Performant Financial

Strategic Client Executive

Performant Financial$127K — $160K *
US-Anywhere
+ 4 other locationsRemote
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business or healthcare administration or related field.
  • 10+ years in client management role, particularly in the Payer and BCBS space.
  • Proven track record in revenue management and utilization increase for enterprise clients.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, presentation, and public speaking skills.
  • Strong understanding of client's business dynamics and market environment.
  • Ability to cultivate deep client relationships and build trust.
  • Solid financial acumen and ability to interpret client financial information.
  • Innovative thinking to provide creative solutions for clients.

Responsibilities

  • Maximize client relationships to understand their strategies and needs.
  • Manage revenue targets, budgets, and forecasts for assigned accounts.
  • Lead contract negotiations and manage the client renewals process.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate potential risks in client relationships.
  • Drive revenue growth through product optimization and innovative solutions.
  • Conduct business reviews to illustrate client outcomes and value.
  • Ensure industry-leading service delivery and maintain high client satisfaction.

Benefits

  • 401k plan with employer match.
  • Flexible paid time off and holiday leave.
  • Parental leaves for family support.
  • Comprehensive life and disability insurance.
  • Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
Full Job Description
Position Overview
The (SCE) role will serve as the primary point of contact for Zelis clients for their assigned book of business, which consists of large complex payers with many Zelis solutions. The SCE will manage a strategic book of business comprised of vertically aligned clients and will drive growth for Zelis by achieving annual revenue targets, ensuring client retention, fostering growth with additional products and services, and ensure Zelis is always meeting and/or exceeding client expectations while driving a superior OneZelis customer experience. The SCE will develop and maintain critical internal and external relationships to sustain and build upon Zelis' value proposition and work collaboratively across the enterprise to achieve their clients' goals and objectives.

What you'll do:
  • Client Relationship Building: Maximize the breadth and depth of relationships by working closely with clients to intimately understand their business strategies, needs, and challenges as well as how Zelis supports the achievement of those goals.
  • Revenue Management: Manage and oversee revenue targets, including budgets, forecasts, and product utilization review for the assigned book of business.
  • Client Renewals & Retention: Responsible for client renewals and retention. Successfully lead contract negotiations and manage the complete life cycle to renew client agreements while looking for ways to expand the partnership.
  • Risk Identification and Mitigation: Proactively identify and mitigate risks such as volume decreases, service gaps, and changes in client relationships.
  • Product Knowledge & Optimization: Drive revenue growth through existing product optimization, understand and communicate key differentiators, product strategy, features, and functionality.
  • Client Growth: Successfully uncover and qualify opportunities for growth to deliver great client value. Collaborate with sales to present innovative solutions and grow existing client base. Identify up and cross-sell opportunities to flag for Sales.
  • Client Value: Effectively illustrate and validate client outcomes consistently, leveraging client reporting and knowledge of client's business goals and measures
  • Conduct Client Business Reviews: Conduct and lead all client business reviews and account plans to optimize value with the client's book of business.
  • Client Advocacy: Ensure industry leading quality service delivery and client satisfaction; measurements include proactive client management, timely escalation and resolution of issues, and nurture clients into loyal promoters. Secure client references and permission in support of key Zelis initiatives and case studies as needed.


What you'll bring to Zelis:

  • Bachelor's degree in business or health care administration or related field.
  • 10+ years in client management role with experience in the Payer and BCBS (Blues) space. Experience in working in healthcare a plus including insurance companies, or working with cost management, electronic payments, and/or healthcare communications solutions.
  • Demonstrated success in revenue management and increased utilization within an assigned book of business ofenterprise and strategic clients.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Excellent presentation, public speaking, and meeting management capabilities. Ability to tailor messages to audiences.
  • Deep Understanding of the Client's Business: Understand the client in terms of markets they operate in, competitors, objectives, and challenges. Successfully build strategic account plans to fully understand client's pain and business drivers.
  • Develop Trusting Relationships: Cultivates deep relationships with clients and team.
  • Executive Communicator: Proactively communicates. Can effectively prepare and present communications to clients and executive leadership teams.
  • Problem Solver: The ability to offer and communicate compelling solutions to client challenges is invaluable.
  • Industry Knowledge: Keeping an ear to the ground in terms of market intelligence and relevant industry news.
  • Financial Acumen: Strong financial acumen and ability to interpret client financials. Commission-driven and motivated to achieve growth targets.
  • Innovative Thinking: Brings creative insight to client's businesses to help them deliver a competitive advantage.
  • Collaborator: Actively partners across BUs to communicate client needs & issues, shares and provides awareness of external trends and competitor landscape.
  • Troubleshooting: Forward looking, keeps an eye out for potential internal/external problems and managing potential concerns.


Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

Zelis is headquartered in the U.S., with multiple locations across the country and in Hyderabad, India. Check out our locations to learn more about our offices. All employee work locations are based on the needs of the position and are determined by the Leadership team. In-office work and activities vary based on work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

While location expectations vary by role, candidates within approximately 50 miles of a U.S. office are generally preferred to support collaboration when needed. Our hybrid approach is flexible, and in-office presence is guided by team and business needs rather than a fixed weekly schedule.

Base Salary Range
$127,000.00 - $160,550.00

At Zelis we are committed to providing fair and equitable compensation packages. The base salary range allows us to make an offer that considers multiple individualized factors, including experience, education, qualifications, as well as job-related and industry-related knowledge and skills, etc. Base pay is just one part of our Total Rewards package, which may also include discretionary bonus plans, commissions, or other incentives depending on the role.

Zelis' full-time associates are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees' health, well-being, and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with employer match, flexible paid time off, holidays, parental leaves, life and disability insurance, and health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

About Performant Financial

Performant Financial Corporation is a business services company that provides technology-enabled recovery and related analytics services in the United States. The company primarily offers recovery services to the government and private clients in various markets, such as healthcare, student loans, and general collections. Performant Financial Corporation was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Livermore, California.
Learn more about Performant Financial
Size
1,269 employees
Market Cap
$237.8 million
Industry
Net Income
-$21.5 million
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
-2.5%
Revenue
$159.7 million
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