You are a visionary leader who effortlessly integrates clinical insight with data strategy, propels innovation while upholding operational excellence, and builds robust relationships with physicians, hospital systems, industry partners, payers, and regulatory agencies. Your passion for transforming patient outcomes and advancing clinical research drives you. As the Managing Director. Clinical Registries, you will spearhead a cross-functional team and collaborate across departments to ensure the successful growth and national impact of our registry portfolio.

If this sounds like you, please read on!

The Managing Director, Clinical Registries acts as the strategic and operational leader for the Academy's clinical data registries portfolio. This role is pivotal in enhancing registries to boost patient outcomes, support clinical research, and drive quality improvement. The Director ensures the registries remain clinically relevant, financially sustainable, technologically robust, and aligned with the Academy's mission and member priorities.

• Serves as the strategic and operational leader for the Academy's family of clinical data registries, ensuring alignment with the organization's mission, strategic plan, and member priorities.
• Develops and oversees multi-year registry strategy, including expansion into new clinical domains, technology upgrades, partnerships, and monetization models.
• Identifies emerging trends in data science, quality improvement, and value-based care to guide the future direction of the registries.
• Acts as the primary liaison to physician leadership, hospital participants, government agencies, and other stakeholders to ensure registries are clinically relevant and widely adopted.
• Establishes and manages to key performance indicators to ensure outcomes across registry teams.
• Optimizes engagement and supports processes to reduce complexity of onboarding and increase participant satisfaction and registry participation.
• Facilitates and supports registry-related physician committees to enable teams to meet commitments and expectations; scale processes to ensure standard and consistent reporting to executive committee audiences and to optimize committee expertise. 
• Engages with volunteer and partner groups to provide updates on the registry program and to collect ongoing input related to product direction and registry performance. 
• Oversees the full life cycle of registry development and management—including design, launch, participation growth, and continuous improvement.
• Monitors and manages the performance of registry platforms and vendors, including data submission pipelines, reporting capabilities, and support services.
• Leads efforts to ensure data completeness, accuracy, standardization, and integrity across all registry programs.
• Promotes the development and dissemination of quality benchmarks, national reports, dashboards, and research datasets.
• Develops and manages the registry program’s annual operating budget, including revenue forecasting, expense management, and financial performance tracking.
• Ensures cost-effective and sustainable operations.
• Collaborates with internal departments (IT, finance, marketing, membership, quality) to support registry execution and impact.

Exemplifies the following essential values of the Academy:

• Teamwork: Effective collaboration and team-focus to solve complex problems and drive innovation.
• Empowerment: The authority, information, and skills to make decisions and drive results.
• Accountability: Ownership of process and results that drive decisions and ensure implementation.
• Mindset of Growth/Continuous Learning: Focused on and invested in self and staff development to become more adaptable, making the Academy more agile, innovative, and sustainable.

Travel:

• Up to 20 days per year

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Master’s degree in business, public health, healthcare administration, clinical informatics, health information management, biomedical sciences, or a related field. 
• Minimum 8–10 years of progressively responsible experience in clinical data registries, quality measurement, or health outcomes programs.
• Deep understanding of clinical registries, quality metrics, outcomes measurement, risk adjustment, and benchmarking methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and managing large-scale healthcare or data-related projects, ideally within a medical society or association environment.
• Familiarity with regulatory and accreditation standards related to clinical registries, including CMS, QCDR, MIPS, NCQA, etc.
• Experience collaborating with external stakeholders such as hospitals, clinicians, vendors, and government agencies.
• Working knowledge of data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, CPT) and data privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
• Strong strategic thinking and business acumen; ability to align registry initiatives with broader organizational goals and member needs.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex data concepts to physicians, executives, and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, including data analysts, project managers, and subject matter experts.
• Experience managing physician committees or advisory groups to inform registry design, use, and evolution.
• Proven ability to manage vendor relationships, including selection, contracting, and ongoing performance evaluation.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, purposeful environment.
• Comfort presenting to executives and external stakeholder partner groups.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to challenge the status quo.
• Outstanding leadership skills, managing teams and driving their performance.

Desired: 

• Association experience 

Salary Range: $159,000-$173,000, depending on qualifications and experience.

Join us and be a key player in advancing musculoskeletal health and driving the conversation in medical science and shaping AAOS’ success!

 If this resonates with you, apply today by sharing the following:

-Clearly communicate why you are the ideal candidate for this role, providing specific examples and experiences as proof points.

-Resumes must be accompanied by a cover letter with salary expectations to be considered. 

Please note: 

This hybrid position is based in either Washington, D.C. or Rosemont, Illinois and is open to applicants who are able to commute bi-weekly to one of these offices.

Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of work visas.

JOB CODE: 1000130