Virta Health is on a mission to transform care of metabolic disease and reverse the type 2 diabetes epidemic. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and nearly 70 percent of US adults are overweight. Virta is changing this by helping people improve their metabolic health through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and live diabetes-free. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes in 100M people.

We are recruiting an organized innovator, who will drive clinical initiatives across Virta. We are looking for a cross functional leader who can influence broadly, improving the care we provide to our patients and the outcomes we deliver to our clients. 

This leader will have three main areas of responsibility:

The primary domain of  responsibility will be spearheading clinical initiatives in collaboration with Virta’s team of clinicians and coaches to advance clinical and business impact. Besides the core delivery of healthcare services, the Virta Medical Group (VMG) must drive improvements in care delivery and innovation that allow for scale, assure quality, and deliver clinical outcomes. Invariably, these initiatives require cross functional collaboration. This role will lead initiatives, manage that cross-functional collaboration, and measure impact.

A secondary responsibility (may) include leading a sophisticated key opinion leader program to develop relationships with clinical and scientific influencers across metabolic health and cardiovascular disease.

This leader will also be expected to see a small panel of Virta patients (0.1 FTE).

Although the role will be primary focused on internal Virta activities, this leader will be expected to interface directly with clinical and operational leaders among our clients and prospect organizations. As such, excellent communication skills and the ability to serve as a voice of Virta is essential.

Direct reports may include a manager of medical affairs (for KOL activities) and also potentially teams of full-time RNs who are responsible for Clinical Intake Calls and also for working on the clinical aspects of initiative work.

This role would be a member of the Clinical Leadership Team, reporting to the CMO and working closely with the lead clinicians and the head of the clinical admin team, as well as cross functionally across Virta.

Day-to-day Responsibilities

• Drive change across the Virta clinical organization, coordinating key initiatives to advance and meaningfully impact Virta’s OKRs in the service of our patients and our clients. Key partners will include Virta Lead Clinicians (clinical managers) and stakeholders across the business. Examples of key initiatives include (but are in no way limited to):

  • A robust QA program. Working closely with the Director of Quality and Safety, make sure that Virta clinicians are providing evidence-based care to our patients.

  • New clinical programming: As we launch our GLP-1 prescribing program, coordinate the clinical aspects of this launch, managing enablement within the VMG, metrics and measurement, and advance planning. Coordinating with the leadership of the coaching, product, and commercial teams on program definition, performance guarantees, metrics reporting, and client communication.

  • Medication deprescription: Work with clinicians and our RNs to identify patients eligible for deprescription and coordinate this process, reporting on successes and opportunities internally and to clients.

• Analyze financial, quality, clinical, and operational data to identify gaps and opportunities to deliver value to both patients and clients.

• Collaborate with the Clinical Leadership Team to identify, develop and implement the vision and direction of Virta

• Build culture, set the goals, and help build the team and infrastructure necessary to achieve best-in-class clinical outcomes for our patients

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including clinicians, engineers, and operational leaders, to drive innovation and transformation at scale across the organization; ensuring that solutions are both effective and sustainable

• Build and lead high-performance project management, data, and communication initiatives.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including key opinion leaders, patients, and Virta partners to gather insights, validate innovation and transformation concepts, and ensure their successful adoption through sustainable business models

• Assure alignment, standardization (where appropriate), and collaboration across the firm to drive organizational strategy, growth, and results (Quality/HRO, Experience, Education/Training, Growth & Financial Stewardship)

• Define, develop, evaluate, and pilot new workflows and practice models, which may include the use of innovation and transformation methodologies in care delivery

Qualifications:

• A MD followed by completion of an accredited residency program, ideally with some clinical practice experience after residency.

• Significant experience in clinical operations or care delivery

• Strong analytical skills 

• Experience with clinical transformation or change management 

• As a bonus, M.B.A. or other advanced-level leadership degree or certification

• Exceptional management and organizational skills, likely developed through several years in management or management consulting.

• Leadership skills. At least five years of experience leading others. Someone who has helped their team members develop skills and be successful, and built a vibrant, fun, professional culture.

• At least five years of business experience working in a start-up or related high-growth organization. 

• Project management experience required to develop broad clinical initiatives that require cross-functional collaboration and efficiently implement them at a busy growing company.

• Poise. We are looking for a leader who is comfortable in front of an audience, presents naturally and with authority, and will help build the Virta brand.

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally

• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same

• You prioritize positive impact over busy work

• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience

• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information

• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma

• You take risks and rapidly iterate

As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta’s security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients’ information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $190,121- $218,530 per year.  Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.

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