Manager, Value- Care Payor Strategy

Posting Date

11/19/2025

This position is a hybrid role based at our Denver Headquarters, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday through Thursday).

DaVita's Payor Partnerships team manages a $7B portfolio of commercial revenue and a high‑growth, national value‑based care business that encompasses more than 200,000 lives and over $5B of medical spend. The Payor Partnerships leaders make up a highly motivated, fast‑paced team with extensive experience in negotiations, managed care, finance, and consulting, and are at the center of DaVita's strategy to evolve from fee‑for‑service reimbursement to value‑based care.

The Manager, Value‑based Care Payor Strategy is a key member of this team, with primary responsibilities of supporting senior executives in the underwriting, negotiation, and execution of highly complex value‑based care arrangements with DaVita's payor partners. Critical to success in this role is an ability to work collaboratively and manage multiple work streams across actuary, operations, legal, and business development.

This includes supporting strategy formulation, business development, and the delivery of a variety of innovative integrated care partnerships (pay‑for‑performance, shared savings, and capitation). Other special projects will include strategy work related to DaVita's broader commercial health plan portfolio.

• Support all aspects of the value‑based care deal negotiation process, including contracting and negotiation strategy, financial modeling and pricing, and project management
• Responsible for all negotiation analytics, including partnering closely with DaVita's actuarial team, developing financial impact models in coordination with our analyst team, and building ad‑hoc analyses independently, as needed
• Engage broader team with thoughtful and creative value‑based care financial structures to support payor negotiations
• Perform ad‑hoc strategic analyses that answer sometimes ambiguous but critical questions and inform our overall negotiation strategy
• Present analysis findings and conclusions to senior executives in a structured and comprehensive way
• Support senior executives to create both internal and external strategic and financial meeting materials that are persuasive and direct
• Maintain robust and collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders to drive successful completion of deal negotiations and contracting
• Project manage independently and operate under tight timelines, as necessary

• Strong quantitative and financial modeling skills
• Proven track record of problem‑solving abilities needed to develop strategy and direction within a complex payor/provider market
• Enjoys owning complicated, fast‑paced deliverables and is comfortable navigating uncertain and ambiguous challenges with support of senior teammates
• Ability to thought‑partner across multiple stakeholders, and demonstrated experience in driving forward‑progress for complex projects
• Solid communication skills; can develop high‑quality, well formatted presentations and is comfortable communicating complex topics to a senior‑level audience
• Experience with in fast‑paced, deal‑oriented teams in the corporate development, business development, banking, consulting or adjacent fields
• Preferred experience with top‑tier management consulting firm or investment banking

• Action‑oriented doer who sees themselves as a combination of contributor and leader as they move their organization successfully down strategic pathways
• High degree of creativity and intelligence. Excellent problem‑solving skills and strong analytical capabilities. Ability to perform exceptionally in fast‑paced, matrix environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and communications style that will develop confidence in the team they lead and keep the attention of the broader organization
• High degree of comfort in ambiguity and track record of performing in similar role
• Proven ability to assess, attract, retain and develop internal personnel to meet performance expectations and future team needs
• Previously demonstrated abilities as a consensus builder. Strong,…