Vice President, New Ventures

Job Description

It’s time for a change...and a unique opportunity to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of Americans!

Founded in 2002, New Century Health has been on the cutting edge of value-based innovation for decades as the nation's foremost specialty care management company, specializing in managing cancer and cardiology patients for both payers and risk-based providers. Formerly backed by Water Street Partners, the company was acquired by Evolent Health in 2018 and has scaled tremendously since.

Specifically, New Century Health provides physicians with clinical decision and population health management tools to ensure that their patients receive the highest quality, most affordable care. These best-in-class tools, which have earned the business URAC accreditation in Health Utilization Management and NCQA accreditation in Utilization Management, consistently drive clinical and financial improvements for the two most complex and expensive diseases in the nation. This commitment to excellence has helped spur our success and put us on track to surpass record-breaking year-over-year growth in the coming years.

The Role in Brief and Who You’ll Be Working With

Building on its recent track record, New Century Health is now looking for an executive leader to drive discontinuous innovation and growth. Your unique ‘Horizon 3’ mandate will be to create meaningful new capabilities, service offerings, and businesses that extend our market leadership in oncology and cardiovascular specialty care management. This is a rare opportunity for an entrepreneurial ‘strategic operator’ to create and scale new ventures that have a dramatic social impact within a vibrant, mission-driven culture. Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy, you will regularly interact with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, in addition to colleagues from Product and Engineering, Clinical, Business Development, Operations, and Account Management. You will lead myriad external discussions with existing and prospective clients and partners and cultivate a scrappy, high-performance team to execute this exciting mandate.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Solidifying and prioritizing the most promising terrains to take advantage of disruptive opportunities and/or to counter emerging threats
• Defining a long-term, compelling vision for how New Century Health establishes distinctive market leadership in those terrains and creates outsized benefits for clients and partners
• Developing a ‘here-to-there’ plan that drives rapid value and enables continuous learning and refinement
• Enfranchising multiple stakeholders and building strong business cases for product investments, partnerships, and/or M&A
• Rolling up your sleeves to make it happen – executing on initial ventures/concepts, supporting initial sales, hiring, and implementation activities, and scaling those with promise
• Managing your portfolio to hit specific growth targets
• Recruiting and managing a high-performance team
• Promoting the value of innovation and strengthening internal capabilities

The Experience You’ll Need (Required)

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Previous experience with payer/provider/healthcare sector
• 10+ years of consulting, strategy, product or business development experience
• Proven track record of new business building

Finishing Touches (Preferred)

• Strong drive to see right answer concepts realized in nature
• Intense curiosity and an abhorrence for ‘ivory tower’ product development
• Ability and desire to see the forest (industry forces, emerging threats) and the trees (specific workflow needs of new user personas)
• Unparalleled talent for rapid root cause analysis and creative problem-solving
• Unique ability to simultaneously balance ‘bull’ and ‘bear’ perspectives on any new concept, recognizing that it will only happen if you push it, but that you should not fall in love with anything still unproven
• Willingness to roll up sleeves and be scrappy
• Experience managing and coaching more junior team members
• Experience engaging others in consultative conversations, ability to be convincing when necessary, and ability to develop strong relationships through each interaction
• Fluency with pro forma development and financial modeling
• Evidence of strong collaboration and teamwork
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to independently manage against short-term and long-term goals
• MBA or other advanced degree

Technical Requirements

Evolent allows employees work remotely for many of our positions. For those working remotely, 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 Health 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. Evolent Health maintains a drug-free workplace.
Evolent has been named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and are proud to be recognized as a leader in driving important Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) efforts. Evolent achieved a 95% score on its first-ever submission to the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, was named on the Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020 by Parity.org, and we publish an annual Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report to share our progress on how we’re building an equitable workplace. We recognize employees that live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing our whole selves to work each day. If you’re looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, don’t just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.
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