Senior Director, Network Development & Contracting

centene; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene is seeking a Senior Director of Network Development & Contracting to lead contracting, network strategy, and implementation across multiple product lines. The role focuses on strategic leadership, negotiation of major provider contracts, budgeting, and cross‑functional collaboration to optimize network performance and affordability.

The candidate should have extensive experience in healthcare contracting, market development, and leadership, with ability to drive initiatives in diverse

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of related contracting or healthcare operations experience.
• Experience establishing new markets including the development of the strategy and oversight of the implementation.

Responsibilities

• Direct the evaluation, review, negotiations and ongoing management of product‑specific contracts and amendments between health plan and vendors
• Work with business development and providers to develop a strategy for developing new networks including plans to meet network access and unit cost objectives
• Determine necessary resources to develop the network and assemble the appropriate team across all business functions.
• Complete development of budget in alignment with Centene network management and financial objectives
• Support the new business launch in diverse markets while considering individual market circumstances, provider community, budgeting constraints and available resources
• Lead the network development specialists during the implementation and development stages
• Monitor performance, develop, and implement business solutions to address process and quality gaps.
• Communicate with senior management and other Centene leaders regarding network strategy and planning
• Complete negotiations with complex and major provider contracts as needed to support network objectives

Skills

Contracting

Network development

Leadership

Negotiations

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration

Job description

Centene is seeking a Senior Director of Network Development & Contracting to lead contracting, network strategy, and implementation across multiple product lines. The role focuses on strategic leadership, negotiation of major provider contracts, budgeting, and cross‑functional collaboration to optimize network performance and affordability.

The candidate should have extensive experience in healthcare contracting, market development, and leadership, with ability to drive initiatives in diverse