Vizient, Inc

Senior Director, Venture Delivery

Vizient, Inc

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Chicago • Illinois • Minnesota • United States

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Salary

💰 $135,200 - $236,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Serve as the operational backbone for Vizient’s R&D ventures.
  • Act as a trusted execution partner to venture leadership.
  • Thrive in ambiguity, bringing structure, rigor, and momentum to early-stage and fast-evolving initiatives.
  • Lead cross-functional execution from venture inception through scale across product, design, engineering, commercial, and operational workstreams.
  • Design scalable operational frameworks to ensure speed and accountability without compromising compliance.
  • Collaborate deeply with legal, privacy, and compliance teams.
  • Draft and deliver executive communications internally and externally.
  • Facilitate structured collaboration across domains.
  • Champion continuous improvement, bringing an agile, data-informed mindset to operational tooling.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Technology, or a related field preferred.
  • Minimum of 10 or more years of progressive operational leadership experience in early-stage, high-growth, or innovation-driven environments.
  • Extensive operational leadership experience in early-stage or high-growth environments, ideally within product, technology or innovation portfolios.
  • Background as a Chief of Staff, senior program manager, or operations lead, with both strategic foresight and tactical capability.
  • A builder’s mindset with proven experience designing new teams, workflows or operational systems from scratch.
  • Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate alignment, and represent venture progress at the highest levels.
  • Strong command of Agile and Scrum frameworks, with the fluency to guide execution approaches, not just participate in them.
  • Operational rigor and technical fluency that’s comfortable managing workflows, reporting systems and PM tools.
  • Experience integrating and aligning with privacy, legal and compliance functions within a fast-paced development context.
  • Proven ability to lead resource planning, budgeting, and hiring efforts in collaboration with senior functional leads.
  • Adept at driving clarity and alignment across complex stakeholder networks, ensuring accountability and execution at scale.
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Soft Skills
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