Virta Health is on a mission to transform diabetes care and reverse the type 2 diabetes epidemic. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse type 2 diabetes through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and live diabetes-free. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes in 100M people by 2025.
Our Director, ASO Partnerships for health plan growth will be the connection point and collaborator between Health Plan Clients, Health Plan Sales Teams, and internal Virta stakeholders. The role experiences a wide variety of tasks and collaboration with internal Virta Stakeholders; Customer Success, Employer Sales, Health Plan Sales, Sales Enablement, and Marketing. Given Virta’s clinical rigor and outcomes story, this role allows for an education interface with our key external health plan clients to pull in more ASO Groups and additional lines of business for Virta.
Responsibilities
As the Director, ASO Partnerships for Virta you will be responsible for building relationships with and selling through our health plan partnerships to influence their customer base, ultimately adding more clients and patients to Virta. You will have the opportunity to help build our commercialization efforts and capitalize on the national buy-in Virta is receiving for our industry-changing and life-improving work with diabetes reversal. More specifically:
- Provide training, sales enablement, and specific marketing material for Health Plan clients to have their sales teams sell Virta to groups
- Align with Health Plan on a sales strategy and collaboration between our sales teams to maximize co-selling opportunities to groups
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for Virta to our key Health Plan contacts for education, content, marketing, legal, and Q/A
- Maintain Health Plan ASO Partnership relationships and keep Health Plan updated on the latest with Virta by providing latest news/assets/marketing best practices
- Present the Virta value proposition to key Health Plan sales teams on a frequent basis
- Further promote Virta as an innovative online diabetes reversal solution
- Work closely with Virta team members to provide client/prospect feedback and potential product or service expansions to better meet the needs of our partners
- Performance Management - present regular performance benchmarks with ASO group to course correct (improve communications access), demonstrate success (retention/performance guarantees) and improve expansion
90 Day Plan
Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:
- Prioritize current ASO landscape and map out strategy plan
- Collaborate on a 2022 strategic plan for with cross functional teams - Customer Success, Marketing, Research, Legal
- Begin executing the business plan for success by engaging with ASO partners and starting to fill gaps and enable client pull through.
Must-Haves
- Understanding of indirect selling through partnerships
- 5+ years experience working on the health plan or vendor side
- 2+ years experience in healthcare or healthcare-related field
- Quantifiable history of hitting personal sales targets
- Ability to present clearly to key decision makers
- Consultative selling experience, including collaboration with an indirect sales team
- Ability to proactively manage pipeline and willingness to leverage Salesforce in a strategic data-driven approach
- Demonstrated collaboration with internal colleagues (marketing, product, ops, etc.) to support sales momentum
- A passion for improving the health of millions of people with the ability to thrive in a mature startup environment
Nice-to-Haves
- Knowledge of Type 2 diabetes and of potential competitors
- Knowledge of other point solutions beyond diabetes
Values-driven culture
Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:
- You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
- You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
- You prioritize positive impact over busy work
- You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
- You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
- You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
- You take risks and rapidly iterate
As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.