Sr Manager, IKC Clinical Programs

Posting Date

07/01/2026

2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America

Are you passionate about, and have experience in, reimagining care delivery for patients with chronic conditions? If you thrive in dynamic environments and want to shape innovative solutions that improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, this could be the next step in your career.

DaVita is seeking a Sr. Manager, IKC Clinical Programs to help drive forward our value-based care strategy for patients with chronic kidney disease and kidney failure. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and innovation—offering the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to transformative initiatives that directly impact patient lives.

You’ll play a critical role in designing, piloting, and scaling care interventions in close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including clinical, analytics, operations, and product. This position is perfect for a strategic thinker who’s ready to move from consulting or healthcare operations into a more hands-on, mission-driven leadership role.

Key responsibilities are spread across three categories:

Strategy

• Evaluate effectiveness and scalability of field initiatives and prepare markets for the launch of new integrated care programs

• Partner and collaborate with key teams across the Village to drive this strategy to fruition

• Determine how to best organize our frontline and field leadership teams to best deliver integrated care for ESKD patients

• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the Village to design scalable solutions for our teams and work to build consensus around recommendations

• Evaluate performance of current initiatives and complete analysis to understand best opportunities to improve clinical outcomes and reduce total cost of care

Innovation

• Gap analysis of where new processes or products could enhance clinical quality and teammate efficiency

• Evaluation of ideas generated by field teammates and business stakeholders

• A continuous improvement mindset, adopting an iterative approach to testing

• An integrated care thought leader in developing the next generation teammate facing IT systems

Pilots and experimentation

• Performs hypothesis development, research, insight generation, and business recommendations

• Leads the development, piloting, deployment and measurement of outcomes for processes and workflows that drive the IKC Care Model   

• Builds complex models and conducts financial planning and analyses to assess impact on business metrics

• Conveys findings in a cohesive story, including summarizing insights from analysis

• Distills complex business problems into cohesive, impactful stories

• Build consensus for best demonstrated practices across several stakeholders

Travel: ~15% of the time

Here is what you can expect when you join our Village: 

• A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter.

• Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.

• Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.

• Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.

• A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being and your future.

• Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.    

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree required

• 5+ years of work experience in management consulting, process engineering, investment banking or a corporate strategy role preferred. Recent experience working in value-based care preferred.

• Demonstrated experience and/or interest in healthcare delivery and patient experience

• Strong analytical and presentation skills are preferred

• Highly collaborative with the ability to impact change

Additional Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to recognize, prioritize, and evaluate workload and specific growth opportunities

• Possesses the ability to balance strategic vision and execution capabilities to deliver results

• Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel

• Comfort with ambiguity

• Outstanding conceptual, analytical and strategic skills; strong business and financial acumen with a sense of shareholder responsibility

• Possesses the ab