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Director, Enterprise Innovation and Venture Strategy

Job in Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, 60025, USA
Listing for: American-College-of-Chest-Physicians
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-05-24
Job specializations:
  • Business
    Corporate Strategy, Business Management, Business Systems/ Tech Analyst, Business Analyst
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Description

CHEST aspires to evolve its impact and long-term sustainability by identifying, validating, and developing new enterprise opportunities that address emerging needs across the healthcare ecosystem. This role focuses on structured exploration of future growth opportunities, enterprise innovation, institutional market sensing, and development of scalable new business concepts aligned with CHEST’s mission and strengths.

Primary

Purpose:

The Director, Enterprise Innovation & Venture Strategy leads the exploration, validation, and development of future enterprise growth opportunities for CHEST.

This role serves as the connective strategist between external market dynamics and CHEST’s internal strategic evolution. The Director identifies emerging trends, unmet institutional needs, and areas where CHEST may have a differentiated “right to win,” then collaborates cross-functionally to develop validation pathways, pilot concepts, and scalable business models.

Working across Strategy, Product Strategy, Program Strategy, Marketing, Finance, and executive leadership, the Director helps shape enterprise innovation priorities and builds structured frameworks for evaluating future organizational growth opportunities.

Bring strong knowledge of healthcare market dynamics, healthcare economics, innovation strategy, and business model development to all initiatives.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities Enterprise Innovation & Market Strategy
  • Lead structured environmental scanning and market sensing activities to identify emerging trends, disruptions, unmet needs, and future enterprise growth opportunities.
  • Engage health systems, payors, industry partners, and institutional stakeholders to validate market demand, willingness to pay, and strategic fit for potential new offerings.
  • Translate external market signals and healthcare economic drivers into enterprise innovation opportunities and business concepts.
  • Facilitate structured opportunity prioritization and strategic evaluation processes, in partnership with Product Strategy, including “where to play” and “right to win” assessments.
  • Develop evidence-based recommendations regarding future enterprise opportunities, including go/no-go decision frameworks.
    • Venture Development & Validation
  • Design and coordinate pilot concepts, validation plans, and structured learning frameworks for emerging enterprise opportunities.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to evaluate operational feasibility, staffing implications, infrastructure needs, and scalability considerations.
  • Build business cases, financial models, commercialization assumptions, and validation criteria for new initiatives.
  • Synthesize pilot findings, market insights, and stakeholder feedback into actionable strategic recommendations.
  • Help establish repeatable innovation and venture development processes that support long-term organizational growth.
    • Cross-Functional Strategic Leadership
  • Serve as a connective leader across functional directors, and executive leadership to align enterprise innovation efforts.
  • Facilitate discussions around organizational trade-offs, strategic prioritization, and future growth pathways.
  • Present strategic recommendations, innovation insights, and business case evaluations to executive leadership and governance groups.
    • Success in this role will be demonstrated by:
    • Validated enterprise growth opportunities with evidence of market demand
    • Development of financially grounded business cases and pilot frameworks
    • Clear go/no-go recommendations supported by structured analysis
    • Improved organizational capability around innovation and venture evaluation
    • Strong cross-functional alignmet around future growth opportunities
    • Creation of scalable frameworks for enterprise opportunity development
    Other Functions/Responsibilities:
  • Assist with other projects as needed.
    • Requirements Qualifications
    • Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), Healthcare Administration (MHA), Public Health (MPH), or related field strongly preferred.
    • 10+ years of experience in healthcare strategy, enterprise innovation, venture development, corporate strategy, or healthcare market development.
    • Strong understanding of healthcare economics,…
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