Remote Strategic Healthcare Data Partnerships Manager

Protege; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege is hiring a Strategic Partnerships Manager for Healthcare Administrative & Operations Data. You will work remotely with teams across Commercial, Data Lab, Privacy, Legal, and Operations to source and qualify healthcare workflow data for AI training and operational use.

Focus is on administrative and operational datasets, covering enrollment, claims, scheduling, credentialing, and related workflows. You will drive NDA, diligence, and contracting, with a strong emphasis on privacy, data

Qualifications

• Experience in partnerships, business development, strategic sourcing, enterprise sales, marketplace development, procurement, healthcare operations.
• Track record of taking ambiguous opportunities to concrete plans with stakeholders.
• Strong commercial judgment and ability to say no when the fit is weak.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer and prospect needs into clear healthcare data sourcing briefs including workflow, population, modality, data elements, granularity, volume, format, geography, time period, refresh cadence, use case, rights requirements, and success criteria.
• Build a map of healthcare administrative and operations data supply including health systems, provider groups, payers, TPAs, MSOs, RCM companies, healthcare technology vendors, digital health companies, call centers, laboratories, pharmacies, data aggregators, brokers, and partners.
• Source and build trusted relationships with organizations that hold operational healthcare data and can articulate provenance, permissions, quality, and delivery model.
• Run partner discovery and qualification conversations to understand workflow, data generation, what events it represents, how linked, fields available, and transformations applied.
• Evaluate whether a dataset reflects real operational work including queues, decisions, handoffs, and longitudinal context where appropriate.
• Assess privacy, security, and rights considerations early, including PHI/PII exposure, de‑identification, consent, data‑use agreements, and data‑sharing restrictions.
• Prioritize opportunities based on demand, strategic value, data quality, rights posture, and delivery readiness.
• Own partner progression from first conversation through NDA, privacy diligence, Data Lab evaluation, contracting, activation, and handoff.
• Coordinate with Commercial, Data Lab, Solutions, Privacy, Security, Legal, Product, and Operations to move opportunities quickly and avoid risks.
• Support deals by finding viable data paths and aligning stakeholders on next steps.
• Help structure partnerships including licensing, channel, co‑development, exclusivity, and data contribution terms.
• Maintain current view of partner capabilities, data elements, qualification status, and commercial readiness in systems of record.
• Develop repeatable healthcare data qualification workflows, privacy checklists, sample review standards, and handoff requirements.
• Provide market intelligence on healthcare data demand and partner economics to leadership.
• Build trusted relationships with partners ensuring clear communication and value delivery.

Skills

Partnerships

Business development

Strategic sourcing

Enterprise sales

Marketplace development

Procurement

Healthcare operations

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Protege is hiring a Strategic Partnerships Manager for Healthcare Administrative & Operations Data. You will work remotely with teams across Commercial, Data Lab, Privacy, Legal, and Operations to source and qualify healthcare workflow data for AI training and operational use.

Focus is on administrative and operational datasets, covering enrollment, claims, scheduling, credentialing, and related workflows. You will drive NDA, diligence, and contracting, with a strong emphasis on privacy, data