[Hiring] Vice President, Growth @Evolent

Role Description

The Vice President, Growth – Evolent Surgical Management will lead commercial strategy, business development, and market expansion for Evolent Surgical Management (ESM). Reporting to the General Manager of ESM, this executive will drive revenue growth through new client acquisition, strategic partnerships, and expansion of existing relationships across health plans, provider organizations, and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) chains.

The ideal candidate combines deep healthcare market expertise, enterprise sales leadership, and executive relationship management, with a strong understanding of specialty care and value-based healthcare.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive significant growth in sales pipeline, bookings, and revenue.
• Expand strategic partnerships with existing and new clients.
• Increase market awareness and adoption of ESM solutions.
• Establish a scalable, repeatable growth engine aligned with Evolent's strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA, MHA, or other advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of healthcare sales, business development, strategic partnerships, or commercial leadership experience.
• Proven success selling complex healthcare solutions to health plans, health systems, provider organizations, ASC chains, and risk-bearing entities.
• Track record of achieving multimillion-dollar revenue and bookings goals.
• Strong understanding of surgical management, specialty care management, utilization management, and value-based care.
• Experience navigating complex enterprise sales cycles and influencing C-suite stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of healthcare economics, medical cost management, and payer-provider dynamics.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, relationship-building, and strategic planning skills.
• Experience in high-growth healthcare services, health technology, managed care, or value-based care organizations.
• Ability to travel up to 40%.

Requirements

• Self-starter with a proactive mindset, demonstrating creativity and autonomy to open doors.
• Proven track record achieving and exceeding multimillion-dollar revenue and booking targets.
• Exceptional executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to articulate clinical, operational, and financial value propositions to C-suite audiences.
• Experience working in high-growth, entrepreneurial healthcare organizations.
• Passion for improving healthcare quality, affordability, and outcomes through innovative solutions.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to translate market insights into actionable growth initiatives.
• Willingness to travel approximately 20-40% based on client and business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling surgical management, specialty benefit management, prior authorization, utilization management, care management, or population health solutions.
• Strong established relationships with health plans, ASC operators, and provider organizations.

Technical Requirements

• High speed internet over 10 Mbps.
• Ability to plug in directly to the home internet router for call center employees.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance benefits.

Company Description

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with the most complex and costly health conditions. 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.