Strategic Initiatives Manager

Location: Cincinnati, OH, Remote

Strategic Initiatives Manager 

Job Summary  
The Strategic Initiatives Manager is a team player responsible for leading and managing high-impact initiatives that align with the organization's strategic goals. This role involves working closely as a liaison between divisional leadership and business stakeholders to identify, plan, and execute initiatives that drive business growth, reduce costs, improve efficiency, or enhance/create organizational capabilities. The Strategic Initiatives Manager acts as a change agent, ensuring the successful implementation of initiatives by leveraging cross-functional collaboration, project and change management practices, and data-driven decision-making. They always understand what business question or issue is being addressed, how the final solution will be implemented, and liaise between the cross-functional teams to not allow anyone lose sight of the goals and the deadlines. They also understand that success is defined as team and corporate success, not simply their own individual success. 

What You’ll Do  

Initiative Management: 

• Fulfill the role of the voice of the initiative from inception to implementation.  

• Drive the team to define the goal of the initiative with great clarity and alignment. 

• Help everyone understand that we are not “Done" until the initiative is implemented and integrated or live in production. 

• Start every meeting with the baseline answers to the questions: “What problem are we trying to solve?” and “What does success look like?”. 

• Update the team with regular written communications that fall into the department’s standardize communications cadence. 

• Continuous improvement mindset, including monitoring solutions post-implementation to ensure business objectives are met and establishing regular review sessions with stakeholders for ongoing improvements. 

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by evaluating existing workflows and processes within the Data & Analytics team, identifying areas of improvement to drive efficiency, quality, and productivity.  

Stakeholder Collaboration: 

• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define business requirements and ensure alignment on scalable solutions. 

• Gather feedback from end-users and stakeholders to refine and enhance solutions. 

• Act as a change agent to facilitate organizational transformation, ensuring alignment across impacted teams and functions. 

• Develop documentation, training materials, and user guides to drive communication and training efforts to support solution adoption. 

• Communicate project updates, outcomes, and impact to stakeholders at various levels of the organization. 

Project and Operations Management: 

• Support prioritization of initiatives in alignment with organizational goals and objectives. 

• Identify and implement tools, methodologies, and streamlined processes for a structured approach to managing strategic initiatives effectively and efficiently.  

• Document business requirements and establish success metrics for new projects, initiatives, and requests.  

• Support implementation of scalable solutions, leading resource allocation and risk management. 

• Ensure progress and dependencies of key projects are tracked and reported on consistently. 

What We Need  

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in business administration, communications, or similar field. 

• 5+ years of experience working with advanced analytics, data science, engineering, or other quant related field. 

• Experience in change management, project management or coordination, including resource management. 

• Strong communication and project-reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communications and collaboration.  

Desired Qualifications  

• Ability to understand business processes, goals, and challenges to design effective solutions within the “big picture” of the organization. 

• Ability to translate and articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa. Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to manage stakeholders and influence decision-making. 

• Ability to document and streamline processes, with a mindset for efficiency. 

What You'll Need to Succeed 

• Proficiency in tools and methodologies for project management, resource management and performance tracking. 

• Strong analytical thinking to identify and address challenges effectively. 

• Nimble business mindset, focused on developing creative solutions. 

• Ability to navigate through ambiguity to drive clarity for the initiative. 

Base Salary & Compensation: 

Base Salary Band: $88,000 - $175,000

 
Compensation: At PatientPoint, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including skills, qualifications, geographic location, and professional experience, which can cause your compensation to vary. The base salary range listed is just one component of PatientPoint’s total compensation package for employees. For additional details on our total benefits package, please review the section “About PatientPoint” at the end of this job description.