Market Growth Partner

The Market Growth Partner serves as the strategic growth and business development partner to Clinical Directors and regional leadership teams.

This role is responsible for enabling sustainable referral growth by providing market intelligence, referral source analytics, relationship planning support, CRM management, and community engagement coordination.

The Market Growth Partner does not own primary referral relationships. Instead, they equip Clinical Directors to successfully manage and grow referral partnerships while ensuring consistency of Acorn's business development strategy across markets.

The role functions as the connection point between Growth, Clinical Operations, and Regional Leadership.

• Approximately 5 Clinical Directors
• Approximately 5 Centers
• Approximately 10-12 Referral Relationships in total
• Continues to provide Direct Therapy sessions as an RBT approximately 50% of the time

Referral Source Management

• →Maintain referral source database, relationship status, referral volume trends, contact information and referral source segmentation
• →Complete a quarterly review of active referral partners, dormant referral partners, and growth opportunities.
• →Serve as market-level CRM champion to ensure accurate referral attribution and pipeline management.
• →Track competitive ABA providers, new referral opportunities, physician group developments, school partnerships and community organizations. Provide relevant monthly reporting to Clinical Operations.

Community Engagement Coordination

• →Coordinate lunch and learns, provider education events, conferences, community presentations, referral appreciation events and local sponsorship opportunities.
• →Ensure consistent community visibility across each market.
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree; preferred fields include Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Marketing and Public Health. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered
• Ability to support leaders, enable clinicians, drive adoption and manage organizational change.
• Ability to influence without authority, build partnerships, foster accountability, and facilitate difficult conversations.
• Baseline understanding of healthcare referral development, provider outreach, community engagement, and client access strategies.
• Ability to interpret referral trends, analyze conversion data, and translate data into actions.
• Experience with cross-functional project planning and management to see deliverables through to implementation.
• Ability to travel regularly within assigned market.