Senior Director, Healthcare Operations & Implementation

Ovation Healthcare; Nebraska; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ovation Healthcare is seeking a Senior Director of Operations & Implementation (ruralMED) to translate business priorities into coordinated execution across Sales, Implementation, Client Success, and internal teams. You will strengthen alignment, provide structure and accountability, and drive growth with clients and networks.

The role requires strong business acumen, executive presence, project leadership, and the ability to influence across multiple teams without direct authority, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Healthcare Administration, Project Management, or related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 8–10 years of progressive experience in healthcare operations, supply chain, consulting, client implementation, project management, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional projects or client implementations.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a strategic and operational partner to the executive team supporting key business priorities and initiatives.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, timelines, ownership, and measurable outcomes while facilitating alignment across leadership and key internal & external partners.
• Identify emerging risks, issues, and dependencies and provide analyses, recommendations, and updates to support clients, networks, and leadership decision-making.
• Prepare analyses, updates, recommendations, and materials that support leadership discussions and decision-making.
• Lead complex projects for new and existing clients, including project plans, milestones, deliverables, risks, and accountabilities.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution and continuity from sales through implementation, stabilization, and transition to ongoing account management.
• Lead client network status meetings, progress updates, issue resolution, and escalation of significant implementation risks.
• Identify opportunities to improve services, tools, workflows, and handoffs and develop scalable practices that improve the current and future offerings.
• Support strategic initiatives and continuous improvement efforts within the business line, using implementation and performance data to identify risks and improvement opportunities.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Project management

Client relationship management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Presentation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration

Master's degree

Job description

Ovation Healthcare is seeking a Senior Director of Operations & Implementation (ruralMED) to translate business priorities into coordinated execution across Sales, Implementation, Client Success, and internal teams. You will strengthen alignment, provide structure and accountability, and drive growth with clients and networks.

The role requires strong business acumen, executive presence, project leadership, and the ability to influence across multiple teams without direct authority, ensuring