Datavant is a rapidly growing healthcare technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data. By eliminating data silos in the healthcare industry, we aim to unlock opportunities to accelerate medical research, and help organizations design better ways to facilitate access, affordability, and quality of care leading to better patient outcomes.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, fully remote team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We look for people who are smart, nice and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team (no office locations) and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs -- learn more here!
As the Senior Director of Sales and Operations Planning, you will oversee Datavant’s Integrated Business Planning process. You will play a critical role in striking the perfect balance between delighting our clients and optimizing the delivery of operational efficiency and effectiveness standards. We are looking for an individual who can lead teams to champion our process across the organization and drive the vision, strategy, and continuous improvement of the business planning program.
You Will:
- Provide strong day-to-day oversight and supportive leadership for the demand planning, capacity planning and production planning functions within the Datavant Services organization.
- Drive continuous improvement within the business planning function, leveraging best practices, thought leadership in statistical modeling and incorporation of emerging business planning trends.
- Lead monthly alignment of Sales/Account demand planning process, operational capacity requirements and production plans within Datavant Services. Present final, aligned S&OP to Executive Team.
- Support and align cross-functional teams (e.g. Sales, Operations, HR, Finance, IT and Client Success) to understand expected outcomes and business impact related to forecast cycle variations/updates.
- Drive/sustain change within the organization through stakeholder management, ensuring consensus and execution between teams and executive level.
- Build annual business plan for Datavant Services organization, understanding market dynamics, customer business growth/loss, new product introduction and delivery channel trends.
- Develop reporting and analytics to support root cause analysis and forward actions to improve forecasting, inventory management and capacity/production performance.
- Develop long term strategic roadmaps for demand planning function, capacity optimization and production improvement, driving cost reduction, productivity and throughput performance.
Critical Leadership Capabilities:
- Identifies critical activities and assignments; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Determines project/assignment requirements by breaking them down into tasks with timelines and milestones.
- Understands situational leadership and how to properly balance delegation of work with proper training, coaching and education of team members
- Is an advocate for the team and the critical importance of the IBP within the organization.
- Identifies conditions that contribute to gaps or key variances; explores relationships between conditions and outcomes; distinguishes common causes from special cause and detects symptoms and address root causes.
- Solution and idea oriented; analyzes the potential effect or impact of each solution; selects appropriate approach .
- Tests solutions; gathers/analyzes feedback on results; reviews impact on baseline measures; modifies solutions as appropriate to ensure efficacy.
You Will Bring to the Table:
- 10+ years of experience in Finance Planning, Supply Chain or Planning Management including 5 or more years of S&OP/IBP experience.
- Strong Data and Analytics / data modeling experience.
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, as well as strong skills as a negotiator to reach consensus, alignment and commitment from key stake holders.
- Demonstrated ability to problem solve and drive continuous process improvement.
- Ability to simplify complex information into what is relevant to each function.
- Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity.
- Ability to handle a dynamic and fast-moving environment with recurring deliverables and KPI targets.
- Strong management skills and ability to drive engagement.
- Proficient in Excel with ability to handle large data sets and develop planning models.
Bonus Points if:
- You have an MBA
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Mathematics/Statistics, Engineering or Finance
- Healthcare industry experience
We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are smart, nice, and get things done where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices. We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact and less by title. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $185,000-$210,000.
Even though this is a remote role, you may need to travel onsite. To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. We can only see aggregate responses and are unable to view individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not! Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.