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Strategic Planning and Performance, Principal - Office of Growth

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

  • El Dorado Hills, CA
  • 3 days ago

    Highlights

    Requires demonstrated executive-level communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise, and impactful executive-ready PowerPoint presentations; proficiency in Excel for data management, analysis, reporting, and decision support. In this role, you will serve as a central driver of growth strategy execution by establishing structured governance, leading strategic planning processes, and ensuring transparency of priorities, risks, and outcomes across senior leadership forums.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationEl Dorado Hills, CA
    IndustryInsurance
    Company Size2,000 to 2,499 employees
    Websitehttps://www.bcbs.com/about-us/careers

    Description

    Your Role

    The Office of Growth team leads enterprise-wide coordination and execution of the organization's growth strategy across markets and lines of business. The Strategic Planning and Performance Principal will report to the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Performance under the Office of Growth and play a critical role in operationalizing growth priorities, ensuring alignment across business units, and enabling executive governance. In this role, you will serve as a central driver of growth strategy execution by establishing structured governance, leading strategic planning processes, and ensuring transparency of priorities, risks, and outcomes across senior leadership forums.

    Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

    Your Knowledge and Experience

    • Requires a bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
    • Requires 10 years of prior relevant experience
    • Requires experience supporting executive-level governance forums (e.g., MQBRs, senior leadership reviews)
    • Requires strong strategic planning, portfolio management, and prioritization expertise
    • Requires experience working in payer/provider or healthcare growth strategy environments
    • Requires demonstrated executive-level communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise, and impactful executive-ready PowerPoint presentations; proficiency in Excel for data management, analysis, reporting, and decision support
    • Ability to influence across senior leadership and drive enterprise-level alignment is desired

    Your Work

    In this role, you will:

    • Governance & Operational Enablement of Growth Strategy

    • Lead governance and operational enablement of the enterprise growth strategy across markets and lines of business

    • Support planning, coordination, and facilitation of executive governance forums including CEO Monthly Business Review (MBR)

    • Establish standardized processes, reporting, and performance tracking to ensure visibility into operational, outcomes, and risks

    • Drive alignment across cross-functional teams to ensure execution against operational priorities and commitments

    • Partner with executive stakeholders to synthesize insights, escalate risks, and enable data-driven decision making

    • Ensure continuity and follow-through of action items, commitments, and performance outcomes across governance cycles

    • Supports the development of materials for enterprise leadership forums and Board level discussions related to growth performance and strategy

    • Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management

    • Support end-to-end strategic planning processes including intake, prioritization, backlog management, and roadmap development

    • Develop and manage enterprise and line-of-business growth roadmaps, including 3-year strategic plans and annual operating plans

    • Facilitate prioritization frameworks that balance enterprise objectives, market needs, and resource constraints

    • Partner with business, finance leaders and Stellarus to develop business cases, quantify impact, and support investment decisions

    • Implement structured planning disciplines to drive accountability, transparency, and execution rigor across initiatives

    • Markets Priorities and Initiatives

    • Drive Markets strategic priorities and initiatives as assigned

    • Partner with Markets leaders and cross-functional teams to define initiative scope, objectives, milestones, and success measures

    • Coordinate execution across stakeholders, clarify accountabilities, and drive timely completion of deliverables and decisions

    • Monitor progress, dependencies, and risks; escalate issues and provide clear updates and recommendations to Markets leadership

    Your Work

    In this role, you will:

    • Governance & Operational Enablement of Growth Strategy

    • Lead governance and operational enablement of the enterprise growth strategy across markets and lines of business

    • Support planning, coordination, and facilitation of executive governance forums including CEO Monthly Business Review (MBR)

    • Establish standardized processes, reporting, and performance tracking to ensure visibility into operational, outcomes, and risks

    • Drive alignment across cross-functional teams to ensure execution against operational priorities and commitments

    • Partner with executive stakeholders to synthesize insights, escalate risks, and enable data-driven decision making

    • Ensure continuity and follow-through of action items, commitments, and performance outcomes across governance cycles

    • Supports the development of materials for enterprise leadership forums and Board level discussions related to growth performance and strategy

    • Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management

    • Support end-to-end strategic planning processes including intake, prioritization, backlog management, and roadmap development

    • Develop and manage enterprise and line-of-business growth roadmaps, including 3-year strategic plans and annual operating plans

    • Facilitate prioritization frameworks that balance enterprise objectives, market needs, and resource constraints

    • Partner with business, finance leaders and Stellarus to develop business cases, quantify impact, and support investment decisions

    • Implement structured planning disciplines to drive accountability, transparency, and execution rigor across initiatives

    • Markets Priorities and Initiatives

    • Drive Markets strategic priorities and initiatives as assigned

    • Partner with Markets leaders and cross-functional teams to define initiative scope, objectives, milestones, and success measures

    • Coordinate execution across stakeholders, clarify accountabilities, and drive timely completion of deliverables and decisions

    • Monitor progress, dependencies, and risks; escalate issues and provide clear updates and recommendations to Markets leadership

    About Company

    At the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), we provide business strategy, technical support and consulting expertise to 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies across the nation, employing more than 1,000 of the best strategic thinkers in the industry. We are a Brand manager that sets quality control standards for the 36 independent companies that use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Brands, and we serve as a trade association that represents these Blue companies. It is through our involvement that the Blues companies share a united vision and strategy while also benefiting from the local strength of all member companies.

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