Health Plan Partnerships Manager

Color is revolutionizing cancer care with the nation’s first Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, physician-led multidisciplinary care across all 50 states. Our innovative, guideline-based approach spans cancer screening, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. In addition to personalized direct medical care, our services include cancer genetics risk assessment, nutrition, mental health support and at-home cancer screening diagnostics. Using technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is transforming how employers, unions, health plans, and governments address cancer. Color’s goal is to close critical cancer care gaps, improve cancer outcomes, and guide patients with empathy through their healthcare journeys.

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About the Health Plan Partnerships Team:

The Health Plan Partnerships team owns Color's relationships with its health plan, TPA, and PBM partners – the channel through which a significant and fast-growing portion of Color's business flows. The team is responsible for everything from early contracting and go-to-market strategy to Account Executive activation, RVP enablement, and ongoing partner operations.

This is a high-growth, high-visibility team. As Color brings more health plan, PBM, & TPA partners live and expands the book of business running through those partnerships, the operational and commercial demands on the team are scaling quickly. We're building the infrastructure, processes, and people to match that growth – and this role is a key part of that build.

About the Role:
Color is looking for a Health Plan Partnerships Manager to drive commercial growth alongside Color’s partnerships and sales teams. This quota-carrying role has a direct impact on how Color scales revenue through its health plan, PBM, and TPA partnerships.

You’ll work closely with Health Plan Partnership Directors to build and advance pipeline alongside Color’s sales team and partner account executives, associate account executives, and clinical account managers. You’ll also help coordinate partner initiatives and sales enablement to support growth. This role offers high visibility with leadership and a clear connection between your work and commercial outcomes.
How You'll Contribute:

• Own partner AE engagement strategies (partner events, trainings, 1:1 relationships) to drive growth via the ASO (self-insured) segment

• Build network of sales champions across book of partners

• Accountable for inbound pipeline attainment in collaboration with partner account executives at health plans, PBMs, and TPAs

• Partner with plan AEs to ensure Color is recommended in client annual business reviews

• Coordinate deal progression and next steps with Color RVPs

• Ensure all open opportunities are properly tracked and maintained in Salesforce (SFDC)

• Own development of AE and consultant training curriculum and enablement assets (playbooks, client ABR materials, objection handling guides, FAQs) for partner sales teams; lead delivery of trainings and onboarding sessions

• Assist with partner events and conferences to deepen relationships and drive downstream pipeline

• Own pre-event outreach strategy and post-event pipeline follow-up for events/conferences

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Experience in digital health sales enablement or business development within employer benefits or health plans

• Familiarity with the payer landscape and how digital health solutions partner with health plans, PBMs, and TPAs

• Experience in a quota-carrying or pipeline-owning sales, partnerships, or business development role, ideally in a channel or partner-sell-through model

• Track record of building and running relationships with sales reps or account executives at a partner organization to drive pipeline (not just internal stakeholder management)

• Comfortable owning a number: pipeline generation, attainment against a target, or channel revenue growth

• Experience designing or delivering sales enablement content (training, playbooks, objection handling) and running live trainings with an external sales team

• Hands-on Salesforce (SFDC) experience – you keep pipeline clean and use data to prioritize

• Scrappy and creative with a strong bias toward action – you don't wait for perfect conditions to move forward

• Strong communicator who can work effectively with external partners and internal stakeholders alike

• Willingness to travel to partner events approximately 1x/month

What We Offer:

• 💰 Competitive salary

• ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits

• 📈 401k match

• 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees, annual ergonomic stipend

• 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days

• 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

• Free cancer screening and prevention resources for employees and their adult dependents

Compensation: Annual base salary of $100,000–115,000, plus variable incentive compensation, with total on-target earnings (OTE) of 135,000–150,000.

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: work experience, market data, skills, geographic location, and business need. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Color prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Color conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities in our recruitment process.