Director of Contract Center of Excellence

Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Director of Contract Center of Excellence to join our National P&L team.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the role

In this role you shape, maintain and oversee Oscar’s national value based contracting strategy, operations and Profitability Initiatives, across all our Regions and Lines of Business by working with teams across the company including data, actuarial, tech, contracting, legal, etc.

You will report to the Contract & Network Performance VP. This is a remote / work-from-home role. You must reside in one of the following states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Washington, D.C. Note, this list of states is subject to change. #LI-Remote

The base pay for this role in the states of California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Washington is: $176,000 - $231,000 per year. The base pay for this role in all other locations is: $158,400 - $207,900 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, company equity grants and annual performance bonuses.

Responsibilities

• Drive Contract Standardization Strategy while collaborating with key internal stakeholders such as Legal, Operations and Regional P&L teams to optimize the efficiency of the overall contracting lifecycle, including development of template agreements, contracting guardrails, training resources, and other key process decisions
• Partner with Medical Cost Management to analyze internal data to drive insights on operational performance and and build out reporting tools to assist regional P&L teams in driving improvements
• Partner with internal teams such as Finance, Legal and Procurement to improve the collaboration between contracting and other functions, reducing Oscar’s risk and improving visibility into our processes
• Develop strategies to drive care to our highest performance network partners
• Drive improvements to related operational processes (e.g. contract ingestion ) that can help drive greater productivity across P&L
• Lead the oversight for direct report(s), including but not limited to coaching, conducting frequent meetings, direction, etc.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience solving operational problems 
• Experience leading and improving Payor and Reimbursement processes and workflows
• Experience leading a team towards execution of goals and expected outcomes
• Track record related to value based contracting, affordability and profitability programs - creating, executing and, monitoring contract performance across provider types
• Consultative executive presence and ability to communicate with and lead presentations for senior leaders, and executives both internally and externally.
• Strong experience related to  program management ownership and leading across a large cross functional team
• A strong financial/analytical background, and the ability to quickly digest and evaluate complex financial structures and large amounts of data in order to make commercially intelligent business decisions.
• Orientation towards designing processes systematically while being able to execute quickly within a fast-paced, fluid and goal-oriented environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience working within a rapidly scaling organization
• BA/BS Degree 
• Masters in Business Administration or healthcare related field(s) preferred

 

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Pay Transparency: 

Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience.

Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, paid holidays, paid vacation and sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimburseme