Lead Strategist, Medical Network and Managed Services

About Judi Health

Judi Health is a health technology company providing benefit administration solutions to employers, unions, health plans, and government entities. Judi Health replaces fragmented, outdated systems with the industry's first Unified Claims Processing™ architecture, seamlessly consolidating pharmacy and medical benefit administration on a single, secure platform. By delivering true price transparency, eliminating unnecessary middleman fees, and leveraging advanced AI-powered care delivery, Judi Health helps clients achieve unprecedented operational efficiency and service levels.

At Judi Health, we're deploying the infrastructure our country needs to deliver the healthcare we all deserve. We are the intelligence platform powering benefits plans for millions of Americans and proudly leading the next generation of care. To learn more, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Location:

Hybrid (at least 3 days per week in our NYC, Denver, or Charlotte offices)

The Lead Strategist, Medical Network and Managed Services is a, non-executive individual contributor role that serves as a strategic and operational partner to the Senior Vice President, Medical Network and Managed Services. The role converts broad business priorities into actionable work plans, operating cadence, decision points, executive-ready communications, and follow-through mechanisms that support provider network, managed services, client readiness, and cross-functional execution objectives.

This position exercises independent judgment in evaluating complex operational, financial, provider network, and stakeholder inputs; determining appropriate methods and sequencing; identifying risks, dependencies, and decision needs; and recommending practical solutions. The Senior Advisor influences outcomes through analysis, communication, project leadership, and stakeholder alignment rather than direct people-management authority or enterprise executive decision-making authority.

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the SVP by translating broad Medical Network and Managed Services priorities into actionable workplans, milestones, timelines, decision points, and follow-up routines.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the operating cadence for Medical Network and Managed Services, including leadership meeting agendas, priority tracking, KPI reporting routines, governance preparation, and action-item follow-through.
• Lead functional work streams or special projects of moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity, including provider network optimization, managed services readiness, process improvement, implementation support, and enterprise priority work streams.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives involving Provider Contracting, Provider Relations, Network Operations, Managed Services, Client Services, Product, Technology, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Sales, and other internal stakeholders to clarify ownership, timelines, dependencies, and escalation paths.
• Drive proposal management activities for RFPs and RFIs by coordinating internal and external stakeholders, synthesizing business, operational, and technology inputs, tracking deliverables, and supporting timely leadership decisions.
• Develop executive-ready briefing materials, presentations, talking points, status updates, decision memos, and business summaries that synthesize complex provider network and managed services matters into clear recommendations.
• Analyze operational, financial, network, provider engagement, and implementation data to identify trends, risks, dependencies, and opportunities to improve execution, readiness, service delivery, or stakeholder alignment.
• Monitor progress against department goals, service commitments, implementation milestones, and strategic initiatives; identify barriers and recommend practical solutions or escalation paths based on business impact and urgency.
• Facilitate alignment across leaders and teams by communicating difficult concepts, negotiating priorities or trade-offs, and influencing stakeholders to adopt a shared path forward where priorities, timelines, or ownership are unclear.
• Support preparation for internal governance forums, executive updates, client or provider-related discussions, and other leadership meetings by gathering inputs, validating content, and ensuring messages are accurate, consistent, and decision-ready.
• Identify opportunities to improve team processes, communication channels, documentation standards, reporting routines, and decision-making practices across Medical Network and Managed Services.
• Maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment when handling sensitive provider, client, business, personnel, or strategic information.
• Ability to travel as needed to support client engagements, implementation activities, provider/network initiatives, and business priorities.

• Operates with significant independence on assigned work streams, using judgment to…