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Principal Strategic Advisor, Health Plan Strategy

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
  • 8+ years of experience in related field
  • Strong executive communication, facilitation, influence, and stakeholder skills
  • Healthcare payer experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic governance and performance management processes
  • Facilitate strategic performance planning, business reviews, and governance forums
  • Develop and maintain performance frameworks, scorecards, KPIs, and reporting
  • Identify performance risks, barriers, and opportunities

About the company

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Blue Cross NC

Health Insurance (Payers)

It's an exciting time to work at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC). Health care is changing, and we're leading the way. We offer more than health insurance our customers can count on. We’re committed to better health and better health care − in our communities and beyond. Our employees bring energy and creativity to the workplace, and it shows in our innovative approach to improving the health and well-being of North Carolinians. Blue Cross NC is a fully taxed, not-for-profit company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. We employ more than 5,000 people who are passionate about health care, and we serve more than 4.3 million members. Help us lead the charge for better health care by joining our award-winning team. Discover tremendous opportunities with us to do challenging and rewarding work. Opportunities that can lead you to a fulfilling career, work that can help others lead healthier, happier lives. Blue Cross NC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryHealth Insurance (Payers)
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

Job Description

Leads Health Plan strategic governance, performance management, and execution efforts to ensure organizational priorities translate into measurable business outcomes. Partners with leadership to establish governance frameworks, drive strategic performance planning, monitor health plan performance, and facilitate cross-functional alignment across Health Plan, divisional, and enterprise priorities. Manage relevant processes that support a focus on insight-driven decision-making, accountability, and sustainable business performance.

What You'll Do

  • Lead strategic governance and performance management processes that align Health Plan, divisional, and enterprise priorities.

  • Facilitate strategic performance planning, business reviews, and governance forums to support executive decision-making, issue resolution, and accountability.

  • Develop and maintain performance frameworks, scorecards, KPIs, and reporting that measure progress against strategic, operational, financial, and consumer experience objectives.

  • Partner with business leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.

  • Identify performance risks, barriers, and opportunities; facilitate cross-functional action planning to improve results.

  • Lead highly complex quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate business performance, operational effectiveness, and strategic initiatives.

  • Synthesize insights and develop executive-level communications, presentations, and recommendations for senior leadership, executive committees, and board-level forums.

  • Establish and continuously improve governance processes, operating models, decision-rights frameworks, and role clarity mechanisms that enhance organizational effectiveness.

  • Coordinate across business, finance, strategy, operations, and functional teams to ensure alignment, transparency, and execution of strategic priorities.

  • Provide thought leadership regarding enterprise performance management, governance best practices, organizational effectiveness, and strategy execution.

  • Organize, monitor, and communicate progress across prioritized portfolios, initiatives, and strategic commitments.

  • Mentor and coach team members on strategic planning, executive communication, performance management, governance disciplines, and business analysis methodologies.

What You Have

  • Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)

  • 8+ years of experience in related field.

  • In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field.


Bonus Points

  • Progressive experience in strategic planning, performance management, business operations, enterprise governance, consulting, healthcare strategy, or related disciplines.

  • Demonstrated experience supporting executive leadership teams, governance forums, strategic planning processes, and enterprise performance management.

  • Strong executive communication, facilitation, influence, and stakeholder skills.

  • Experience developing scorecards, KPIs, business performance reviews, executive reporting, and strategic execution frameworks.

  • Healthcare payer experience preferred

What You’ll Get 

  • The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community

  • Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs 

  • Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance 

  • Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education 

  • 401k match including an annual company contribution 

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Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets,  licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs. 

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.
 

$130,560.00 - $208,896.00

Skills

Business Strategy Development, Corporate Strategy Planning, Ideas Development, Innovation, Job Search, Leadership, People Management, Strategic Planning, Strategy Development, Strategy Plan

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