Job Description
Your Role
The Growth Strategy and Execution team is responsible for the orchestration of strategic planning across the eight lines of business that make up the Growth organization, as well as the execution of strategic and operational priorities for the Consumer lines of business. The Strategic Planning and Performance, Principal - Growth Strategy will report to the VP, Commercial Growth Strategy. In this role you will support the strategy function within the Growth Strategy team, including creating the high-level roadmap, driving the annual strategic planning process, and gaining senior executive alignment and support on priorities.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Be responsible for planning and implementation of complex programs spanning across business areas which encompass multiple projects, initiatives, and where analysis requires evaluation of intangible variance factors
- Ensure strategic direction of program is in line and design strategies for alignment with goals and objectives
- Be responsible for facilitating annual strategic planning process
- Work in conjunction with financial partner’s complete business planning and forecasting
- Manage budget planning as part of the annual budget cycle
- Define approach and messaging to drive alignment and value proposition to build stakeholder understanding on overall multi-line Line of Business growth
- Maintain 3-5 year growth strategy roadmap for prioritized strategic initiatives
- Prepare and present Strategy Committee reporting, gain Senior Executive alignment on prioritized strategic decisions, considerations/risks, and next steps
- Facilitate the development of the Line of Business playbooks
- Drive Growth Strategy & Narrative, Line of Business Strategies, and Cross line of business priorities by pillar
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience
- Requires ability to develop and drive strategy by organizing information coming from lines of Businesses
- Requires demonstrated experience working across organization to drive change in a matrixed environment, assessing marketplace opportunities for growth, and preparing and analyzing reports and dashboards and presenting to stakeholders or leadership
- Requires experience developing and maintaining growth strategy roadmaps
- Requires prior experience and understanding of the Healthcare industry with a focus on Payer and Provider
- Requires demonstrated excellence in crafting executive leadership level written communications via PowerPoint
Pay Range:
The pay range for this role is: $145,970.00 to $218,900.00 for California.
Note:
Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.
About The Team
Blue Shield of California’s mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.
To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion upholds our values and advances our goal of creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends while addressing health disparities, promoting social justice, and integrating health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.
Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work, Military Friendly Employer, People Companies that Care, a Leading Disability Employer, and one of California’s top companies in volunteering and giving. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities – join us!
Our Values:
- Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
- Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
- Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.
Our Workplace Model:
Blue Shield of California is dedicated to making work-life balance a reality. Whether you prefer to work in an office or from home, we understand flexibility is more important than ever. That’s why Blue Shield is a hybrid company, offering you the opportunity to decide where you can do your best and most meaningful work.
Two ways of working: Hybrid (our default) and office
- Hybrid – In a business unit approved office a few times per year to 3 days per week, on average
- Office – In a business unit approved office 4+ days a week, on average. If the role you’re applying for is deemed an “Essential Role,” the company has determined that the role can only be performed in a Blue Shield office or in the field and would require your to meet the office worker classification.
Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Due to the current public health emergency in California, Blue Shield employees are almost all working remotely. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
