Tennessee Market Initiatives Manager

Location: Middle Tennessee Market; Atria Health position supporting Tennessee Heart and other Atria partner practices across the market. About Atria Health and the Tennessee Market Atria Health partners with independent physician practices to strengthen operations, expand access to high-quality care, and support sustainable growth. In the Tennessee market, Atria works alongside Tennessee Heart to advance strategic initiatives, improve performance, and develop clinical and administrative services that meet the needs of patients and communities. The Tennessee market portfolio includes diagnostic services such as cardiac PET/CT and echocardiography, as well as broader growth, operational improvement, service-line development, and revenue optimization initiatives across Atria partner practices. Job Summary The Tennessee Market Initiatives Manager is an exempt salaried Atria Health position responsible for coordinating and advancing strategic initiatives across the Tennessee market. The manager will oversee market priorities beyond diagnostic operations, including growth initiatives, new and expanded service lines, operational performance, and revenue optimization for Atria partner practices. This role works closely with Atria leadership, physician leaders, practice teams, and functional partners to translate market strategy into executable plans, establish accountability, remove barriers, and deliver measurable financial, operational, and patient-access results. The position retains appropriate oversight of Tennessee Heart diagnostic initiatives while serving as a broader market resource for growth and performance improvement. Required Skills/Abilities · Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of priority initiatives across the Atria Tennessee market. · Partner with Atria leadership, physicians and practice leaders to identify growth opportunities, establish priorities, and convert strategic objectives into actionable workplans. · Support development, launch, and optimization of new and expanded clinical services, locations, programs, and market partnerships. · Drive revenue optimization initiatives for partner practices, including improvements in patient access, scheduling, capacity utilization, referral capture, documentation, charge capture, and related revenue-cycle workflows. · Analyze operational and financial performance indicators, identify gaps and opportunities, and coordinate corrective or improvement plans with accountable leaders. · Develop initiative charters, milestones, ownership assignments, budgets, performance measures, and executive-ready status reporting for market priorities. · Coordinate cross-functional resources across operations, finance, revenue cycle, marketing, human resources, information technology, compliance, clinical services, facilities, and vendor partners. · Identify implementation risks, dependencies, and barriers; escalate decisions promptly and follow through to resolution. · Support partner-practice leaders with workflow redesign, staffing and capacity planning, service standardization, and performance improvement. · Maintain oversight of Tennessee Heart diagnostic initiatives, including PET/CT and echocardiography operations, staffing coordination, inventory and vendor readiness, regulatory compliance, quality, safety, and patient experience. · Build strong working relationships across Atria and its partner practices and promote clear communication, shared accountability, and consistent execution. · Prepare business cases, forecasts, implementation recommendations, and performance updates to support leadership decisions. · Perform other market development, operational, and strategic duties as assigned. Education and Experience · Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, business, finance, nursing, allied health, or a related field required; equivalent relevant experience may be considered based on organizational policy. · At least three years of healthcare operations, project management, practice management, growth, or performance-improvement experience preferred. · Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives, managing multiple priorities, and delivering measurable operational or financial results. · Working knowledge of physician-practice operations, patient access, service-line development, budgeting, and revenue-cycle or revenue-optimization concepts strongly preferred. · Cardiology, diagnostic imaging, or multisite healthcare experience is highly preferred. Compensation Atria Health will provide compensation commensurate with experience and a competitive benefits package in accordance with current organizational offerings. Physical Requirements · Prolonged periods of sitting and working at a computer, with regular movement through clinical and administrative areas. · Must be able to lift at least 25 pounds at times. · Must be able to stand, walk, reach, bend, twist, and turn while supporting practice and market operations. · Regular travel among Tennessee market partner-practice locations and occasional travel for Atria meetings may be required. · Must be proficient and comfortable using Microsoft tools to monitor and track practice-management, scheduling, financial, reporting, project-management, compliance and other initiatives.