As the Vice President of Commercial Strategies and Initiatives, you will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping the future of value-based care. In this high-impact executive position, you will drive Aledade’s growth, market expansion, and competitive advantage by leading and operationalizing flagship programs like Aledade Complete and Patient Choice Services. Reporting directly to the Chief Commercial Officer, you will serve as a key architect behind our long-term commercial innovation, designing scalable venture strategies and building new, non-MSSP revenue streams. If you are a visionary healthcare strategist looking to lead high-performing teams, scale transformative products across independent primary care practices, and directly influence how care is delivered at scale, this role offers an unmatchable opportunity to make a lasting impact.
We are flexible with respect to geographic location, and the ideal candidate will be comfortable working remotely/work from home within the US or be based from Bethesda, MD office.
Strategic Initiative Leadership & Operational Execution:
- Lead the end-to-end operationalization and scaling of core strategic initiatives, specifically focusing on the deployment, integration, and optimization of Aledade Complete and Patient Choice Services.
- Oversee the cross-functional alignment of product, field teams, and clinical operations to ensure seamless delivery and high adoption of these initiative models across independent primary care practices.
- Create robust performance frameworks, implementation metrics, and data-driven feedback loops to evaluate initiative efficacy, accelerate timeline execution, and maximize value-based care outcomes.
- Foster a highly coordinated, agile execution culture that quickly addresses operational bottlenecks, adapts to practice feedback, and champions the long-term vision of Aledade’s premier care solutions.
Commercial Strategy & Value Innovation:
- Anticipate market shifts outside of our core MSSP business, leading the strategic forecasting and capability builds required to capture and scale the commercial insurance sector.
- Orchestrate the long-term design of next-generation products and ventures specifically engineered to increase value-based care adoption among commercial payers and partners.
- Architect complex business cases and internal enablement frameworks that transform these new commercial strategies into scalable, repeatable operational models.
- Spearhead the incubation of non-MSSP revenue streams and strategic priorities, building high-performing pipelines and a culture capable of driving Aledade's long-term commercial growth.
Market Growth:
- Drive the expansion strategy for alternative revenue streams and accelerate market entry blueprints into untapped geographic and clinical sectors.
- Champion go-to-market readiness frameworks, ensuring robust organizational design, high-level needs assessments, and seamless long-term implementation of new customer initiatives and partnerships.
- Govern the evaluation, prioritization, and underwriting of new strategic partnerships to meet evolving enterprise and business requirements.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
- 15+ years progressive experience in healthcare strategy, product development, and go-to-market strategy, plus a minimum of 8 years in management
- Deep knowledge of the healthcare landscape specifically with deploying new capabilities in a healthcare enterprise
Exceptional executive presence and the ability to translate highly complex concepts into simple narratives for diverse audiences - Proven experience implementing strategic initiatives with programmatic success
- Proven track-record of building and cultivating high performing teams
- Experience evaluating, designing and optimizing healthcare products for practices
- Proven product development leadership and success in go to market strategies
- AI & Tech Initiative: Demonstrated initiative in evaluating, adopting, or scaling AI strategies (e.g., predictive risk modeling, automated workflows, or administrative AI tools) to drive commercial product performance and operational scale.
Preferred Qualifications:
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
Who We Are:
Aledade, a public benefit corporation, exists to empower the most transformational part of our health care landscape - independent primary care. We were founded in 2014, and since then, we've become the largest network of independent primary care in the country - helping practices, health centers and clinics deliver better care to their patients and thrive in value-based care. Additionally, by creating value-based contracts across a wide variety of health plans, we aim to flip the script on the traditional fee-for-service model. Our work strengthens continuity of care, aligns incentives and ensures primary care physicians are paid for what they do best - keeping patients healthy. If you want to help create a health care system that is good for patients, good for practices and good for society - and if you're eager to join a collaborative, inclusive and remote-first culture - you've come to the right place.
What Does This Mean for You?
At Aledade, you will be part of a creative culture that is driven by a passion for tackling complex issues with respect, open-mindedness and a desire to learn. You will collaborate with team members who bring a wide range of experiences, interests, backgrounds, beliefs and achievements to their work - and who are all united by a shared passion for public health and a commitment to the Aledade mission.
In addition to time off to support work-life balance and enjoyment, we offer the following comprehensive benefits package designed for the overall well-being of our team members:
Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles
Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners
Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)
Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays
12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service
Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
401(k) with up to 4% match
Stock options
And much more!
At Aledade, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them! We strive to attract, develop and retain highly qualified individuals representing the diverse communities where we live and work. Aledade is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Employment policies and decisions at Aledade are based on merit, qualifications, performance and business needs. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
