Aledade is actively recruiting for a Vice President of Quality. This senior leader is responsible for leading clinical quality performance for Aledade.
The Vice President of Quality will serve as the single owner and single point of accountability for Aledade’s quality goals across all lines of business, with a particular focus on Medicare Advantage Stars. This will include developing, maintaining, and executing on the strategic roadmap and providing vision and subject matter expertise for scalable tech-enabled workflows, primary care practice and clinician engagement, and centralized support functions.
This outcome oriented role will lead through cross-functional influence, collaborating closely with peers across the business, including the VP of Pharmacy, VP of Product, SVP of Implementation, and other quality leaders to ensure quality performance is tightly integrated into Aledade’s operating model. This leader will also collaborate with leaders in other departments, including key colleagues leading Aledade’s diagnosis coding and affordability efforts. In addition, the Vice President at Aledade will be an integral part of the Strategy and Priority Leadership Team tasked with informing the company’s overall strategic direction.
Primary Duties:
Quality Performance & Strategy:
- Own accountability for company performance on quality performance across all lines of business, with a focus on Medicare Advantage Stars performance.
- Develop and oversee clinical strategies and operations for continuous improvement on key clinical, quality, and pharmacy measures.
- Serve as the single point of accountability for the life cycle of quality care gaps from creation through closure and reporting, including data ingestion, chart reviews, health plan file submission, and more.
- Implement practice centric strategies to engage, educate, and motivate providers to positively impact Star Ratings.
- Identify and address operational challenges that may impact Star Ratings, providing leadership with updates on potential risks and mitigation efforts.
Stakeholder Engagement & Representation:
- Represent Aledade and its quality performance efforts, internally and externally.
- Lead health plan meetings to discuss Aledade’s performance and shared priorities with health plan partners.
- Build relationships with and lead cross functional teams to drive Star Ratings initiatives and best practices by promoting innovation, strategy development, and implementation excellence.
- Chairs and facilitates steering committee meetings related to Stars, effectively communicating performance progress, new initiatives needed for higher performance, organizational barriers, and expectations of results.
Team Leadership:
- Lead a high-performing and highly engaged team to drive positive culture transformation and employee engagement as evidenced by employee engagement scores.
- Cast the “shadow of a leader,” leading with a high degree of influence across many departments, including a direct team of ~30 with influence over a broader team of 100+ professionals supporting quality efforts.
Other Duties:
- Adapt to evolving organizational needs and priorities by taking on additional duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree with 15+ years experience in healthcare. Ideal candidates will have a combination of senior-level experience and expertise in health care strategy, business development, management consulting, health care finance, and operations.
- 7+ years of experience in Medicare Stars performance and/or value-based care and “provider enablement”.
- Relentless focus on data, using numbers to guide strategic decisions.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to successfully navigate and manage relationships across all levels, both upward and downward.
- Experience with collaborating and partnering with external stakeholders at an executive-level.
- Demonstrated leadership ability to think strategically and implement tactically to consistently deliver results; well-developed skills in diplomacy and collaboration.
- Strong vision and belief in tech-enablement of the company’s products to enable consistent results at scale and reduced operating costs.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Clinical degree (RN, APRN, PA, MD, DO) and relevant experience in clinical practice, preferably in the primary care setting
- Master’s degree or other advanced degree(s) in business, health administration and/or public policy, or other relevant fields
- Prior experience working in both a provider setting — e.g. a clinical practice, a value-based care enabler, or similar — and a health plan setting
Physical Requirements:
- This remote role requires prolonged periods of time sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- This role requires up to 20% travel.
Who We Are:
Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape – independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we’ve become the largest network of independent primary care in the country – helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care. Additionally, by creating value-based contracts across a wide variety of payers, we aim to flip the script on the traditional fee-for-service model. Our work strengthens continuity of care, aligns incentives, and ensures primary care physicians are paid for what they do best – keeping patients healthy. If you want to help create a health care system that is good for patients, good for practices and good for society – and if you’re eager to join a collaborative, inclusive and remote-first culture – you’ve come to the right place.
What Does This Mean for You?
At Aledade, you will be part of a creative culture that is driven by a passion for tackling complex issues with respect, open-mindedness and a desire to learn. You will collaborate with team members who bring a wide range of experiences, interests, backgrounds, beliefs and achievements to their work – and who are all united by a shared passion for public health and a commitment to the Aledade mission.
In addition to time off to support work-life balance and enjoyment, we offer the following comprehensive benefits package designed for the overall well-being of our team members:
Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles
Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents, and domestic partners Robust time off plan 21 days of PTO in your first year2 Paid Volunteer Days & 11 paid holidays
12 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
6 weeks paid sabbatical after 6 years of service
Educational Assistant Program & Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
401(K) with up to 4% match
Stock options
And much more!
At Aledade, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them! We strive to attract, develop, and retain highly qualified individuals representing the diverse communities where we live and work. Aledade is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Employment policies and decisions at Aledade are based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
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