Manager, Practice Engagement

Posting Date

07/21/2025

417 Ware Ave, Rockford, Illinois, 61107-6413, United States of America

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We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position, you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply.

Our people make all the difference in our success.
 

The Manager, Practice Engagement, will be a part of the Practice Engagement lane on Clinical Transformation within DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (IKC).  The Clinical Transformation team leads DaVita in the transformation of kidney care by enabling care teams to engage patients in reaching their health goals and reducing overall cost to the healthcare system. 

Being the Partner of Choice to nephrologist practices allows our care teams to improve the clinical outcomes for our patients and grow this line of business.  The Practice Engagement lane seeks to strengthen these practice partnerships through practice collaboration, reporting, technology, innovative care models, etc.  This Manager will drive the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of such initiatives.

The Practice Engagement lane is highly visible and works cross-functionally with stakeholders across the organization, including field operators, clinical, financial, IT, and compliance.  The team is made up of highly motivated individuals with consulting, process engineering, change management, and clinical experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Initiative Strategy, Project Management, and Execution: Drives the development, pilot, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of key initiatives that strengthen practice partnerships and associated clinical outcomes with Director support.  Translates broader goals and objectives into measurable deliverables/targets.  Creates and maintains a management process for progressing work activities.
• Teamwork: Works collaboratively with a broad set of cross-functional stakeholders and partners for insight generation, planning, and implementation of your scope and other common priorities.
• Business-Driven Communication: Conveys findings to leadership in a cohesive story, including summarizing insights and communicating progress towards goals and results.  Builds appropriate horizontal and vertical logic in presentation decks.
• People Management: Formerly or informally manages analysts to advance projects.
• Strategic Thinking: Leverages a hypotheses-based approach to identify, validate, and quantify opportunities in partnership with leadership.  Maintains a broad, strategic perspective while identifying and focusing on crucial details.
• Other: Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree (required)
• 3-5 years experience in a strategic, program management, or operational leadership role (required)
• Advanced proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (required)
• At least one year of project management experience (required)
• Prior experience in healthcare services and/or working with payors, physician networks, preventative care models, and/or integrated care models (preferred)

Here is what you can expect when you join our Village:

• A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter.
• Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.
• Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.
• Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.
• A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being and your future.
• Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.

What We’ll Provide: 

More 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 StarLearning.  

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second.  We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong."  Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

Salary/ Wage Range

$82,000.00 - $121,000.00 / year

If a candidate is hired, they will be paid at least the minimum wage according to their geographical jurisdiction and the exemption status for the position.

• New York Exempt:
•　New York City and Long Island: $64,350.00/year
•　Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $64,350.00/year
•　Remainder of New York state: $60,405.80/year

New York Non-exempt:
•　New York City and Long Island: $16.50/hour
•　Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $16.50/hour
•　Remainder of New York state: $15.50/hour


Washington Exempt: $77,968.80/year

Washington Non-exempt:
•　Bellingham: $17.66/hour
•　Burien: $21.16/hour
•　Unincorporated King County: $20.29/hour
•　Renton: $20.90/hour
•　Seattle: $20.76/hour
•　Tukwila: $21.10/hour
•　Remainder of Washington state: $16.66/hour

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.