Director, Clinical Programs

DaVita Kidney Care; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

DaVita Kidney Care is seeking a Clinical Program Director to shape and manage strategic clinical initiatives and enhance patient care through innovative solutions. This remote role involves leading teams, aligning clinical strategies with business goals, and supporting interdisciplinary collaboration to foster quality improvements. Ideal candidates will possess a strong operational background and exceptional communication skills to succeed in this influential position.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision

401(k) match

Paid time off and PTO cash out

Family resources and EAP counseling

Access to backup childcare

Qualifications

• Operational experience in healthcare management.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills.
• Leadership experience managing diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Direct clinical strategy and manage clinical program leaders.
• Analyze business models and guide strategic decision-making.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Critical thinking

Strategic synthesis

Cross-functional collaboration

Exceptional communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Posting Date

06/19/2025 2000 16th St,Denver,Colorado,80202-5117,United States of America

The Clinical Program Director directs the overall clinical strategy, portfolio of clinical solutions, outcomes and tracking for specified clinical program and manages leaders of clinical programs. This includes trend management, key capabilities, specialty programs including client relationships to both internal and external stakeholders. This position will help develop overall tactical and strategic goals that align with its mission and values. This role will also support other senior leadership in presenting program results and solutions to clients.

Provide Renal Clinical Innovation vision: Work to shape the vision for Clinical Innovation that will enable us to deliver high quality patient care and demonstrate difference in quality and outcomes.

This is a remote role.

• Identify and communicate risks and opportunities and generate plans to address each
• Develop, analyze, and communicate business models to guide business decisions, promoting data-driven strategic change
• Build out and subsequently manage strategic and enterprise planning team daily and lead enterprise-wide strategy meetings
• Lead strategic and enterprise planning, and set and advocate for internal and external goals
• Define, track, and communicate metrics around new initiatives, comparing to previous outcomes
• Proven ability to synthesize large amounts of data into critical insights, observations or trends and translate them into strategic recommendations
• Ability to project manage and streamline communication across multidisciplinary teams both large and small

Cultivating Networks:

Initiates and maintains strategic relationships with stakeholders inside and outside of the Village (e.g., physicians, cross-functional partners, community representatives) to advance clinical and financial goals.

• Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and communication methods to influence and build effective relationships
• Proactively builds and uses key relationships to gain cooperation without formal authority
• Supports partners by offering valuable information and resources; works together with partners to create win-win outcomes
• Establishes and gains commitment to shared goals
• Formulates influence strategy; creates an approach that best positions an idea, plan or objective; leverages supportive factors, break through barriers and addresses the unique needs and preferences of key decision makers

Identify, create, monitor, and maintain key performance indicators including but not limited to teammate productivity, quality audits, and departmental service level agreements

Driving Execution:

Evaluate department processes and procedures; suggest and implement methods to minimize labor costs and to improve operations, efficiency, and service to internal and external customers.

Translates strategic priorities into operational reality; aligns communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.

• Takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required and manages competing priorities
• Sets high goals for personal and team accomplishments and uses measurement methods to monitor progress toward goal attainment
• Establishes two-way communication channels to convey business strategies and plans in a manner that engages teammates
• Ensures that those responsible for implementing a strategic initiative have role clarity and accountability for required actions and outputs as well as the authority to act in a way consistent with our mission and values
• Translates initiatives into actions; delivers on the core business drivers (clinical and financial)

Provide leadership to direct reports through exhibiting DaVita’s core values. Develop leadership activities to help empower and grow future leaders within reporting lane. Mentor and conduct 1 on 1’s with direct reports

High Impact Communication:

Clearly and succinctly conveys information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; Communicates in a focused and compelling way that drives others' thoughts and actions.

• Presents ideas, suggestions, and recommendations in a manner that clearly links to business and/or Village needs and priorities
• Facilitates outcome-oriented communication
  • States action-oriented purpose
  • Presents logical arguments, data, and concrete examples
  • Provides clear explanation of relevant facts and presents well-prepared case
  • Moves communication toward agreed-upon actions
  • Answers the question at hand
• Adapts communication style based on the people involved and the target objectives
• Negotiates with others using business rationale to influence decisions and effectively handle objections
• Manage departmental labor budget and miscellaneous expenses
• Other duties as assigned

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, TRAINING, OR QUALIFICATIONS

Overview: Serve as a strategic partner to the PharmaOps VP, and support programs and processes to enable our ability to drive overall pharmaceutical operations for DVA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identifying opportunities to optimize and standardize Pharma Operational processes and working to design and implement programs to support
• Leading a team of Clinical and operational professionals
• Manage key pharmaceutical company partnerships and implementation of ongoing related initiative efforts
• Partner with cross-functional teams to optimizeprocesses and support enterprise-wide objectives.
• The ideal candidate will be a versatile leader who possesses strong, strategic thinking, effective storytelling/ presentation, and team collaboration skills

Required Competencies

• Bachelor's degree is required. MBA is preferred
• Operational experience
• Critical thinking and strategic synthesis
• Ability to analyze data with action planning skills to adjust approach based on what is seen
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
• Exceptional communication skills and an enterprise-wide perspective
• Experience in leading and directing various teams
• Knowledge and experience with suite of Microsoft office applications
• Presentation and public speaking experience

What We’ll Provide:

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace , backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

Salary/ Wage Range

$110,100.00-$161,700.00 / year If a candidate is hired, they will be paid at least the minimum wage according to their geographical jurisdiction and the exemption status for the position. • New York Exempt: • New York City and Long Island: $64,350.00/year • Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $64,350.00/year • Remainder of New York state: $60,405.80/year New York Non-exempt: • New York City and Long Island: $16.50/hour • Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $16.50/hour • Remainder of New York state: $15.50/hour Washington Exempt: $77,968.80/year Washington Non-exempt: • Bellingham: $17.66/hour • Burien: $21.16/hour • Unincorporated King County: $20.29/hour • Renton: $20.90/hour • Seattle: $20.76/hour • Tukwila: $21.10/hour • Remainder of Washington state: $16.66/hour

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.