Strategy Analyst

GuideWell • Jacksonville, FL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Strategy Analyst is the analytical engine behind GuideWell’s in-house strategy engagements. Working as part of a small team on discrete, time-bound projects, the Analyst builds the models, market analyses, and research that support a workstream, and turns internal and external data into clean, decision-ready deliverables — slides, memos, and data cuts — under the direction of an engagement lead. This is an entry-level role and the first rung of the Enterprise Strategy career ladder: the priority is to do accurate, high-quality work while learning the core consulting toolkit — problem structuring, analytics, and storylining — and the fundamentals of how a health plan operates. As they grow, strong Analysts take on more ownership of their workstreams and advance toward Senior Analyst and Associate roles. GuideWell is building an in-house Enterprise Strategy team — a strategy and internal-consulting group that works on the company’s most important questions — and we are hiring Analysts to help form its foundation. As an Analyst, you are the analytical engine of the team: you build the models, market analyses, and research behind our recommendations, and you turn data into clean, decision-ready slides, memos, and analyses that reach senior leaders. It is a rare early-career seat — consulting-caliber problem-solving and a close-up view of a Fortune 500 health company, without the constant travel. This is an entry-level role built for someone at the start of their career. You do not need years of experience — you need to be sharp, curious, careful with detail, and hungry to learn. We will teach you the rest: how to structure a problem, how to run the analysis, and how to tell a clear story with what you find. What makes GuideWell different: A not-for-profit, mission-driven company — one of the nation’s largest health insurers and a Fortune 500 organization — whose purpose is helping people and communities achieve better health. Core Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans in Florida (Florida Blue) and Puerto Rico (Triple-S), with deep ties to government-sponsored health care and the members who rely on it. A diversified portfolio that reaches well beyond insurance — including GuideWell Health care delivery (Sanitas Medical Centers, GuideWell Emergency Doctors, and Florida Health Care Plans), GuideWell Source, WebTPA, and Lucet — serving tens of millions of people across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A policyholder-owned, long-term orientation and a strong balance sheet that let us invest in health-care-defining capabilities rather than chase quarterly results. Deep community trust and a genuine focus on impact in everything we do. Why start your career on this team: Learn faster than almost anywhere else — consulting-caliber training in problem-solving, analytics, and communication, with a senior teammate coaching your work on every engagement. Do real work that matters from day one — your analysis feeds recommendations that reach senior leaders and, at times, the Board, on problems that affect millions of members. Know exactly how to grow — clear, published levels and a competency model show what “great” looks like and how promotion works, from Analyst to Senior Analyst to Associate and beyond. Build a foundation, not a dead end — grow a full career in strategy, or, once you have built the toolkit, use the team as a launchpad into a role in the business, carrying your skills and network with you. Get the challenge and variety of consulting inside a mission-driven company, without the lifestyle cost of constant travel. If you are early in your career, want your work to matter, and like the idea of learning to think like a strategist while helping people achieve better health, we would like to meet you.

Requirements

• 0 - 2 yrs of experience. No prior full-time experience required — this is an entry-level, campus-hire role.
• Internships, co-ops, or academic projects involving data analysis, research, modeling, or structured problem-solving are a plus.
• A demonstrated ability to do careful, accurate quantitative work — in coursework, research, an internship, or a project or competition.
• Bachelor’s degree
• All majors welcome; coursework in a quantitative or analytical field (economics, finance, statistics, data or analytics, engineering, health, and the like) is a plus.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the instinct to dig into data and work out what it is telling you.
• Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint, and eagerness to build deeper modeling and analytical skills.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.
• Sharp attention to detail and a habit of double-checking your own work.
• Genuine curiosity about health care and about how organizations make strategic decisions.
• The ability to manage your time, juggle multiple priorities, and ask for help when you need it.
• A collaborative, low-ego, reliable approach, and a real appetite for feedback and learning.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and picking up new tools and methods quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Internship or project experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, data or analytics, or a similar role.
• Exposure to health care, insurance, or another regulated industry through coursework, internships, or research.
• Working knowledge of a data or analytics tool beyond Excel (e.g., SQL, Python, R, Tableau, or Power BI).
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree
• Quantitative, analytical, business, or health-related field preferred (e.g., economics, finance, statistics, data science, engineering, or public health).

Responsibilities

• Build the financial models, market analyses, and quantitative research that support an assigned workstream.
• Gather and synthesize internal and external data — company data, market and competitor information, and published research — into a clear, well-organized fact base.
• Run defined analyses accurately and check your own work, surfacing assumptions, gaps, and anything that looks off.
• Produce clear, error-free slides, memos, and data cuts under the direction of an engagement lead.
• Turn analysis into simple, well-structured exhibits that make the “so what” easy to see.
• Incorporate feedback quickly, and keep files, versions, and source data organized and easy to follow.
• Learn and apply the team’s core toolkit: problem structuring, analytics, and storylining.
• Build a working understanding of how a health plan works — its products, members, and core economics.
• Seek out coaching, act on feedback, and steadily take on more of a workstream as your skills grow.
• Manage your own tasks, priorities, and deadlines, and flag progress and blockers early.
• Be a reliable, responsive teammate who earns the trust of the engagement team.
• Contribute to team culture, and share reusable analysis, templates, and tools that make the whole team better.
• Work with business-unit subject-matter experts and data owners to source information and sanity-check findings.
• Help the engagement team prepare for stakeholder discussions and working sessions.
• Represent the Enterprise Strategy team professionally in day-to-day interactions across GuideWell.

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

What This Job Offers

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