Service Delivery Manager Jobs

As a Service Delivery Manager, you play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth delivery of IT services to clients. Your responsibilities include overseeing service quality, managing client relationships, and continuous improvement of service delivery processes. In a rapidly evolving IT landscape, the role of a Service Delivery Manager is in high demand. With a focus on ITIL practices, you navigate through incidents, problems, and changes to ensure optimal service delivery. The average salary ranges from $80,000 to $120,000 per year, depending on experience and industry. To excel in this role, important skills include strong communication, leadership, and technical knowledge in IT service management tools.

About this role

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

Datavant is a data platform company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs.

The Manager, Service Delivery leads operational execution across one or more assigned sites, ensuring the delivery of timely, high-quality, and compliant ROI services. This leader oversees Supervisors and frontline teams, manages staffing and scheduling, drives operational performance, and ensures adherence to standardized workflows. The Manager serves as the operational heartbeat at the local level—owning throughput, quality, and people management while partnering closely with Workforce Planning, Network Operations Center (NOC), and regional leadership.

You will:

Own overall service delivery performance across assigned portfolio, including SLA’s, quality, Global, cost and throughput

Lead Supervisors and frontline teams to deliver high-quality, compliant ROI services

Collaborate with Workforce Management (WFM) and own daily and weekly staffing plans, schedules, and productivity management

Analyze KPIs (TAT, OTD, quality, productivity) to identify gaps and develop action plans

Ensure compliance with HIPAA, DMPO, UAD, and all standardized operational procedures

Partner with Supervisors to coach staff, address performance issues, and support employee growth

Serve as the first point of operational escalation for site-level execution issues (not customer issues)

Coordinate with the Network Operations Center (NOC) to address aging, exceptions, or workflow disruptions

Support training for new hires and ensure readiness to transition to centralized training (Phase 2)

Maintain an accurate skills matrix and assist with work assignment optimization

Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and transformation pilots

Work with VPO to address concerns with Account Management team for client communication

Success Metrics

Achievement of SLA’s, quality and cost targets

Improved operational efficiency and scalability

Reduction of rework and waste

Strong performance and engagement/retention of team

Successful adoption of new technology

What you will bring to the table:

Experience managing teams in healthcare operations, HIM, or a large-scale production environment

Demonstrated ability to coach and develop people leaders

Comfort using metrics and dashboards to guide operational decision-making
Strong understanding of HIPAA and regulated workflows

Problem-solving skills and the ability to respond quickly to operational fluctuations

Identify process improvement needs and appropriate solutions

Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with NOC, Workforce Planning, Training, and Shared Services

Bonus points if:

You have experience with ROI workflows or EMR systems

You have led multi-site teams

You have experience with Lean or continuous improvement methodologies

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:

$72,000—$84,000 USD

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.

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About Datavant

Join Datavant's network of networks, including 350+ real-world data partners, more than 80,000 hospitals and clinics, and 75% of the top 100 largest health systems.

Team

Donald Yeung

Daniele Pagano

Ken Sandy

Richard Belcinski