Director, Retrieval Operations & Inventory Strategy

Datavant; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 145,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Director-level leader to own inventory strategy for payer retrieval. You will translate client demand into weekly and daily plans, balancing capacity, yield, and cost while driving data-driven decisions.

You will partner with Operations, Workforce, Product, Engineering, Analytics, and vendors to optimize inventory flow, define governance, and deliver measurable improvements in service levels and cost efficiency across multi-channel retrieval.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, analytics, or related field.
• Eight+ years in operations, inventory planning, forecasting, or related field.
• At least three years leading teams.
• Experience translating forecasts into production and capacity plans.
• Strong financial and analytical skills; ability to influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the inventory strategy and planning for Payer Retrieval.
• Establish forecasting, segmentation, and prioritization strategies.
• Route inventory across channels based on provider behavior, capacity, cost, and client requirements.
• Evaluate channel and partner performance to improve outcomes and reduce costs.
• Monitor performance against commitments and lead recovery planning.
• Partner with staffing to align demand with capacity.
• Support annual planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and governance routines.
• Collaborate with BI and Analytics to deliver actionable reporting.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Inventory Strategy team.

Skills

Inventory planning

Forecasting

Leadership

Data analysis

Vendor management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Director-level leader to own inventory strategy for payer retrieval. You will translate client demand into weekly and daily plans, balancing capacity, yield, and cost while driving data-driven decisions.

You will partner with Operations, Workforce, Product, Engineering, Analytics, and vendors to optimize inventory flow, define governance, and deliver measurable improvements in service levels and cost efficiency across multi-channel retrieval.