David Schave Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Lead a team of 75+ staff, both direct and matrix, responsible for development and technical maintenance of Elevance’s proprietary Payment Innovation Management System (PIMS), Cost of Care Analytics (CoCA), and Provider.
• Spearhead the development and execution of innovative product strategies by working with both stakeholders across the enterprise and external providers and vendor groups
• Responsible for overall success of product implementation, short and long-term product strategy and cross-product functionality
• Oversee annual requirements gathering and LOE-estimation process to ensure accurate funding requests and significant cost-of-care savings
• Serve as a thought-leader and SME in the design of commercial payment models, member identification and assignment and Agile development best-practices.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the product development team, fostering professional growth and development opportunities, resulting in improved team cohesion and productivity.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead multiple Products in the Anthem’s Population Health Platforms space used for Value-based contracting across all Anthem markets
• Facilitate effective communication with senior leadership, business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure full understanding of product pipelines, potential risks and prioritization needs to ensure fast and efficient.
• Enable open and constructive dialog between partner technical teams, business stakeholders and operations teams to ensure products are delivered meet all business requirements, are defect free and meet the needs of our.
• Responsible for overall success of product implementation, short and long-term product strategy and cross-product functionality
• Design and monitor processes that ensure continued development our industry-leading agile teams while overseeing pipeline of development, and supporting more than half-a-dozen Agile teams

Oversee both Operations and Development of Anthem’s Population Health Platforms administering Value Based Programs for more than 14 million members across thousands of provider contracts. These programs produce over a billion in provider payments and result in billions in health care savings and are critical infrastructure for Anthem’s core Value Based.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead team of Consultants and Product Owners working to facilitate development of Anthem’s Payment Innovation Management System (PIMS); a value-based program administration tool enabling more than $1b in annual savings
• Oversee monthly and daily reporting, and analytics, on a wide variety of value-based program parameters, including quarterly financial reconciliation and annual shared savings calculations, contract setup and renewal.
• Drive development strategy and user-acceptance-testing for five Agile development teams spanning multiple subject matters including commercial and government-business payment models, financial transactions, attribution.
• Facilitate strategic road-mapping for future development while balancing innovation and improving operational efficiency

• Lead NAMSA’s Commercial Operations & Analytics efforts as a leader and member of a team of Analysts and CRM Administrators – develop analytic solutions for leadership, model possible outcomes, set priorities for CRM.
• Oversee and work alongside staff to ensure accurate reporting, commissions payments, financial forecasting and innovative, industry-leading S&OP processes
• Implement Agile processes and work coordination activities among remote staff
• Lead monthly S&OP process, ensure effective coordination between departments, and report results to Executive Leadership Team

Greater Omaha Area

* Develop and maintain leading business intelligence, analytics and data science programs to meet the increasingly complex needs of groups, brokers, providers and members in a constantly evolving Health Data environment* Oversee department of 20+ Analysts, Data Scientists and Engineers to ensure production of top-tier descriptive, predictive and.

Greater Omaha Area

• Lead, develop, and implement process changes in alignment with company goals and strategic objectives.
• Coordinate forecasting process, facilitate discussions with stakeholders, analyze forecasting data, produce financial and staffing predictive models and report results to management.
• Review and analyze detailed labor, labor productivity, and other operational performance data, identifying areas of needed improvement and prioritizing those areas for assistance.
• Develop various models for both business productivity, finance and health data uses
• Work with COO to initiate Performance Improvement, Productivity Analysis, Process Evaluations, and Predictive Modeling initiatives. Coordinate with Division and Program leadership on implementation.
• Support Division and Program Management staff in identifying innovation opportunities and mitigating barriers to progress.

Greater Omaha Area

• Performed analytics on various health data projects and deliverables produced by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Contractors
• Oversaw company operational performance while identifying patterns and trends.
• Conducted research on identified issues and, as needed, made recommendations for changes to processes, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and systems.
• Submitted recommendations to CMS for updates and improvements.
• Responsible for the completeness and accuracy of technical/operational analysis, information and guidance to CMS.

• Event Portfolio
• The Great American Trucking Show
• The Great West Truck Show
• The Charlotte Diesel Supershow
• Five Pride and Polish events: GATS, GWTS, The Charlotte Diesel Supershow, i75 Chrome Shop show, Truckin’ for Kids.
• Various company symposia, in-house and client eventsOperations Management

• Led development/direction of magazines’ online component, and established priorities for Web development and programming teams
• Served as liaison between in-house IT teams and client/partner IT departments. Various production and IT duties
• Oversaw production and B2B sales staff to ensure bi-weekly production deadlines were met, and delegated advertising production responsibilities to support sales team

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Area

• Collaborated with Senior Management to formulate original business model and marketing plan for launch of company’s first retail publication, NextTruck magazine
• Managed top-tier client accounts
• Managed B2B business accounts
• More information available upon request

Bachelor Of Science

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Assignments Editor at The Gator Times Newspaper, Universal Studios/University of Florida Shrek.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration, Management And Operations