[Hiring] Associate Vice President, Market & Client Research @Vizient

Role Description

As the Associate Vice President, Market & Client Research you will lead Vizient’s market and client research capability within the Office of Strategy Management (OSM) Strategic Market Research & Industry Insights (SMRII) function and personally deliver the function’s highest-priority research. You will establish the research agenda and lead the design, execution, synthesis, and communication of secondary research along with targeted primary and quantitative studies, on healthcare markets, client needs, market drivers, demand, emerging opportunities, and strategic uncertainties.

Drawing on your broad knowledge of the healthcare industry, you will connect economic, policy, provider, payer, life sciences, workforce, technology, market-structure, and client signals into a coherent market perspective and personally author or quality-assure major deliverables, including:

• Vizient Market Outlook (VMO)
• State of the Industry Insights
• Trends Reports
• Environmental Assessment
• Strategic briefs
• Client-needs updates

You will serve as a senior market research authority, translating evidence into clear implications for strategic decisions and decision-ready deliverables.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and personally deliver the market research fact base, market-driver framework, and integrated market perspective underlying major research deliverables.
• Ensure the strategic market perspective is grounded in rigorous research, informed by Vizient’s subject matter experts and aligned with other research functions across the organization.
• Lead the end-to-end design, execution, synthesis, and communication of primary and secondary research on healthcare markets, client needs, market drivers, demand, adoption, emerging opportunities, and strategic uncertainties.
• Lead strategy-driven client research in partnership with Marketing Insights and Product to understand the evolution and prioritization of client needs.
• Integrate relevant trends and findings into a coherent healthcare market perspective.
• Lead research readouts and decision-support sessions that help leaders interpret findings and determine next actions.
• Build the research delivery capability by establishing research-quality standards, methodology, and source-evaluation protocols.

Your 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.
• Broad and deep knowledge of the U.S. healthcare industry and its stakeholders.
• Significant experience leading and directly delivering primary and secondary market research.
• Advanced knowledge of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic questions into researchable questions.
• Ability to synthesize diverse internal and external analyses into clear implications.
• Desire to operate as a hands-on player-coach who personally delivers high-priority research.
• Experience using AI-enabled research tools and workflows.
• Advanced written, verbal, facilitation, and executive-presentation skills.

Requirements

• Ability to connect economic, policy, provider, payer, life sciences, workforce, technology, market-structure, and client signals into a coherent market perspective.
• Experience authoring or substantially contributing to enterprise-level market perspectives.
• Working knowledge of databases and data structures.
• Judgment to validate and audit AI-generated sources, methods, analyses, calculations, and conclusions.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits plan.
• Incentive eligible position.

Estimated Hiring Range

The current salary range for this role is $156,500.00 to $290,100.00. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances.

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.