Sr. Manager - Clinical Adoption & Readiness

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The Sr. Manager of Clinical Change Adoption and Readiness will support transformational and operational priorities across the organization by strengthening change management through change readiness, adoption planning, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support across complex initiatives. This role partners closely with business, technology, operational, and communications stakeholders to improve how change is understood, supported, and adopted across impacted teams. A significant portion of the role is dedicated to helping OneCM and related transformation efforts move forward through structured change planning, readiness checkpoints, stakeholder alignment, Pioneer team network engagement, feedback integration, and adoption support.

Success in this position requires strong cross‑functional coordination, change management discipline, business acumen, leadership‑facing communication, and the ability to influence progress and readiness without direct authority.

• This is a hybrid role working some days at home and others in the posted job locations.

• Lead change management readiness and adoption planning across complex transformation initiatives, including OneCM‑related work streams.
• Assess change readiness, current state adoption and identify resistance across impacted clinical teams.
• Oversee Pioneer SME teams across lines of business supporting early engagement, readiness, adoption, and feedback gathering across impacted areas for Medicaid, Medicare, and Commercial lines of business.
• Develop and maintain change management plans, clinical engagement approaches, and adopt strategies that support behavior change.
• Translate strategies, learnings, activities into practical clinical change management playbooks.
• Create various feedback loops and identify barriers to adoption, areas of resistance, and readiness gaps, and translate them into practical support plans and mitigation actions.
• Help ensure change management readiness activities are sequenced appropriately alongside project and implementation milestones.

• Partner with clinical operation stakeholders to align on change impacts, support needs, and readiness priorities.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across impacted teams to improve engagement, trust, and follow‑through during periods of change.
• Build and maintain feedback loops through Pioneer teams, champion networks, and stakeholder engagement channels to improve readiness planning and adoption support.
• Partner with Learning and Performance for ongoing planning, readiness actions, and implementation support.
• Facilitate discussions that clarify clinician concerns, readiness risks, and support needs across complex, cross‑functional initiatives.
• Help ensure leaders and impacted teams have the context, support, and alignment needed to move through change effectively and create playbooks for ongoing support.
• Support broader feedback loops that bring stakeholder input into change planning and implementation decisions.

• Coordinate change‑related activities such as readiness for change using the AKDAR modality, readiness checkpoints, stakeholder follow‑up, training support alignment, and implementation support planning.
• Partner with project and business teams to ensure change‑related deliverables are visible, organized, and aligned to broader program timing.
• Support issue triage and action planning for readiness, adoption, or change‑related concerns that could affect delivery.
• Help translate broader program direction into practical change actions for impacted stakeholder groups.
• Reinforce follow‑through…