, healthcare economics, evolving client needs, enterprise strategy, and cross-business-unit operating models; understands the relationships among products, services, capabilities, data, technology, partnerships, and markets.
• Significant experience leading healthcare related growth strategy, market opportunity assessments, portfolio development, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, frame, evaluate, prioritize, and advance organic, adjacent, cross-business-unit, partnership, acquisition, and other enterprise growth opportunities.
• Strong understanding of opportunity evaluation elements, including client demand, market attractiveness and trajectory, competitive dynamics, right to win, strategic and solution fit, potential value, investment requirements, risk, timing, and execution dependencies.
• Strong quantitative and financial fluency in market sizing, forecasting, TAM/SAM/SOM, and internal business and commercial data; able to interpret outputs, challenge assumptions, and assess opportunity scale, growth potential, and investment implications without owning the underlying model architecture.
• Ability to translate ambiguous enterprise or business-unit requests into clearly defined opportunity hypotheses, assessment scopes, decision criteria, workplans, and actionable recommendations, while recognizing organizational connectivity, overlaps, dependencies, and synergies.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize market and client research, competitive intelligence, quantitative analyses, and internal performance and commercial data into comparable opportunities, strategic options, trade-offs, and prioritization recommendations; effective in leading cross-functional work with Marketing Insights, R&D, Product, business-unit leaders, Corporate/BU Strategy, and Corporate Development.
• Ability to operate as a hands-on, AI-enabled leader who personally designs and delivers high-priority assessments, builds repeatable workflows and decision standards, facilitates executive decisions, and communicates complex analyses clearly in writing, presentations, and discussions; strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Career Framework:

Executive - Associate VP (E1)

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.

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