Senior Healthcare Strategy Consultant

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina•Columbia, SC

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Position Purpose: As a Senior Consultant with Corporate Planning and Strategic Services (CPSS), you will lead complex initiatives that span multiple business areas from conception to execution. You will partner with senior leaders across the organization to drive success by helping them anticipate needs, overcome challenges, and advance opportunities. Location: This role is primarily onsite, located in Columbia, South Carolina, with an expectation of 3–4 days per week in the office with some remote flexibility based on business needs.

Requirements

Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Equivalency: Associates degree plus an extra 2 years job related work experience for a total of 10 years of required work experience (see "required work experience") OR 12 total years required work experience.
Required Work Experience: 8 Years organizational development, business analysis, process improvement (e.g. six sigma and reengineering), corporate/strategic planning, financial analysis, business systems analysis, business development and market/industry research, or management of business operation in any business setting including I/T, research/analysis activities, leading project teams and/or managing complex analysis projects.
Required Training: PAHM certification within 1 year of hire.

Nice To Haves

Proven ability to partner and engage with key business leaders, effectively influencing key business decisions.
Extensive experience working within the Healthcare or Health Insurance industries in the payor or provider segments.
5+ years of strategic planning, program management, or consulting experience working for an external or dedicated internal consulting team.
3+ year’s leadership experience within the healthcare industry, preferably with healthcare payers.
Master's Degree in a related field (MHA, MBA, Strategy, etc.)

Responsibilities

Partner with business units on initiatives to deliver value & results in two or more of the following business disciplines: Business Planning: Helps business units envision key goals & methods to attain those goals. Business Improvement and Innovation: Provide structured improvement & innovation methodologies to understand current state, to identify best opportunities & to execute action plans to achieve improvements. Business Change Implementation: Utilize structured project & change management frameworks to drive strategic & tactical change. Business Learning and Development: Develop tailored approaches to expand mindset & capabilities of individuals/teams.
Energize & strengthen our team by being a great collaborator and championing changes, ideas, & initiatives that create ongoing success.
Cultivate relationships with internal business stakeholders to proactively identify and champion opportunities that will bring business value.
Provide thought leadership, insights, and recommendations to key stakeholders, to influence decisions in line with business unit and enterprise strategy.
Expand and share your knowledge of the healthcare/insurance industry, the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina organization, & effective frameworks/approaches that are relevant, practical, & impactful
Manages tasks in projects, project team, and/or leading multiple projects.
Actively gathers appropriate level of participation and input to decision-making and fosters the same within the team.
Determines, sets, and executes best direction in addressing business issues or opportunity by facilitating communication between and among business units.
Negotiates and manages agreements and commitments based on requirements of business.
Identifies, research, evaluates, and quantifies all aspects of business solution or opportunity.
Consults with all levels of management (to include senior level executives) engaged in design, development, communication, and implementation of said business solutions or opportunities.
Consults and collaborates with all levels of management (to include senior level executives) in facilitating and leading analyst teams to provide analysis on industry, business trends, and key operations/functions to solve business problems and maximize opportunities.
Conducts in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of key cross-functional business processes within specific business unit to provide business managers with critical data to make key tactical decisions.
Provides leadership in conducting comprehensive analysis that synthesizes disparate information, both internal(cross-business) and external (industry and competitive).
Consults with customers to understand strategic direction of business, and designs and implements solutions to corporate/enterprise issues and opportunities.
Directs activities of other staff members on their team on topics such as project management, direction, and analysis.
May provide guidance/leadership to staff pertaining to training and department initiatives.
May assist department managers in day-to-day operations of department.