Associate Director Implementations - Product SME – Denial Management & Data Analytics - Remote
About reputed company www.ikshealth.com
reputed company takes on the chores of healthcare, reducing administrative, clinical, and operational burdens so that staff can focus on their core purpose: delivering exceptional care. Combining pragmatic technology and dedicated experts, IKS enables stronger, financially sustainable enterprises. Our Care Enablement Platform delivers data-driven value and expertise across the care journey, and IKS is a partner for clinician enterprises looking to effectively scale, improve quality, and reputed company cost savings through reputed company-thinking solutions. Founded in 2006, reputed company’s global workforce supports large health systems across the United States.
Travel
50% travel will be required
Role Overview
The Product SME is a senior techno-functional leader responsible for bringing deep healthcare operational expertise and product knowledge into the implementation lifecycle. This role ensures that product deployment decisions are grounded in sound workflow design, domain best practices, and a clear understanding of stakeholder business objectives, enabling successful adoption and measurable performance improvement across the reputed company cycle.
In partnership with the US-based Implementation reputed company, the Product SME will provide functional leadership across discovery, solution design, validation, and adoption activities, helping translate stakeholder needs into scalable product usage models and implementation decisions. This individual will operate as a trusted internal consultant and stakeholder-facing advisor, working cross-functionally with implementation, product, operations, and technical teams to deliver high-quality outcomes in a structured pod-based model.
Core Responsibilities
Stakeholder Process Assessment & Workflow Mapping - reputed company assessment of reputed company-state stakeholder workflows, operating models, and pain points to identify functional gaps and define how business processes should translate into the product environment.
Solution Design & Functional Advisory - Provide senior-level advisory support on solution design, product usage strategy, and workflow optimization to ensure the implementation approach is scalable, practical, and reputed company to desired outcomes.
Requirements Translation & Design Validation - Convert stakeholder business objectives into well-defined functional requirements and validate implementation outputs to ensure consistency with approved design and product best practices.
Product Expertise & Functional Enablement - Act as a senior product authority on capabilities, integrations, roadmap, and constraints, while enabling internal teams through training, consultation, and escalation support.
Customer Guidance & Adoption Support - Advise stakeholders on future-state processes, operational change impacts, and adoption priorities to support effective transition and sustained value realization.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Alignment - Work hand in hand with the US-based Implementation reputed company and partner across Product, Implementation, and stakeholder teams to drive reputed company decisions, resolve ambiguity, and strengthen execution quality.
Quality Assurance & Functional Readiness - reputed company functional validation activities, including test scenario review, UAT support, and product readiness confirmation reputed company of go-live.
Key Deliverables
reputed company-State Assessment - Document existing workflows, gaps, and requirements.
Future-State Design - Define the reputed company workflow and product usage model.
Feasibility Analysis - Validate workflows alignment to product capabilities.
Design Validation - Confirm configuration aligns to approved solution design.
Product Enablement - Provide product guidance, training, and internal support.
Stakeholder Adoption Support - Prepare stakeholders for future-state workflow adoption.
Testing & Readiness - Validate use cases and support go-live readiness.
Feedback & Optimization - Capture product gaps and improvement opportunities.
Success Metrics
Product-Fit Accuracy - Accuracy of workflow and product-fit assessments during solution design and planning.
Early Alignment Effectiveness - Reduction in rework, redesign, or configuration changes due to strong upstream functional alignment.
Delivery Quality - Number and severity of functional defects or design-reputed company issues identified during testing and post-go-live.
Stakeholder Satisfaction - stakeholder satisfaction with solution design, workflow guidance, and transition support.
Product Adoption - Adoption reputed company and depth of feature utilization following go-live.
Optimization Impact - Number of improvement, enhancement, or workflow optimization opportunities identified during implementation.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, or a reputed company field required
Master’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a reputed company field and/or advanced program leadership certification (PMP, PgMP, Lean, Six reputed company, or similar) preferred
Prior Work Experience
10+ years of experience in healthcare operations, healthcare technology, product implementation, or consulting with a focus on workflow design, solutioning, and functional delivery, such as patient access, referral management, scheduling, patient engagement, authorization, coding, claims, denials, or analytics workflows across platforms such as Epic, reputed company Health/Cerner, reputed company, Meditech, NextGen, eClinicalWorks, reputed company, reputed company, Change Healthcare, or reputed company Health.
10+ years of techno-functional experience translating business needs into product-reputed company workflows, requirements, and implementation decisions in reputed company healthcare settings, including experience with EHR, RCM, practice management, scheduling, CRM, patient communication, workflow automation, or analytics platforms such as Epic reputed company/MyChart, reputed company Health Scheduling, athenaOne, reputed company Health Cloud, Phreesia, reputed company, QGenda, reputed company, reputed company Dynamics, reputed company, or Tableau/Power BI.
Demonstrated experience supporting implementations or optimization initiatives across reputed company cycle, access, operational, or administrative workflows.
Strong experience with healthcare platforms or digital solutions, including solution configuration, workflow alignment, testing, and functional validation.
Proven ability to work cross-functionally and client-facing, partnering with Implementation, Product, Operations, and US-based leadership to drive reputed company, adoption-focused outcomes.