Posting Date03/25/2026
2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America
This position is a hybrid role based at our Denver Headquarters, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday through Thursday).The Value Based Care Strategy & Payor Partnerships Manager 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, finance, 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.
Position description and responsibilities:- Support all aspects of the value-based care deal negotiation process, including contracting and negotiation strategy, financial analysis and pricing insights, 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
- Build 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
Minimum Qualifications:- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Proven track record of problem-solving abilities needed to develop strategy and direction within complex 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 within fast paced, deal-oriented teams in the corporate development, business development, banking, consulting or adjacent fields
Desired traits and skills:- 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, intelligence, and curiosity. Excellent problem-solving skills and strong analytical capabilities. Ability to rapidly learn and 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
- Previously demonstrated abilities as a consensus builder. Strong, self-confident, decisive leader with good listening skills. Self-starter with drive and initiative
- Emotional maturity and ability to create change in an environment where the structure may evolve rapidly
- Able to work in an environment where sharing responsibility for success and failure of others on the team is critical to the overall success of the company
- Is highly motivated and ambitious; demonstrates the ability, talent, commitment and ambition to assume increased scopes of responsibility
What We'll ProvideMore 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 Star Learning.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis
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This position will be open for a minimum of three days.
The Salary Range for the role is $95,000.00 - $135,000.00 per year.
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. 
