Sr. Associate

Strive Care Partners Overview 

Strive Care Partners (SCP) is a dedicated business unit within Strive Health that partners with nephrologists to share and succeed in global risk contracts with payors. SCP will benefit patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage kidney disease (ESKD) through a comprehensive, patient-centered approach that enhances lives and local communities. SCP develops local market Managed Service Organizations (MSOs) that aggregate networks of nephrologists and provide them with the tools necessary to be successful in managing risk on their patients. Specifically, SCP delivers primary care services, specialized clinical programs, data integration and analytics, care teams, and administrative support services – all embedded within the nephrologist’s practice. SCP contracts with local market payors on the nephrologists’ behalf to take global risk on their CKD and ESRD patients and provides nephrologists with meaningful short-term and long-term financial incentives, including participation in shared savings and equity-based programs.

Senior Associate, Strive Care Partners

The Strategy and Development Senior Associate will work cross-functionally to drive growth across the organization. This person will work with the organization broadly to solve business problems and identify opportunities for growth as they come up. They will support business development by researching and preparing for customer meetings, project managing the BD process, and working on partnership design and execution. S/he will support corporate strategy initiatives as well, with a focus on growing the organization in innovative ways. S/he must be entrepreneurial, and highly collaborative. S/he should be a curious self-starter, who is excited about the prospect of identifying opportunities and designing solutions to advance the business.

Essential Functions

• Support development, rationalization, and execution of strategic initiatives across SCP
• Conduct research, perform qualitative and quantitative analysis, and develop presentations for both internal and external executive team
• Lead project management vertical of SCP strategy and growth team to support management of timely deliverables of key initiatives
• Provide analytical support to assess clinical, operational, and financial viability of new and ongoing market opportunities
• Create presentations, lead market intelligence gathering efforts, and provide analytical support to formulate pitch and proposed partnership structure for future customers.
• Work with executive team to drive efficient strategy processes and support information sharing across the team
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop partnership-specific business cases that drive high value partnership designs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop new market clinical design and entrance strategy, including staffing, site of care, and high-impact clinical programs
• Provide analytical support to assess clinical and operational viability of new and ongoing markets
• Partner with the Business Development team to support customer discussions Work with the Implementation and Technology teams to ensure product design is delivered and implemented within first ninety days of market operations
• Conduct research, perform analyses, and develop presentations for leadership team on progress of new program design
• Meet in person with internal and/or external stakeholders to facilitate team and business priorities/opportunities. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic achievement
• Business travel
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare experience strongly preferred
• High degree of proficiency in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
• Entrepreneurial spirit and comfort in ambiguity; desire to be a self-starter

Annual Salary Range: $72,800.00-$88,300.00