What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Strategy and Operations Associate position at athenahealth, Inc.?
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Customer Success Strategy and Operations Senior Associate
The Strategy & Operations team delivers insights and impact across Customer Success through defining, implementing, and monitoring key performance metrics, driving operational excellence, and enabling the execution and development of the Customer Success strategy. The Senior Strategy & Operations Associate serves as a business partner to the Customer Success organization and is responsible for helping translate the corporate strategy into division-specific corporate initiatives. Beginning with the onboarding process through ongoing customer management, the Senior Strategy & Operations Associate is tasked with defining and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) at every stage of the customer lifecycle while designing, implementing and ensuring adoption of Customer Success process standards and best practices. This person is comfortable analyzing and working with complex data to extract business insights that impact performance. The Strategy & Operations Associate is a key partner to their VP-level stakeholders, generating insights into customer, segment, and team performance. They are responsible for participating in the annual planning process, helping to set Customer Success team and individual goals, designing capacity model improvements, and identifying cross-functional dependencies.
Job Responsibilities
- Stakeholder management; act as a business partner to the Customer Success leadership team and executives, providing insights to help shape the strategy of the business.
- Engage with CS leadership on a recurring basis to review and analyze KPI trends and performance
- Develop a deep understanding of divisional priorities, goals, and focus areas to effectively partner in managing divisional performance
- Produce business reports and metrics packages on a regular basis
- Prepare business leaders to talk to service-specific performance
- Create easily consumable data visualizations to solve key business questions
- Actively participate in athenahealth’s annual planning process
- Maintain forecast models for key operational performance measures including Annual Revenue Implemented (ARI), Attrition, and Case volume.
- Participate in Customer Success’ goal setting process including offering insights and analyses to support target setting for key performance metrics
- Develop an understanding of our business reporting architecture to define metrics and design reporting to surface performance and create accountability
- Manipulate and update Tableau and Salesforce dashboards to deliver insights to the business
- Trend and analyze changes in metrics over time to identify root causes
- Run bi-weekly/quarterly performance meetings
- Create executive level deliverables and present at Customer Success Leadership meetings
- Support the execution of operational and strategic initiatives by delivering against workplans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, performing analyses, and providing recommendations
- Lead and support ad hoc projects and analyses aimed at improving operational performance and business outcomes.
- Provide insights on project outcome measures
- Assist in refreshing financial models to evaluate projects’ value-realization potential
- Work with the business to estimate impact of initiatives
- Identify and surface areas of cross-divisional dependencies and project risk
- Clear and consistent updates to VP-level leadership
- Support project teams responsible for managing and executing on strategic initiative
Typical Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance/Accounting Operations/Supply Chain/Engineering, or related field
- 4 years of professional experience
- 2 years of experience in financial services, management consulting, corporate finance/strategy, analytical/business process improvement, or operations strategy
- Familiarity and comfort using data visualization programs (Power BI, Tableau). Experience designing highly utilized, business critical dashboards/reports preferred
- Comfort working with c-suite and executive level leadership
- Healthcare industry experience preferred, but not required
- Experience working with large and complex data sets a must
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity—that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law. We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process. If you are unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at taoperations@athenahealth.com for assistance.
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