Sr Manager, IKC Clinical Programs

Posting Date

10 / 28 / 2025

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 ability to balance strategic vision and execution capabilities to deliver results

Strong executive communication skills

Ability to effectively handle and drive multiple projects with multiple teams

Willingness to understand the complexity of healthcare markets

What We'll Provide :

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

Comprehensive benefits : Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out

Support for you and your family : Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace , backup child and elder care, maternity / paternity leave and more

Professional development programs : DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita's online training platform StarLearning.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $100,000.00 - $147,000.00 / year.

If a candidate is hired, they will be paid at least the minimum wage according to their geographical jurisdiction and the exemption status for the position.

New York Exempt : New York City and Long Island : $64,350.00 / year, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties : $64,350.00 / year, Remainder of New York state : $60,405.80 / year New York Non-exempt : New York City and Long Island : $16.50 / hour, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties : $16.50 / hour, Remainder of New York state : $15.50 / hour

Washington Exempt : $77,968.80 / year Washington Non-exempt : Bellingham : $17.66 / hour, Burien : $21.16 / hour, Unincorporated King County : $20.29 / hour, Renton : $20.90 / hour, Seattle : $20.76 / hour, Tukwila : $21.10 / hour, Remainder of Washington state : $16.66 / hour

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link : DaVita.jobs / WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https : / / careers.davita.com / benefits

Colorado Residents : Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.