POSTING DATE

04/25/2025
2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America
Over the last decade, we set out to be the world’s greatest dialysis company. Now, we are unwavering in our pursuit of a healthier tomorrow. When you join the DaVita Village, you’re joining a winning team. Through our commitment to training, growth and quality, we consistently achieve superior clinical outcomes while giving teammates the opportunity to excel in an award-winning environment that enables them to thrive both professionally and personally.
Here’s what you can expect as a Senior Manager, Special Projects at DaVita:
DaVita’s procurement team also known as PRISM (Procurement, Risk reduction, Innovation, and Supply Management) is on a multi-year journey of transforming our procurement, strategic sourcing, and supply management processes to be the best for our patients and partners. We are looking for an innovative leader with strategic thinking and project leadership experience to join our leadership team.
The Senior Manager, Special Projects will be an ambitious and results driven leader who will act as a business partner and liaison between PRISM, Operations, Information Technology (IT) and key clinical and business stakeholders. This role shapes business strategy, aligns capabilities and delivers quality solutions to meet goals and achieve successful outcomes for the Village. This leader will report to the Senior Director, Operations Excellence and support projects and initiatives across the portfolio, including multi-year strategy, operating mechanism development and deployment, and Procurement technology.
Responsibilities:

The following duties and responsibilities generally reflect the expectations of this position but are not intended to be all-inclusive.

• Understand, assess, prioritize and validate business demands and requirements through direct interaction with business stakeholders and proactive analysis for opportunities to standardized, save cost and meet business needs
• Collaborate with corporate (Atlas) and field leaders to develop and implement forward-thinking improvements that advance DaVita’s ability to optimize our supply management capabilities and visibility in order to reduce risk to our patients, teammates and enterprise
• Monitor metrics, track progress of initiatives, and prepare presentations for senior management
• Align business group and Village needs and the impact on business processes to establish to strategic priorities
• Act as ‘general athlete’ to support projects / initiatives across the Procurement portfolio
• Directly support the VP of Procurement on executive special projects, content development, and project phasing
• Prepare and present meaningful updates to senior leadership
• Ability to identify gaps and connect the dots across siloed organization
• Travel required up to 10%

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of strategy development and / or project execution
• Experience as a Manager with procurement, supply-chain, strategic sourcing, project management preferred
• Demonstrated Track record in the following:
• Communication skills, written and oral
• Leading through influence
• Ability to prioritize and adapt based on changing priorities
• Ability to develop and deploy new initiatives at scale
• Ability to proactively identify and analyze issues in the workplace and identify and implement solutions collaboratively
• Project development and project execution
• Philosophies that align with our core values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment and Fun
• Thrive in a company that places equal weight on cultivating a compassionate culture and fostering a fast paced entrepreneurial culture

Join us as we pursue our vision “To Build the Greatest Healthcare Community the World has Ever Seen.”
Why wait? Explore a career with DaVita today.
Go to http://careers.davita.com to learn more or apply.

• Understand, assess, prioritize and validate business demands and requirements through direct interaction with business stakeholders and proactive analysis for opportunities to standardized, save cost and meet business needs
• Collaborate with corporate (Atlas) and field leaders to develop and implement forward-thinking improvements that advance DaVita’s ability to optimize our supply management capabilities and visibility in order to reduce risk to our patients, teammates and enterprise
• Monitor metrics, track progress of initiatives, and prepare presentations for senior management
• Align business group and Village needs and the impact on business processes to establish to strategic priorities
• Act as ‘general athlete’ to support projects / initiatives across the Procurement portfolio
• Directly support the VP of Procurement on executive special projects, content development, and project phasing
• Prepare and present meaningful updates to senior leadership
• Ability to identify gaps and connect the dots across siloed organization
• Travel required up to 10