Director, Strategic Planning and Performance - Strategic at Blue Shield of California

Your Role 

The Director, Strategic, Planning and Performance will report to the VP, Medicare in supporting the direction, development and execution of the management process for our National Medicare line of business. The goal of this work is to ensure strategy, communications, regularly held multi-Health Plans forums and information sharing work together in a seamless management process. The Director will identify and implement new initiatives to drive consistency and efficiency in messaging, collation and dissemination of information to cross functional partners (state specific health plans). Sets cohesive business unit messages and identify further opportunities to align across multiple Health Plans, Finance, Operations, Compliance and other critical functions impacting Medicare. The ideal candidate will not only manage business processes, but also actively influence strategic intent. 

Responsible for creating and maintaining the short and long-term strategic plans in conjunction with the business leaders. Responsible for building and leading integration with local client health plans by leveraging internal and external resources. Responsible for the successful delivery of program management capability and defining success measurement criteria. Connect the dots between key initiatives and goals across state specific Health Plan clients to identify scale, financial and operational opportunities.

Your Work 

In this role, you will:

• Support, develop and deploy the Medicare Operating Model, manage governance such as Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews, leadership meetings, performance/ scorecard and takeaways that align to execution of strategy, prioritizing and driving alignment opportunities across the organization and state specific Health Plan clients. 
• Develop or assist in the development of presentations for various management forums including Operating Committee and any other leadership meetings.
•  Lead continuous assessment of governance model, including identifying gaps, recommending actions & improvements, implementing changes and monitoring progress to improve the organization’s overall performance and effectiveness. 
• Present feedback, opportunities, and obstacles in a unified way. Ensure the organization is focused on key improvements and monitor progress against objectives. Identify off-target initiatives & knowledge gaps. 
• Work with leaders to educate, mitigate, and request support for key initiatives and critical projects. Lead business unit-wide initiatives on wide range of topics, facilitating work groups across multiple businesses and matrix partners, organizing key events and other assignments as needed. 
• Support the development of executive audience materials leveraging subject matter experts and cross functional partners. Assist with the planning & production of executive communication materials.
• Includes both direct and indirect reporting relationships of program management capacity, but in all cases a dotted-line responsibility to coordinate and report across all programs and project management functions including project scope, timing, resource and budget performance. 
• Partner with Senior executives to establish and regularly report progress toward operating plan to ensure alignment with long term strategy.  Includes articulating the operating plan and tracking against regular milestones.
• Proactively contribute meaningful and actionable solutions to business opportunities.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Requires a minimum 10 years prior relevant experience with a minimum of 6 years of management experience
• Requires a Medicare Subject Matter Expert with a health plan perspective (business acumen)
• Requires 5+ years of program management experience leading successful large-scale transformation initiatives
• Requires executive presence and the ability to present business cases at all levels

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 172260.00 to $ 258280.00 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.