Sr. Manager, Ops Deployment - ATC

Posting Date

07/24/2025

2000 16th St, Denver, Colorado, 80202-5117, United States of America

About DaVita 

DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (DaVita IKC) is one of the largest end-to-end kidney care providers; we manage $5.5B+ in annualized medical spend through value-based partnerships. We provide comprehensive care and complex chronic condition management to 80k+ patients nationwide, whether they are in the early stages of kidney disease, transitioning to dialysis, seeking a kidney transplant or receiving life-sustaining dialysis. 

Position Summary  

DaVita IKC is seeking an Sr. Manager, Ops Deployment - ATC to play a critical role in bringing innovation to life across our clinical operations. This position will be responsible for implementing and overseeing a governance process across clinical and operational teams to ensure effective and efficient deployment of solutions into the hands of frontline healthcare operators. This is a high-visibility role that requires strong influence, exceptional communication, project management skills, cross-functional coordination, and a passion for improving healthcare delivery. 

Team Summary

This position will sit on a broader Operations Deployment team that collectively maintains DaVita IKC’s release schedules and ensures initiatives are deployed with coordination and consistency. This team serves as trusted advisors to both centralized business teams and operations as they help ensure that projects are prepared for launch and that operators are prepared to absorb them into their day-to-day routines.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Governance & Alignment

Stand up and lead structured governance processes that align cross-functional stakeholders around initiative planning and execution. Serve as a strategic liaison across clinical, financial, legal, and operational teams to facilitate clear decision-making and transparent communication.

• Strategic Roadmap Development

Develop and maintain a multi-quarter strategic deployment roadmap in alignment with enterprise goals and capacity constraints. Translate high-level strategic priorities into actionable, sequenced release schedules for field implementation.

• Initiative Coordination & Prioritization

Drive initiative intake and prioritization processes, ensuring readiness criteria are met before deployment. Monitor interdependencies between initiatives.

• Training & Resource Enablement

Build and oversee maintenance of a robust, user-friendly library of operational resources, training documentation, and reference materials for clinical operators in partnership with change management, learning and development, and project deployment teams. 

• Legal, Compliance, Privacy & Risk Coordination
  Develop and manage a structured intake and review process for engaging Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Risk (LCPR) stakeholders. This includes creating a clear, standardized framework for how deliverables are presented—ensuring requests are streamlined, prioritized, and sequenced to avoid overload. This teammate serves as the central point of coordination to drive timely approvals.

• Executive Communication & Influence

Synthesize complex information for executive audiences and influence alignment around enterprise trade-offs and initiative timing.

Qualifications 

• Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s in Business, Health Administration, or related field preferred.

  • 7+ years in operations, strategy, or program management roles, ideally in healthcare.

  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional governance processes with senior stakeholders.

  • Strong strategic planning, systems thinking, and organizational design skills.

  • Exceptional communication and executive facilitation abilities.

  • Proficient in Microsoft 365 Suite, Smartsheet, or similar strategic planning tools.

• Preferred Credentials: 

• Project Management Professional (PMP), Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or similar certification is a strong plus. 

• Key Skills: 

• Strong organizational and time management skills. 

• Strong visualization and user experience design skills

• High EQ and ability to lead through influence

• Exceptional communication and facilitation abilities. 

• Experience managing cross-functional teams and stakeholder relationships.