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The Regional Senior Director, Operations is a senior regional executive accountable for developing and executing the operating strategy that drives performance across multiple markets. This role operates as the primary operational partner to the Regional Market President — translating vision and priorities into disciplined, market-level execution.

The Senior Director is responsible for the design and governance of the regional operating model, multi-year performance roadmaps, and the data and technology support that enables sustained improvement across 4+ markets. In the physician partner context, this role functions as an operational resource and performance enabler — supporting the execution of physician partnership commitments established by the Regional Market President.

As a member of the Regional Leadership Team, the Senior Director ensures the region is operationally positioned to deliver sustainable growth, high-quality care and margin expansion at scale.

Multi-Market Strategy Development & Execution – 45%

• Develop and own the regional operating cadence for key levers in the business (e.g. Risk Adjustment, Clinical Pathways, Quality/STARs, and Cost of Care initiatives), ensuring coherence across 4+ markets and alignment to company objectives.
• Translate the strategic priorities into market-level operating plans with defined KPIs, multi-year roadmaps, and governance frameworks that enable consistent execution.
• Drive cross-market strategy alignment and large-scale transformation initiatives, positioning the region for growth through new market launches, AI initiatives, payer expansions, and regulatory change.
• Serve as a point of executive escalation for performance, compliance, and operational risk — owning resolution at the regional level to support the markets.

Physician Partner Operational Support – 25%

The Senior Director’s role is to ensure that operational commitments and performance expectations are translated into actionable plans and support market level execution.

• Partner with market-level operational and clinical leadership to ensure partnership performance goals — including but not limited to risk adjustment accuracy, clinical pathway execution, Quality/STAR improvement, and cost of care improvement — are embedded into the regional operating plan and actively tracked.
• Serve as the operational point of escalation for market leaders and medical directors when physician partner performance barriers arise, mobilizing resources, data, and cross-functional expertise to resolve issues and keep execution on track.
• Aid physician partners in understanding and navigating agilon’s operational frameworks, tools, and programs — providing structured guidance that enables them to execute effectively within the value-based care model.
• Collaborate with the Regional Market President to align the operating model and resource allocation reflect physician partner priorities and market-specific needs.
• Provide the Regional Market President with clear, data-driven performance visibility into physician partner outcomes, enabling informed strategic decisions and relationship management at the executive level.

Data, Technology & Strategic Enablement – 20%

• Oversee the regional data and technology strategy in partnership with Data & Analytics and IT/Engineering, ensuring digital enablement advances performance priorities.
• Collaborate in setting strategic business requirements for EMR/claims integrations, automation, analytics, and reporting tools — ensuring regional data capabilities are fit-for-purpose and scalable.
• Champion a data-driven operating culture across markets, enabling leadership teams to use insights to guide strategy, identify risk, and accelerate improvement.
• Embrace innovation and use of AI to solve business problems. Partner with platform and regional teams to drive development of AI integration across the markets.

Organizational Effectiveness & Capacity Strategy – 10%

• In collaboration with the Regional Market President, support capacity planning, organizational design and process optimization, and talent development to support multi-market execution and growth.
• Ensure the regional organization is structured and staffed to execute at scale, with the capability and bench strength to sustain long-term performance.

Experience

• 8+ years of progressive healthcare operations experience, with 5+ years leading multi-market risk adjustment, quality, or value-based care programs at a senior level.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing multi-market operating strategy within a matrixed, growth-stage healthcare organization.
• Proven experience working alongside senior physician partner or provider-facing relationships in a supporting operational capacity, with accountability for translating executive-level commitments into execution.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MHA, or equivalent) preferred.
• Six Sigma / Lean certification preferred and/or experience with process design, optimization and tracking performance and impact.

• Strong financial acumen, including P&L, budget management, and margin optimization.
• Expertise in risk / value based care - risk adjustment, Quality/STAR measures, and healthcare data (claims/EMR), with the ability to translate technical performance data into strategic insight.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-market operational strategy and drive large-scale organizational transformation.
• Skilled at translating executive-level strategy and physician partner commitments into structured operating plans, KPIs, and accountable execution frameworks.
• Advanced analytics fluency; able to synthesize data across markets to shape strategic priorities and communicate performance narratives to diverse audiences.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; effective across internal and external audiences in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Strong reasoning and analytical thinking, with the ability to apply structured problem-solving to complex, ambiguous operational and strategic challenges.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).

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