Sr Director, Strategic Initiatives & Performance

Work at HomeFull-time$150k–$160kPosted Jul 24, 2026

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Sr Director, Strategic Initiatives & Performance

Summary

A Sr Director oversees the activities of key strategic initiatives for Evolent and Evolent partners, including operational execution, risk mitigation, and value optimization.

Essential Functions 

Contribution and Impact:

•       Shape enterprise-wide strategy and influence long-term planning for strategic initiatives, inclusive of medical expense initiatives, clinical programs, and vendor relationships.

•       Coordination across the organization to ensure operational success of initiatives and manage financial risks associated with operations.

•       Accountable owner for gainshare calculations and financial monitoring and forecasting.

Influence and Communication:

•       Presents insights and guides stakeholders in data-driven decision making.

•       Coordinates with key stakeholders internally and externally and ensures strong alignment across Evolent and partner clinical and operational organizations.

•       Communicates complex analyses to internal and external executives.



Strategy & Innovation:


•       Drive innovation through scalable, repeatable solutions.

•       Evaluates input from analytics reporting, medical economics, subject matter experts to make recommendations and strategic decisions on potential future and existing initiatives.

Leadership:

•       Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications 

•       Bachelor’s degree.

•       10+ years of related experience, with at least 5 to 7 years of healthcare experience.

•       Experience with financial analyses, forecasting, or actuarial analysis.

•       Outstanding communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization as well as with Evolent partners.

•       Demonstrable skill in navigating ambiguity and driving clarity for team that supports strategic initiatives.

•       Thrives in dynamic environments that require flexibility and critical thinking.

•       Collaborative working style with the ability to work across different organizations and personalities.

•       Ability to multitask, priorities, adapt to change, and manage a project from start to finish.

 

Preferred Qualifications 

•     Experience with value-based analyses or Medicaid.

•       Experience with finding and executing savings initiatives, including quantification and monitoring.

Preferred Education

•       Bachelor's degree with a quantitative (e.g., actuarial, statistics, operations research, engineering, mathematics, economics, finance), healthcare (e.g., health administration, epidemiology, public health, biology), or technology (e.g., computer science,

Preferred Certifications

•       Associate of the Society of Actuaries or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries    

General Performance Criteria

As a Sr Director, Analytics, you will be required to fulfill your responsibilities while meeting the following general performance criteria for this position at this level: 

Expertise: You research, create proof of concepts, and introduce new methods.

 

Communication: You are a facilitator, delegator, and collaborator across team members reporting to other teams.

 

Domain: You suggest changes to processes or to the current roadmap for the program you oversee to positively impact the business.

 

System: You evolve systems to support future needs and define the KPIs necessary to monitor.

 

Process: You define new processes w to improve the efficiency of their work, and lead their implementation.

 

Influence: You regularly make an impact across more than just your direct team.

To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router.

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact recruitingteam@evolent.com for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $150,000-160,000. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.

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