Senior Director, Strategy Analytics & FFS Leadership

Vizient, Inc.; Cape Girardeau (MO); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior leader to drive the Strategy Intelligence fee-for-service analytics portfolio, owning delivery, staffing, and performance across engagements.

You will shape pricing, staffing, and scope, ensuring contractual commitments and client value while guiding cross-functional teams toward measurable outcomes. You will develop talent, align teams across clinical, operational, and analytics functions, and collaborate with Sales and Integrated Insights to translate

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 10 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Progressive leadership experience across analytics, insights, consulting, healthcare, product, strategy, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading fee-for-service, consulting, or SOW-based client engagements with accountability for scope, pricing, staffing, delivery, financial performance, and client outcomes.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with experience managing revenue, margin, utilization, capacity, and portfolio performance.
• Experience delivering strategy-oriented analytics across market, growth, competitive, financial, or related healthcare domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Strategy Intelligence FFS analytics portfolio with accountability for analytic delivery, operational performance, financial outcomes, contractual adherence, and client value.
• Manage and develop FFS analytic staff, aligning talent, capabilities, staffing, and capacity with portfolio demand, client commitments, delivery quality, and financial objectives.
• Own key FFS performance indicators, including revenue, margin, utilization, quality, client outcomes, and contractual adherence, using performance data and client feedback to continuously improve the service model.
• Partner with Sales to scope, price, package, staff, and deliver Strategy Intelligence FFS engagements, ensuring SOWs clearly define client objectives, analytic activities, deliverables, timelines, resource requirements, and success criteria.
• Oversee SOW-based engagements from scoping through delivery, ensuring work remains aligned with contractual commitments, client objectives, timelines, deliverables, and data governance requirements.
• Lead strategy-oriented analytics across market, growth, competitive, and financial domains, translating complex client objectives into actionable insights, recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
• Align FFS analytic activities across clinical, operational, Dedicated Analyst, Integrated Insights, and analytic development teams to strengthen capabilities, address evolving client needs, and deliver a consistent client experience.
• Partner with Integrated Insights & Client Impact to identify completed FFS analyses that can be transformed into scalable, repeatable, and proactive insight offerings.
• Represent Strategy Intelligence FFS analytics in executive, client-facing, and internal forums, communicating analytic approaches, findings, recommendations, and business value.
• Develop FFS analytic talent, leadership capabilities, career paths, and succession plans while fostering accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, commercial awareness, and client-centered delivery.

Skills

Leadership experience

Analytics leadership

SOW-based engagements

Strategic thinking

Education

Relevant degree

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior leader to drive the Strategy Intelligence fee-for-service analytics portfolio, owning delivery, staffing, and performance across engagements.

You will shape pricing, staffing, and scope, ensuring contractual commitments and client value while guiding cross-functional teams toward measurable outcomes. You will develop talent, align teams across clinical, operational, and analytics functions, and collaborate with Sales and Integrated Insights to translate