Associate Vice President – Strategic Growth, Market Opportunity

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee Vizient’s capacity to recognize, evaluate, and prioritize growth opportunities within the Strategic Market Research & Industry Insights division of the Office of Strategy Management.

• Conduct evaluations of organic, inorganic, adjacent, cross-business-unit, and other growth prospects.

• Create, lead, and continuously enhance the process for assessing growth opportunities.

• Actively seek out opportunities based on the Vizient Growth Outlook and address business inquiries.

• Establish opportunity hypotheses, decision questions, scope, evaluation criteria, stakeholders, and the necessary evidence.

• Evaluate client needs, business-unit strategies, products, services, capabilities, data and technology assets, relationships, partnerships, dependencies, overlaps, and enterprise synergies.

• Coordinate input from Market & Client Research, Competitive Intelligence, VGO, internal performance and commercial data, business-unit leaders, Marketing Insights, R&D, Product, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, and other business functions.

• Create comparable assessments that address client need, market attractiveness, competitive dynamics, right to win, strategic fit, solution implications, potential value, investment requirements, risks, trade-offs, and dependencies.

• Utilize a decision framework to recommend whether Vizient should enhance capabilities, enter adjacent markets, collaborate across business units, develop solutions, partner, acquire, defer, or cease activities.

• Develop AI-powered assessment workflows and manage the opportunity pipeline, decision record, and structured transition of prioritized opportunities.

• Partner with Corporate/BU Strategy, Corporate Development, R&D, Product, and business-unit collaborators on strategy formulation, business cases, due diligence, partnerships, and execution.

• Support executive decision-making and convey complex analyses through written communications, presentations, and discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Preferred relevant degree; Master’s Degree is a plus.

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required.

• Familiarity with the U.S. healthcare industry and its stakeholders, healthcare economics, evolving client needs, enterprise strategy, and cross-business-unit operating models.

• Extensive experience in leading healthcare-related growth strategy, market opportunity assessments, portfolio development, or a similar field.

• Proven ability to identify, frame, evaluate, prioritize, and advance organic, adjacent, cross-business-unit, partnership, acquisition, and other enterprise growth opportunities.

• Strong grasp of opportunity evaluation components, including client demand, market attractiveness and trajectory, competitive dynamics, right to win, strategic and solution fit, potential value, investment requirements, risk, timing, and execution dependencies.

• Excellent quantitative and financial skills in market sizing, forecasting, TAM/SAM/SOM, and analyzing internal business and commercial data.

• Capability to translate vague enterprise or business-unit requests into well-defined opportunity hypotheses, assessment scopes, decision criteria, work plans, and actionable recommendations.

• Proficiency in synthesizing market and client research, competitive intelligence, quantitative analyses, and internal performance and commercial data into comparable opportunities, strategic options, trade-offs, and prioritization recommendations.

• Ability to function as a hands-on, AI-enabled leader.

• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for incentives.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunities for personal and professional development.

• An inclusive work environment.