Head of Strategic Affiliations & Ecosystem Partnerships

HEAD OF STRATEGIC AFFILIATIONS & ECOSYSTEM PARTNERSHIPS, STRATEGY OFFICE

ABOUT CHARTIS

The challenges facing US healthcare are longstanding and all too familiar. We are Chartis, and we believe in better. We work with more than 1,900 organizations annually to develop and activate transformative strategies, operating models, and organizational enterprises that make US healthcare more affordable, accessible, safe, and human. With more than 1,450 professionals, we help providers, payers, technology innovators, retail companies, and investors create and embrace solutions that tangibly and materially reshape healthcare for the better. Our family of brands—Chartis, Jarrard, Greeley, and HealthScape Advisors—is 100% focused on healthcare and each has a longstanding commitment to helping transform healthcare in big and small ways. Believe in better.

Chartis has offices in Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., and Nashville.

Remote work is allowed.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Head of Strategic Affiliations & Ecosystem Partnerships is an enterprise strategy leader responsible for designing, governing, and activating Chartis' external ecosystem strategy in line with Chartis’ enterprise strategy. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, this executive will build a disciplined portfolio of strategic affiliations that accelerates enterprise growth, strengthens Chartis' differentiation, and improves measurable client outcomes.

The primary objective of this role is to position Chartis as a trusted curator, integrator, and outcome-accountable activation partner across the healthcare technology and innovation ecosystem. The executive will work with the Executive Leadership Team to identify solution areas and business segments that may benefit from a more robust affiliation/partnership.

The role will manage affiliations across technology companies, AI-native platform companies, hyperscalers, healthcare technology and tech-enabled services firms, law firms, banks, venture capital, select academic and innovation partners, and strategically relevant industry associations. The objective of these affiliations is to extend Chartis’ client impact across AI activation and adoption, workflow redesign to optimize performance, and measurable value realization.

This person will connect this ecosystem directly to Chartis business unit leadership, product and technology leadership, AI and digital leadership, and enabling functions including legal, finance, marketing, and risk management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

ENTERPRISE ECOSYSTEM STRATEGY

• Develop and execute Chartis' enterprise affiliation strategy in partnership with the Chief Strategy Officer, Office of the CEO, business unit leadership, and product and technology leadership.

• Define the role partnerships should play in Chartis' growth model, solution portfolio, product roadmap, AI-enabled delivery model, market positioning, and enterprise value creation.

• Prioritize partnership domains based on Chartis’ strategic agenda, client demand, outcome economics, implementation feasibility, business unit pull-through, and Chartis' right to win.

• Create a multi-year roadmap for partnership development, activation, governance, and value capture across the firm.

• Serve as the enterprise point of integration for partnership strategy across Chartis business units, centers, practices, segments, and enabling functions.

PARTNER PORTFOLIO DESIGN AND VETTING

• Design and maintain a rigorous partner evaluation framework that distinguishes high-value strategic partners from referral relationships, opportunistic vendor relationships, and lower-priority ecosystem contacts.

• Evaluate partners based on prioritized criteria including but not limited to commercial fit, long-term financial viability, leadership quality, track record of success (clinical or operational evidence, customer reference quality, deployment track record); responsible AI governance, and data rights.

• Work with Chartis business unit l