Associate Director Data Onboarding

About Cedar Gate Technologies

Cedar Gate Technologies is an IQVIA business that enables payers providers employers and service administrators to excel at value-based care. Our unified technology and services platform enhances and automates data management activities to deliver employer and provider analytics care management and payment technology necessary to pursue every payment model and optimize performance in all lines of business. From primary care attribution to bundled payments to capitation our platform is designed to improve clinical financial and operational outcomes for all.

Position Summary

As the Associate Director Data Onboarding you will have the opportunity to lead meaningful work that improves how healthcare organizations use data to drive performance and outcomes. You will work alongside smart motivated people who value ownership transparency and execution excellence.

Cedar Gate Technologies an IQVIA business is scaling fast and our data onboarding function sits at the center of everything we deliver to clients. We are looking for a leader who is energized by complexity ownership and growth and who wants to shape how healthcare data gets acquired onboarded and turned into actionable results at scale.

As the senior SME between clients technology and operations this leader translates complex data requirements into executable plans and provides oversight across all data onboarding initiatives including the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) program. The role requires setting vision governing outcomes and leading and developing a team of people managers while driving operational rigor risk management and continuous improvement through complex implementations and escalations.

This is not a maintenance role. This is building the future of healthcare data

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own and govern the enterprise data onboarding operating model including standards decision frameworks success metrics and escalation mechanisms.
• Set strategic direction for data onboarding initiatives translating business and platform priorities into delivery expectations and operating plans.
• Establish and enforce enterprisewide frameworks methodologies and controls to ensure consistency scalability and risk management across onboarding efforts.
• Provide executivelevel oversight across all onboarding workstreams ensuring alignment to PMO governance delivery timelines and quality expectations.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex data risks crossfunctional issues and clientimpacting decisions driving resolution and accountability.
• Oversee performance management through defined KPIs related to data quality readiness implementation integrity and timetovalue.
• Lead and develop a management layer of data onboarding and program leaders including succession planning capability development and organizational design.
• Maintain strategic relationships with thirdparty data providers to support enterprise data acquisition needs and operational reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement through operating metrics retrospectives and evolution of documentation standards and enablement materials.

Job Location

Burlington MA (Boston)

Work Arrangement

Hybrid (3 days in office 2 remote)

Required Experience / Qualifications

• 7 or more years of progressive experience in healthcare data operations analytics implementation or solution delivery
• At least 3 years of demonstrated leadership responsibility in a professional environment
• Proven ability to lead complex multi-stakeholder delivery programs at scale
• Strong understanding of healthcare data domains (e.g. analytics population health capitation revenue cycle or value-based care)
• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated success operating at both strategic and execution levels including executive communication and frontline decision-making
• Exceptional written verbal and presentation skills; comfort engaging with client and internal executives
• Strong organizational prioritization and operational management skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and related business tools

Preferences Either Have or Can Learn & Develop

• Prior experience with data acquisition from third-party data providers within the healthcare industry.
• MBA or Masters degree from a top university
• Experience mentoring or leading other managers in a professional environment

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