Associate Vice President, Strategic & Market

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As the Associate Vice President, Strategic Growth & Market Opportunity you will lead Vizient's capability for identifying, assessing, and informing the prioritization of growth opportunities within the Strategic Market Research & Industry Insights (SMRII) function in the Office of Strategy Management (OSM). Your work will encompass both proactive opportunity identification and business-unit generated opportunities.

You'll serve as the primary accountable lead for assessing a broad portfolio of organic, inorganic, adjacent, cross-business-unit and other growth opportunities. You will establish a repeatable, AI-enabled assessment process that integrates evidence from Market & Client Research, Strategic Competitive Intelligence, the Vizient Growth Outlook (VGO) and relevant business-unit context. You will translate this evidence into comparable assessments, producing decision-ready insights and informing which opportunities to advance, defer, or stop.

As the AVP you will coordinate the structured handoff of selected opportunities to Corporate/BU Strategy, Corporate Development, and relevant business-unit partners for formal strategy development, business-cases, diligence, partnership, and/or execution.

• Design, lead and continuously improve the growth-opportunity assessment process, including proactively identifying opportunities based on VGO and responding to business requests to explore new opportunities.

• Serve as the primary accountable lead for integrated opportunity assessments, defining the opportunity, decision questions, scope, evaluation criteria, stakeholders, and required evidence.

• Assess the broader organizational connectivity of each opportunity, including relevant client needs, business-unit strategies, existing products and services, capabilities, data and technology assets, client relationships, partnerships, dependencies, overlaps, and potential enterprise synergies.

• Coordinate contributions from Market & Client Research, Competitive Intelligence, VGO, internal performance and commercial data, business-unit leaders, Marketing Insights, R&D, Product, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development and other parts of the business as needed to fully inform opportunity assessments.

• Develop comparable assessments based on client need, market attractiveness and trajectory, competitive dynamics, Vizient's right to win, strategic fit, solution implications, potential value, investment requirements, risks, trade-offs, and dependencies, using validated inputs.

• Apply a decision framework (e.g., scale, stretch, systematize, and sequence/stop) to facilitate leadership decisions and recommendations on where Vizient should deepen existing capabilities, extend into adjacent spaces, coordinate across business units, develop new solutions, partner, acquire, defer, or discontinue activity.

• Establish repeatable, AI-enabled assessment workflows and maintain the opportunity pipeline, decision record, and structured handoff of prioritized opportunities to Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development and/or Business partners for formal strategy development, business-case development, diligence, partnership, or execution.

The role is located at our corporate headquarters in Irving, TX or our facilities in Chicago, IL or…