Manager, Operations Strategy and Innovation

Posting Date 09/09/2026

2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America

Manager, Operations Strategy and Innovation Denver, CO (Hybrid - Tuesday-Thursday in office)

The Manager, Operations Innovation, will work on high priority COO initiatives by collaborating with senior operating leaders of DaVita Healthcare Partners. Topics will likely include:

• Operationalizing growth strategies across Kidney Care, International, Healthcare Partners and DaVita Strategic Business Units

• Large-scale operating model changes to drive efficiencies create healthcare transformation

• Integrated care business model development

• Introduction and incubation of disruptive healthcare strategies

• Commercializing portfolio of assets

• Business unit-specific operations strategy

The Manager will lead a team of highly motivated individuals with management consulting, investment banking and clinical experience, and is expected to effectively manage individual work streams and communicate recommendations to business unit leads and senior executives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrates first-principles thinking in analyzing problems and engaging with teammates

• Leverages hypotheses-based approach to identify, validate and quantify opportunities

• Develops and improves credible and pragmatic analytical approaches and frameworks

• Leverages continuous improvement tools (Lean, Six-Sigma, PDCA) to structure and incubate improvement opportunities

• Builds complex models and conducts financial planning and analyses to assess impact on business metrics

• Conveys findings in a cohesive story, including summarizing insights from analysis; builds appropriate horizontal and vertical logic in presentation decks

• Presents comfortably and compellingly to senior audiences

• Works closely with teammates in the clinics and develops long-standing relationships with operators and clinicians

• 10%-25% travel may be required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-6 years of work experience in management consulting, process engineering, investment banking or a corporate strategy role preferred

• Experience supporting large-scale business transformation teams with tangible impact on operating/financial performance

• Healthcare background preferred

Join us as we pursue our vision "To Build the Greatest Healthcare Community the World has Ever Seen."

Go to http://careers.davita.com to learn more or apply.

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.

The Salary Range for the role is $85,000.00 - $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.