Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity

Role Overview

As the Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity, you will lead Vizient’s capability for identifying, assessing, and informing the prioritization of growth opportunities within the Strategic Market Research & Industry Insights (SMRII) function in the Office of Strategy Management (OSM).

What You Will Do

You will design, lead, and continuously improve the growth-opportunity assessment process, including proactively identifying opportunities based on VGO and responding to business requests to explore new opportunities.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will assess the broader organizational connectivity of each opportunity, including relevant client needs, business-unit strategies, existing products and services, capabilities, data and technology assets, client relationships, partnerships, dependencies, overlaps, and potential enterprise synergies.

Requirements

• Relevant degree preferred; Master’s Degree preferred.
• 10 or more years relevant experience required.
• Knowledge of the U.S. healthcare industry and its stakeholders, healthcare economics, evolving client needs, enterprise strategy, and cross-business-unit operating models;
• Significant experience leading healthcare related growth strategy, market opportunity assessments, portfolio development, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, frame, evaluate, prioritize, and advance organic, adjacent, cross-business-unit, partnership, acquisition, and other enterprise growth opportunities.
• Strong understanding of opportunity evaluation elements, 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.
• Strong quantitative and financial fluency in market sizing, forecasting, TAM/SAM/SOM, and internal business and commercial data;
• Ability to translate ambiguous enterprise or business-unit requests into clearly defined opportunity hypotheses, assessment scopes, decision criteria, workplans, and actionable recommendations, while recognizing organizational connectivity, overlaps, dependencies, and synergies.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize 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 operate as a hands-on, AI-enabled leader who personally designs and delivers high-priority assessments, builds repeatable workflows and decision standards, facilitates executive decisions, and communicates complex analyses clearly in writing, presentations, and discussions;
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid holidays
• Vacation time
• Sick leave
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• 401(k) plan
• Stock options
• Bonus/commission
• Equity
• Incentive eligible