Senior Director Clinical Quality and Policy at Delta Dental Ins, San Francisco, CA

Senior Director Clinical Quality and Policy at Delta Dental Ins in San Francisco, CA. $190,254 to $439,724 a year. Apply with swipeandhired.

The Senior Director of Clinical Quality & Policy provides enterprise clinical leadership for a transforming dental health plan, ensuring that clinical policy, quality strategy, and utilization management are grounded in evidence-based care, data-driven decision-making, and whole-person health outcomes.
This leader will be accountable for key clinical functions including Utilization Management, Clinical Review, and Clinical Quality, while also helping shape the organization's broader clinical positioning in the marketplace and supporting the development of integrated care models that connect oral health to whole person health. The Senior Director brings strong clinical credibility, policy expertise, business acumen, and strategic leadership to help influence enterprise priorities, provider engagement, quality outcomes, and market differentiation.
This leader moves confidently between strategy and execution while bringing the credibility to engage with providers and clinical leaders, the business acumen to influence enterprise decisions, and the vision to help position the organization more broadly in the marketplace as a trusted health plan focused on quality, whole person care, and improved outcomes
This role operates as a peer executive leader and consensus builder across clinical, operational, and enterprise stakeholders.

Develop and govern dental clinical protocols, standards of care, and evidence-based guidelines. Ensure clinical policies reflect best practices, emerging science, and oral-systemic health principles. Chair or co-chair clinical policy governance forums and guide consensus-based clinical decision-making. Translate clinical policy into clear clinical intent that informs utilization management and quality programs.

Operate as a consensus builder who brings stakeholders together around shared clinical and quality objectives.

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Base Pay Information

The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 27. $190,254.00 - $439,724.00