Vice President Insurance Operations Jobs in Elma, WA

Position Title: VP - Vice President - Partnerships and Innovation Department: Brand and Growth Marketing Job Description: The Vice President, Partnerships & Innovation develops strategic partnerships, capabilities, ventures, business models, commercialization pathways, and innovation platforms that advance OU Health’s enterprise strategy and create measurable value.

The role serves as a commercialization and strategic execution engine within the Chief Strategy & Growth Office, linking strategy to external relationships, innovation, technology, business development, and implementation. In partnership with Strategic Planning, Growth & Market Development, clinical and research leaders, operations, technology, Finance, and external organizations, the Vice President identifies opportunities and disruptions, develops business and partnership models, evaluates best-fit alternatives, incubates new capabilities, and converts ideas into sustainable enterprise value.

The Vice President ensures partnerships and innovations are tied to strategic priorities, supported by credible business plans, embraced by key leaders, well governed, and measured against organizational and financial outcomes.

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.

Create a portfolio framework aligned with OU Health’s Strategic Plan that weighs opportunity, gaps, risk, investment, clinical impact, patient/community benefit, and financial outcomes. Assess, structure, and advance partnerships that strengthen OU Health’s strategic position, engaging leaders as needed. Build joint ventures, affiliations, and industry, academic, corporate, clinical, and other strategic partnerships. Anchor partnership strategies in enterprise priorities rather than one-off transactions. Cultivate external relationships that build capabilities, accelerate growth, expand access, strengthen differentiation, or create new value.

Build enterprise innovation capabilities that solve major organizational challenges and create strategic differentiation. Identify emerging technologies, business models, competitors, and market disruptions affecting OU Health. Partner with College of Medicine leaders to identify, assess, scale, deploy, and monetize portfolio innovations and breakthroughs. Develop methods to evaluate innovations by strategic fit, value, risk, scalability, feasibility, economics, portfolio balance, resource needs, and competitive advantage. Create pathways to rapidly intake, test, learn, refine, scale, or discontinue innovations.

Partner with clinical operations, research, and the VP of Data & AI to align AI enablement with OU Health’s strategic plan, advancing growth, innovation, consumer engagement, and strategic priorities. Define high-value AI use cases that support strategic and business goals. Establish criteria to assess AI-enabled capabilities for value, workflow impact, consumer experience, growth, risk, readiness, resources, roadmap fit, and differentiation. Embed AI planning into enterprise strategy and innovation, rather than managing it as a separate technology agenda. Work with Enterprise Technology Solutions to align AI strategy with technology readiness, governance, and security. Help align OU Health’s IT roadmap and governance with the strategic plan.

Develop mission-and-strategy-aligned business models and revenue opportunities. Create business cases and commercialization plans for new ventures. Guide ventures from opportunity identification through validation, planning, piloting, and transition to sustainable operating ownership, using enterprise capabilities as appropriate. Assess opportunities for strategic fit, market demand, financial potential, capability, scalability, and risk.

Create a structured commercialization pathway for promising research, clinical innovations, intellectual property, and emerging technologies to generate enterprise value. Work with research, academic, clinical, legal, finance, and external partners to identify commercialization opportunities. Connect researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, industry partners, investors, and enterprise leaders when appropriate. Support a balanced incentive program that reflects the shared interests of researchers, clinicians, and appropriate OU institutions. Support appropriate intellectual property protection and governance. Create repeatable pathways that move innovations from concept to measurable value and eventual monetization.

Lead or coordinate cross-functional implementation of select enterprise strategic priorities, including new businesses, programs, and strategic plans. Translate strategic opportunities into business plans, operating models, roadmaps, governance, and success measures. Align resources, governance, and cross-disciplinary execution to support teamwork, effective implementation, adoption, measurement, and support. Create transition pathways for validated, mature capabilities to move into long-term operational ownership. Provide visibility into execution risks, dependencies, barriers, and outcomes.

Incubation Lead initial development and incubation of OU Health’s Patient/Consumer Digital Engagement Center as a strategic innovation capability. Drive rapid design, technology deployment, workflows, automation, AI integration, and measurement with ambulatory operations, Growth & Market Development, technology leaders, and other stakeholders. Prioritize roadmap sequencing to build early momentum, leverage champions, test and learn, balance build/buy decisions, and optimize adoption. Apply lessons from leading health system engagement centers and B2C consumer market leaders. Identify best-fit technology platforms within a solution architecture that leverages future-forward technologies and existing OU Health platforms. Design the capability around the consumer-patient, not organizational silos. Establish the operating model, ambulatory partnership, and capabilities needed to transition the mature platform to Growth & Market Development and ambulatory operations.

Establish and lead disciplined governance for partnership, business development, innovation, and venture opportunities, using a Business Development Review Committee or similar enterprise mechanism and existing governance bodies as appropriate. Create consistent processes for intake, evaluation, business cases, prioritization, approval, incubation, measurement, and transition. Maintain an enterprise pipeline of partnership and innovation opportunities. Establish a portfolio framework to vet, decline, and advance candidate initiatives.

Set clear financial, strategic, operational, and consumer outcomes for partnerships, ventures, and innovation initiatives. Track partnership ROI, KPIs, innovation pipeline performance, new revenue, and accretive value. Redesign, transition, or discontinue initiatives that lack sufficient value without disrupting operations.

Education: Master’s degree required. Experience: 10 years progressive leadership experience with at least five years of healthcare marketing experience required.

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Extensive knowledge of healthcare strategy, strategic partnerships, emerging technologies, innovation, commercialization, finance, organizational transformation, enterprise execution, business model development, and sustainable value creation principles. Exceptional skill in exercising sound business judgment, evaluating complex opportunities and risks, developing high-impact partnerships, leading cross-functional teams, negotiating strategic agreements, and identifying transformative opportunities that generate measurable enterprise value. Proven ability to distinguish high-impact opportunities from low-value initiatives, navigate ambiguity and complexity, build and scale innovative business models and partnerships, drive enterprise-wide transformation, and move strategic concepts from development through execution while serving as an entrepreneurial, visionary, and results-oriented leader.

OU Health is an equal opportunity employer.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, 401(k), medical and dental plans, and many more.

We know that a total benefits and compensation package, designed to meet your specific needs both inside and outside of the work environment, create peace of mind for you and your family.

OU Health is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system of hospitals, clinics and centers of excellence. With 11,000 employees and more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practice providers, OU Health is home to Oklahoma’s largest doctor network with a complete range of specialty care. OU Health serves Oklahoma and the region with the state’s only freestanding children’s hospital, the only National Cancer Institute-Designated OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma’s flagship hospital, which serves as the state’s only Level 1 trauma center and Edmond Medical Center in the heart of the Edmond Community. Becker’s Hospital Review named University of Oklahoma Medical Center one of the 100 Great Hospitals in America for 2020. OU Health’s oncology program at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center was named Oklahoma’s top facility for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020-21 rankings. OU Health also was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as high performing in these specialties: Colon Surgery, COPD and Congestive Heart Failure. OU Health’s mission is to lead healthcare in patient care, education and research. Experts in prevention, treatment and cures, our team works to improve lives through innovation in medical care, education and research, while investing in the people, technologies and facilities that will enable us to achieve our goals. We are seeking individuals who have a passion and talent for caring for others. By joining our team, you will provide quality health care to our community through the work you do every day. We provide clinical and non‑clinical opportunities to further your career and we invite you to explore our available positions.

Equal employment opportunities are provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or protected veteran status in accordance with applicable federal laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Reasonable accommodations are made to the known physical and mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities.