Chief of Staff (McLean)

Overview

As the largest and leading value-based kidney care company, Somatus is empowering patients across the country living with chronic kidney disease to experience more days out of the hospital and healthier at home.

It takes a village of passionate and tenacious innovators to revolutionize an industry and support individuals living with a chronic disease to fulfill our purpose of creating More Lives, Better Lived. Does this sound like you?

Showing Up Somatus Strong

We foster an inclusive work environment that promotes collaboration and innovation at every level. Our values bring our mission to life and serve as the DNA for every decision we make:

• Authenticity: We believe in real dialogue. In any interaction, with patients, partners, vendors, or our teammates, we are true to who we are, say what we mean, and mean what we say.
• Collaboration: We appreciate what every person at Somatus brings to the table and believe that together we can do and achieve more.
• Empowerment: We make sure every voice gets heard and all ideas are considered, especially when it comes to our patients’ lives or our partners’ best interests.
• Innovation: We relentlessly look for ways to improve upon the status quo to continuously deliver new solutions.
• Tenacity: We see challenges as opportunities for growth and improvement — especially when new solutions will make a difference for our patients and partners.

Showing Up for You

We offer more than 25 Health, Growth, and Wealth Work Perks to help teammates learn, grow, and be the best version of themselves, including:

• Subsidized, personal healthcare coverage (medical, dental vision)
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Professional Development, CEU, and Tuition Reimbursement
• Curated Wellness Benefits supporting teammates physical and mental well-being
• Community engagement opportunities
• And more!

Seeking a Chief of Staff to partner with the head of operations in a fast-paced and dynamic healthcare environment. You will engage in and manage the most strategic initiatives in the company and track the minute details of the daily operations. You should possess the highest caliber of experience in executive level preparation and presenting of complex issues with solutions. Possession of an MBA is mandatory for the position.

This role requires you to be on-site at our headquarters in McLean, VA.

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on daily role supporting the Group President Operations and executive team in the management and expansion of operations, strategy, and the implementation of operating model and communicating this work to key stakeholders.
• Manage core workstreams related to optimizing organizational health and performance and will serve as lead on oversight of a multi-year strategic plan.
• Manage multiple workstreams in a highly complex/high intensity healthcare environment.
• Model effective information framing, appropriate decision-making protocols, and progress tracking.
• Assist and coordinate with Head of Operations on strategic prioritization and coordination of department level initiatives, management of annual planning, strategic cycles, and organizational performance management, and various critical and key special projects.
• Develop trackers, dashboards, and status reports of ongoing daily operational KPI’s and metrics.
• Develop the teachable, repeatable playbooks for strategic ideation, execution planning and management.
• Create, implement and lead the systems and frameworks for the Operations leadership team to operate within. This includes the strategic thinking, execution planning and the process for iterating the plans through management against results.
• Establish meeting cadence, agenda, norms, strategic frameworks, and use of data insights. Establish clear expectations for preparation and participation, as well as development of common materials and frameworks, as needed.
• Establish annual roadmap of activities and deliverables. Build clear visibility for execution.
• Lead the organizational preparation for team meetings, creating clear expectations for Operations leadership team preparation and presentation of materials.
• Develop aligned messaging for the team and serve as a critical sounding board for the Group President Operations.
• Help facilitate onboarding for new hires and operations leaders.

Qualifications:

• MBA from an accredited college.
• Executive presence and maintaining confidentiality while working with the executive team.
• Strong presentation and analytical skills, ability to synthesize complex data and summarize for executive consumption and decision making.
• Strong communications skills, including change management and stakeholder management skills.
• Project management experience and skills, including ability to catalyze and energize teams with clear plans, accountabilities and teamwork to efficiently execute.
• Ability to work both independently with minimal guidance, often cross functionally.
• Experience in structuring and executing complex analyses to support strategy in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Strong Quantitative and analytical skills; advanced modeling skills.
• Strong financial and data acumen.
• Detail orientation.
• Proven track record managing budgets.
• Exceptional communication, planning and organizational skills. Must be an effective verbal and written communicator and able to scale and adapt communications for a variety of audiences.
• Ability to give and receive feedback and constructive criticism.
• 5 years of experience in consulting/investment banking/business intelligence/strategy for high-growth operations or in startup environments.
• Candidates must also have very strong presentation skills using tools like PowerPoint, Excel, etc. along with the ability to create compelling and dynamic presentations.

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration is mandatory.
• Experience supporting healthcare executives and organizations.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Somatus, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.