Managing Director, Healthcare Innovations

About this role

Join AIR as a Managing Director with our Healthcare Innovations team. Our team works collaboratively to unravel the intertwined challenges of health care quality, costs, and access. Our team of experts–economists, data scientists, statisticians, public health experts, sociologists, nurses, physicians, and psychologists – advance evidence and save lives by leading rigorous research and evaluation; program implementation and monitoring; results-driven technical assistance and training; and leading-edge data science and technology tools.

The Managing Director will provide leadership on business development activities including leading capture teams, serving as technical and/or business lead for proposals, coordinating and managing capture and proposal teams, and participating in partnering discussions. Opportunities can be expected to include complex implementation, monitoring, technical assistance (TA), and/or evaluation initiatives for federal health agencies. In additional, the Managing Director will serve in project leadership roles for large, complex projects within the Healthcare Innovations portfolio.

This role is ideally suited for candidates who have successfully led large and complex business development efforts and projects for major CMS health projects. Candidates with expertise with Medicaid policy and data, value-based specialty care, or pharmaceuticals are especially encouraged to apply.

This position has the flexibility to work remotely within the United States (U.S.) or from one of AIR’s U.S. office locations. This does not include U.S. territories.

About AIR:

Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research and delivers technical assistance to address some of the most pressing challenges in the United States and globally. We generate evidence and apply data-driven solutions that expand opportunities and improve lives for all.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Direction & Federal Business Growth

• Working with AIR’s program leadership to create and implement business development strategies for established areas and specific new areas of growth, including:

• Coordinating pursuit plans and pipelines for federal opportunities, particularly for the CMS Innovation Center.

• Supporting bid/no‑bid decisions and ensuring alignment with AIR capabilities and priorities.

• Leading proposal pursuits: conceptualizing bid strategies, developing research, implementation, and monitoring approaches, drafting proposal content, and conducting technical reviews.

• Cultivating and maintaining relationships with potential partners,…