WHY CHOOSE ECRI?

ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:

• Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
• On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
• Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
• Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.

ABOUT ECRI

At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.

As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.

The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare

ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:

• Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
• Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
• Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.

ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.

The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.

It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Associate Director, Strategy and Innovation (SI) reports to the Chief Strategy Officer. The work of the SI team focuses on the ability to identify prospective client needs in new spaces/markets, where ECRI can develop and provide solutions. This role will lead members of the SI team to take opportunities and turn them into results. The position is expected to have a strong understanding of ECRIs business segments and contributions made across the organization. Likewise, this role will be able to develop strong relationships across ECRI, enabling the coordination of efforts from various resources in many departments. The ability to execute on assigned work and drive results for the team is key. This role requires being able to drive and lead projects and tasks to completion to fully support new opportunities for ECRI, with a focus on new markets such as emergent care and new solutions that enable better healthcare delivery and build on ECRI unique competencies. Demonstrated people leadership and team-building experience are required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodation Statement:
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactory. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s):

• Lead new client consulting engagements.
• Gather and analyze market information, and work closely with other team members to deliver results that provide for penetration into new markets such as mobile health, ambulatory care and care at home.
• Assist in researching and evaluating business development opportunities.
• Perform due diligence of potential targets for acquisition and divestiture.
• Actively contribute to development of new advanced safety solutions and other innovation offerings.
• Assist in executing on new offerings to meet current and future demand for healthcare technology related resources and services.
• Work closely with colleagues across business lines to enhance or build on ECRIs core competencies and reach new markets.
• Cross-collaborate with other departments in the development of other new initiatives and service lines which are primarily focused on patient safety and reduction of preventable harm
• Facilitate discovery around customer business processes and related needs.
• Support team members in linking current initiatives to broader ones, always considering market trends and prospective needs.
• Assist in running pilots of new innovation.
• Assist in sales and business development activities during incubation phase of new service and product offerings.
• Create and assist in delivering presentations to prospective clients.
• Work in concert with other team members in executing on new business opportunities in a manner that supports a transition from awareness to assurance through ECRIs consultative services.
• Maintain a consistent focus on ECRIs mission to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare through capture of and execution on opportunities.
• Professionally develop, mentor and coach the Strategy and Innovation team.

Accountability Metrics:

• Develop / enhance internal relationships across ECRI resources.
• Execute on project deliverables as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

• 7+ years of recent experience in project management and project deliverables, in healthcare consulting, investment banking or healthcare system, or as a leader, manager or other similar role
• Clinical training or experience is a plus
• Hands on experience required not managing but actually doing
• Proven ability to work effectively with resources across and organization in order to drive toward results and outcomes
• Ability to create impactful business cases
• Sound business acumen
• Forward thinking
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines

Values:

• Impact: Strives to deliver strong results.
• Compassion: Cares deeply for others and ECRIs mission.
• Innovative: Seeks new avenues to create and excel.
• Integrity and Transparency: everything s/he does is in sync with the team, and supported by ECRIs vision.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree required. Masters in health administration or business administration desired.

Computer Skills:

• Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 Suite of products (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Certifications & Licenses:

• N/A

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Other Physical Requirements

• Vision (Near)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Virtual Work Environment

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