Datavant is a rapidly growing healthcare technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data. By eliminating data silos in the healthcare industry, we aim to unlock opportunities to accelerate medical research, and help organizations design better ways to facilitate access, affordability, and quality of care leading to better patient outcomes.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, fully remote team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We look for people who are smart, nice and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team (no office locations) and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs -- learn more here! 

As a Senior Continuous Improvement leader, you will build and drive portfolio management processes for the business transformation team. This will include coordinating the intake, assessment, and review of new opportunities as well as providing summary level reporting of project activity in the portfolio from initiation to benefit realization. This is an incredible opportunity to be a critical player in Datavant’s growing business to better equip patients and healthcare professionals with the information they need to optimize care.

You Will:

• Establish and coordinate project portfolio management capability for the business transformation team
• Identify and implement project intake and portfolio management process, procedures, and tools
• Facilitate project backlog refinement and prioritization to ensure alignment with business owners
• Develop dashboard, reporting/visualization to measure project progress and benefit realization
• Build and lead cross-functional and virtual project teams, including members of business/functional staff and external vendors
• Monitor and communicate results of process improvement initiatives to management and executive leadership
• Deliver results to achieve project targets in operational, financial, customer satisfaction, or employee satisfaction improvement objectives
• Communicate to and influence stakeholders of all levels 
• Develop and maintain productive customer, staff, and management relationships through individual contacts and group meetings
• Leverage change management frameworks to foster inclusion, preparation, and adoption of improvements 
• Participate in the propagation of process improvement methodologies/tools across the business unit through the delivery of training and other informal sessions 
• Function as an ambassador and change agent for process improvement to build a culture of continuous improvement, foster adoption of tools and methods 

You Will Bring to the Table: 

• 7+ years process improvement experience ideally within highly transactional/operations type environments 
• Experience establishing and coordinating project portfolio reviews; and establishing light governance structures 
• Experience with configuring/implementing PPM tools, reporting, and data insights
• Proficiency using/configuring Smartsheet 
• Strong working knowledge of process improvement methodologies: Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, A3, RCA, etc. 
• Proven history of results from the application of process improvement methodologies and effective change leadership 
• Strong financial (P&L) understanding and business acumen required: cost benefit analysis and presenting project business cases to senior leaders 
• Strong leadership and people skills. Demonstrated ability to motivate, influence and gain commitment at all levels of the organization. 
• Strong facilitation and communication skills; ability to communicate complex matters in a simple, understandable format. 
• Flexible, results oriented, and ability to navigate a high demand pragmatic operations environment.

Bonus Points if:

• Experience in a health care environment, RHIT, RHIA 
• Experience leading or managing virtual matrixed teams including leading projects across functional boundaries highly preferred

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are smart, nice, and get things done where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices. We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact and less by title. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $80,000-150,000.

Even though this is a remote role, you may need to travel onsite. To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. We can only see aggregate responses and are unable to view individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not! Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.