VP, Strategic Intelligence & Market Insights

Position Summary The Vice President, Strategic Intelligence & Market Insights is responsible for building and leading an enterprise capability that identifies, interprets, and translates market, competitive, customer, technology, regulatory, and ecosystem intelligence into strategic business action. Reporting to the EVP, Enterprise Strategy, Ventures & Innovation and serving as a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), this leader will establish a modern, enterprise-wide intelligence function that enables leadership to anticipate change, identify opportunities, mitigate emerging risks, and make more informed strategic decisions. This role extends beyond traditional market research and competitive intelligence. The VP will develop a comprehensive understanding of the evolving healthcare ecosystem, including market concentration dynamics, emerging competitors, adjacent industry disruption, technology innovation, regulatory developments, customer needs, and shifting sources of value creation. By connecting signals across the broader ecosystem, this leader will help the enterprise understand not only what is happening today, but where markets are heading, how industry structures and value pools may evolve, and what strategic actions and investments are required to create future competitive advantage. This leader will also cultivate a robust external network across healthcare, technology, innovation, venture, academic, provider, payer, and startup ecosystems to bring real-world insights and emerging perspectives into the organization. Through active engagement with industry leaders, ecosystem partners, investors, entrepreneurs, academics, and innovators, the VP will establish a continuous flow of external learning that complements market intelligence and strengthens the enterprise's ability to anticipate and respond to change. The VP will be responsible for modernizing the enterprise intelligence capability through the strategic application of advanced analytics, data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. This leader will build scalable intelligence infrastructure that integrates internal and external data sources, accelerates the identification of meaningful signals, and enables faster, more predictive insights that support enterprise strategy, innovation, investment, and growth decisions. Equally important, this role will serve as the enterprise's applied learning engine, ensuring intelligence is translated into tangible business outcomes. The VP will create mechanisms that move insights beyond reporting and into action by informing enterprise strategy, capital allocation, innovation priorities, partnership decisions, product direction, and growth investments. Success will be measured not only by the quality of intelligence generated, but by the organization's ability to learn, adapt, and act on external signals faster and more effectively than competitors. As a trusted advisor to senior leadership and the Board, the Vice President will foster a stronger external orientation across the enterprise, helping leaders anticipate future trends, evaluate strategic choices, shape long-term strategic bets, and position the organization to capture emerging opportunities in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Core Accountabilities Enterprise Ecosystem Intelligence Build and lead an enterprise-wide strategic intelligence capability that provides a comprehensive view of the healthcare ecosystem, including competitive, customer, provider, payer, PBM, specialty, technology, regulatory, and adjacent market dynamics. Identify and interpret emerging market concentration trends, ecosystem shifts, disruptive forces, evolving value pools, and changing competitive dynamics that may impact enterprise strategy and growth. Develop forward-looking perspectives on how healthcare markets, business models, and sources of value creation are evolving and where future opportunities, risks, and competitive advantages are likely to emerge. Serve as the organization's primary source of external insight, helping leaders understand not only what is changing, but why it matters, what it means for the enterprise, and how the organization should respond. Build and maintain a broad network of external relationships across healthcare, technology, venture capital, innovation, academia, provider organizations, and adjacent industries to gather real-world insights, validate emerging trends, and identify opportunities before they become broadly visible in the market. Modern Intelligence Infrastructure & AI Enablement Design and build a modern intelligence ecosystem powered by advanced analytics, data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. Integrate internal and external data sources to create scalable capabilities that accelerate signal detection, trend identification, predictive analysis, and strategic decision support. Establish modern tools, operating models, and governance that improve the speed, quality, accessibility, and enterprise adoption of intelligence. Continuously evolve intelligence capabilities to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of strategic sensing, insight generation, and market awareness. Strategic Advisory, Foresight & Decision Support Serve as a trusted advisor to the Executive Leadership Team and Board by translating complex market developments into clear strategic implications and actionable recommendations. Inform enterprise strategy, long-range planning, growth priorities, innovation decisions, partnership opportunities, and capital allocation choices through objective, data-driven insights. Deliver scenario analyses, strategic foresight, and forward-looking assessments that help leadership anticipate change, evaluate alternative futures, and make informed strategic decisions. Challenge conventional thinking by bringing an external perspective into enterprise planning, decision-making, and investment discussions. Identi