Senior Strategy Partner

Highmark Health • Washington, DC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This job supports the executive leadership of the Organization with a range of strategy activities essential to ensuring the Organization's goals. Provide analytical/strategic thinking and leadership support that enables project teams to isolate business issues, design and execute analytics for studying business issues (market research, scenario planning, forecasting, market share, profitability, etc.), develop technical content (competitive intelligence, market trend analysis), support development of formal recommendations to senior levels of organizational leadership, create documents (go-to-market or operational strategies, etc.) that inform critical strategic issues and decisions, support the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy, and/or support the execution of enterprise strategic initiatives through a disciplined process and approach. This role also requires demonstrated experience leveraging member engagement and interaction history data sourced from hybrid channels (voice, text, digital, print, etc.), coupled with robust data management and data product expertise, to drive personalization, improve administrative efficiency, and facilitate seamless omnichannel experiences across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, or related field, or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor's degree.
• 7 years of experience in strategic planning or related work experience
• 2 years of consulting experience (external or internal) or equivalent combination of experience and advanced degree
• Understanding of the health care industry trends and challenges
• Demonstrated relationship, influencing, collaboration, and teamwork skills.
• Needs to be able to lead cross-functional, cross-business unit teams in complex projects and handle internal politics of change
• Strong project leadership/management skills
• Strong emotional intelligence, with servant leadership mindset
• Focus on impacts to the customer of decisions rendered
• Proactive in driving change and continuous improvement
• Team management skills
• Deep analytical skills, with the ability to structure and perform complex analytics

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree in Business, or related field
• Extensive knowledge of health insurance and/or provider operations
• Experience in operational improvement, change management, capability roadmaps, and/or program management
• Thorough knowledge of membership, rates, financial, economic, and competitive data
• Significant experience working across teams and managing relationships in a matrixed environment
• Experience working with health plans, physicians, and other providers
• Support the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy

Responsibilities

• Work with business/market owners to identify key business issues, apply right analytical framework, develop solution and recommendations, represent findings to stakeholders, and own the outcome.
• Manage major strategy projects comprised of internal and/or external consulting resources.
• Provide periodic informal work guidance/direction to junior team members; provide performance input and recommendations to management for development/training plans.
• May have supervisory responsibilities on a project basis.
• Develop analytical frameworks, approach, and methodology best practices to analyze strategy issues.
• Consult with business owners to identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to the success of the initiative.
• Coordinate initiative impacts with other strategic initiatives to ensure alignment of the overall strategy.
• Work on other Enterprise level strategy projects as needed.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Benefits

• Highmark Health is a national, blended health organization that includes one of America’s largest Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers and a growing regional hospital and physician network. Based in Pittsburgh, Pa., Highmark Health’s 35,000 employees serve millions of customers nationwide through the nonprofit organization’s affiliated businesses, which include Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, HM Insurance Group, United Concordia Dental, HM Health Solutions and HM Home & Community Services. Highmark Health’s businesses proudly serve a broad spectrum of health-related needs including health insurance, health care delivery, population health management, dental solutions, reinsurance solutions, and innovative, technology solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior