[Hiring] Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity @Vizient

Role Description

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). Your work will encompass both proactive opportunity identification and business-unit generated opportunities.

You’ll serve as the primary accountable lead for assessing a broad portfolio of organic, inorganic, adjacent, cross-business-unit and other growth opportunities. You will establish a repeatable, AI-enabled assessment process that integrates evidence from Market & Client Research, Strategic Competitive Intelligence, the Vizient Growth Outlook (VGO) and relevant business-unit context. You will translate this evidence into comparable assessments, producing decision-ready insights and informing which opportunities to advance, defer, or stop.

As the AVP you will collaborate across the business to advance strategic growth priorities working with Corporate/BU Strategy, Corporate Development, R&D, Product and relevant business-unit partners for formal strategy development, business-cases, diligence, partnership, and/or execution.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• 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.
• Serve as the primary accountable lead for integrated opportunity assessments, defining the opportunity, decision questions, scope, evaluation criteria, stakeholders, and required evidence.
• 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.
• Coordinate contributions from Market & Client Research, Competitive Intelligence, VGO, internal performance and commercial data, business-unit leaders, Marketing Insights, R&D, Product, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development and other parts of the business as needed to fully inform opportunity assessments.
• Develop comparable assessments based on client need, market attractiveness and trajectory, competitive dynamics, Vizient’s right to win, strategic fit, solution implications, potential value, investment requirements, risks, trade-offs, and dependencies, using validated inputs.
• Apply a decision framework (e.g., scale, stretch, systematize, and sequence/stop) to facilitate leadership decisions and recommendations on where Vizient should deepen existing capabilities, extend into adjacent spaces, coordinate across business units, develop new solutions, partner, acquire, defer, or discontinue activity.
• Establish repeatable, AI-enabled assessment workflows and maintain the opportunity pipeline, decision record, and structured handoff of prioritized opportunities to Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development and/or Business partners for formal strategy development, business-case development, diligence, partnership, or execution.

Location

The role is located at our corporate headquarters in Irving, TX or our facilities in Chicago, IL or Centennial, CO. Remote work within the United States will also be considered.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Estimated Hiring Range

The current salary range for this role is $156,500.00 to $290,100.00. This position is also incentive eligible.

Benefits

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here .

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.