Enterprise Strategy Director

Florida Blue•Jacksonville, FL

1d•$180,000 - $292,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Strategy Director is the lead in-house strategy advisor to one of GuideWell’s business segments, partnering directly with its leadership to solve the enterprise’s most important and most complex problems. Operating like an internal engagement lead, the Director owns discrete, time-bound engagements from start to finish — framing the question, directing a small team of analysts, and turning analysis into clear, decision-ready recommendations for senior leaders and, where relevant, the Board. Working across business-unit peers, segment subject-matter experts, finance, and corporate development, the Director connects internal and external insight to sharpen GuideWell’s view of the market dynamics shaping strategy, growth, and operations. GuideWell is standing up its Enterprise Strategy team — an in-house strategy and internal-consulting group — and we are looking for a Director to help build it from the ground up. You will be the trusted strategy advisor to the leaders of a GuideWell business, own strategic engagements end to end (from framing the problem to delivering the recommendation), and present your thinking directly to senior leadership. Because the team is being purpose-built, you will have unusual influence over how it works: the engagement model, the playbooks and tools, and the analysts you develop along the way. You will thrive here if you love turning ambiguous, cross-functional problems into clear recommendations, are energized by working shoulder to shoulder with senior leaders, and want the intellectual challenge and variety of consulting without the constant travel — all in service of a mission you believe in.

Requirements

12-16 years of experience.
12+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, or a comparable role, including significant experience leading engagements and senior relationships.
Demonstrated experience owning the strategy agenda for a business or major function, and advising its leadership team.
Per the team’s leveling map, an experienced Engagement Manager, Project Leader, or Manager from a top-tier firm slots in at this level.
5+ years leading teams and developing talent, including indirect leadership in a matrixed environment.
Bachelor’s degree
Quantitative, analytical, business, or health-related field preferred (e.g., economics, finance, statistics, data or analytics, engineering, or public health); other majors welcome where the analytical toolkit is demonstrated.
Demonstrated experience owning the strategy agenda for a business or major function, including framing the questions before the analysis begins.
A track record as a trusted advisor to a leadership team, with real influence over major bets and investment choices.
The ability to run engagements end to end while also carrying a standing coverage relationship.
The ability to translate an enterprise strategy into a unit-level roadmap, and to keep it current as markets, competitors, and regulation move.
Experience preparing and delivering decision-ready material for executive leadership and, where relevant, a Board.
The ability to build bench strength — developing talent and sponsoring careers, directly and indirectly.
Command of a market: its competitors, its regulation, and the economics that drive it.
Executive presence, and the ability to frame strategy in the language of the leaders who have to act on it.
The ability to act as a single point of accountability and drive alignment in a matrixed environment

Nice To Haves

MBA or other relevant advanced degree
MBA, or a master’s degree in a quantitative, analytical, business, or health-related field (e.g., economics, finance, statistics, data science, engineering, or public health).
Experience at engagement-manager level or above at a top-tier strategy consultancy, or experience leading an in-house strategy function.
Deep health care experience; payer experience strongly preferred.
Experience with scenario planning and with an enterprise strategy-refresh cycle.
Experience with corporate development, M&A, or partnership strategy.
Experience building a team’s shared methods, tools, and intellectual property.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy agenda for an assigned P&L or group of support-services functions, serving as the embedded strategy advisor to that unit’s leadership team.
Frame the strategic questions that matter most before the analysis begins, and shape the major bets and investment choices that follow.
Translate GuideWell’s enterprise strategy into a clear roadmap for the segment, and keep it current as markets, competitors, and regulation evolve.
Act as the single point of accountability for the segment’s strategy work, driving alignment across business partners in a matrixed environment.
Run discrete, time-bound engagements from start to finish — scoping the problem, structuring the analysis, and setting the workplan.
Direct a team of analysts drawn from the shared team pool, owning quality, pace, and the balance between rigor and speed.
Turn analysis into decision-ready recommendations and a practical roadmap, and secure the buy-in of the leaders who must act on it.
Present findings directly to business-unit and enterprise leaders, tailoring the message to the audience.
Provide the data, market intelligence, frameworks, and facilitation that help executives define, align on, and refresh enterprise, business-unit, and functional strategy.
Develop scenarios and test current and proposed strategies against them, anticipating how traditional and non-traditional competitors alike could reshape the market.
Prepare clear, decision-ready materials for executive leadership and, where relevant, the Board, supporting the enterprise strategy-refresh cycle.
Coach and develop the analysts staffed to your engagements — setting direction, reviewing their work, and giving direct, timely feedback as part of the Enterprise Strategy team.
Strengthen the team’s shared methods, tools, and intellectual property, raising the bar for how engagements are run.
Help the team scale by contributing to recruiting and onboarding and by developing the analysts you lead, both directly and indirectly.
Build durable, trusted relationships with peers across business units, finance, and corporate development, and respond to inbound requests for strategic analysis.
Introduce new ideas and frameworks that embed long-term, outside-in thinking into everyday business decisions.
Partner with subject-matter experts to assess what federal and state health care legislation, policy, and regulation mean for GuideWell’s strategy.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs
Leave programs to support personal circumstances
Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days
Additional voluntary benefits available
A comprehensive wellness program
Competitive pay
Opportunities for incentive or commission compensation
Regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases