Strategy Consultant

GuideWell • Jacksonville, FL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 Associates to help form its foundation. As an Associate, you own a full module of an engagement: you frame the hypotheses, decide how the problem gets solved, direct the analysis, and carry it through to a recommendation you can defend to the business. You also own the day-to-day relationship with the stakeholders in your problem area — consulting-caliber ownership and a close-up view of a Fortune 500 health company, without the constant travel. You will thrive here if you would rather shape the approach than receive it, are comfortable being the person who owns a whole problem area, and want to go deep enough in a domain to be credible with the people who live in it every day. 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 join the team at this level: Own a whole problem, not a slice — a full module you run autonomously, with a recommendation that carries your name on it. Shape the thinking, not just the analysis — you set the hypotheses and pick the methods, and you are expected to have a point of view. Build durable domain expertise — go deep in Medicare Advantage, commercial, pharmacy, or another domain and become someone the business seeks out. Know exactly how to grow — clear, published levels and a competency model show what “great” looks like, all the way to Head of Enterprise Strategy. Or use the team as a launchpad into the business: mobility opens at this level, with optional 6–12 month secondments that carry a guaranteed path back, followed by sponsored placement. If you want to own a real problem area inside a Fortune 500 health company, and you want that work to matter, we would like to meet you.

Requirements

• 0 - 2 yrs of experience.
• 3+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, corporate development, or a comparable problem-solving role.
• Demonstrated experience owning a coherent problem area or workstream autonomously, from framing through to a recommendation.
• Per the team’s leveling map, a Senior Business Analyst from a top-tier firm typically enters here; industry and corporate-development backgrounds are leveled to demonstrated scope rather than title.
• 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 ability to own a full problem area end to end — framing the hypotheses, choosing the methods, and carrying the work through to a recommendation.
• Strong structuring and quantitative skills, including the judgment to know when a directional answer is enough and when precision matters.
• A track record of building a defensible narrative and presenting it to senior stakeholders under challenge.
• The ability to direct and review the work of junior colleagues while remaining accountable for the output.
• Enough domain depth to be credible with subject-matter experts — to ask the right questions and to push back on the answers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and comfort in the room with business-unit leadership.
• The ability to manage day-to-day stakeholder relationships, including where views compete.
• Advanced Excel modeling and PowerPoint, and comfort working with imperfect or incomplete data.
• Sound judgment about when to escalate — early and precisely, with a recommended course of action.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a top-tier strategy consultancy or in a corporate strategy group, including leading a workstream or module.
• Health care or insurance experience — payer, provider, pharmacy, or government programs.
• Depth in a specific domain such as Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pharmacy.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Working knowledge of a data or analytics tool beyond Excel (e.g., SQL, Python, R, Tableau, or Power BI).
• Experience codifying methods into reusable tools, templates, or team intellectual property.

Responsibilities

• Own a full engagement module — a coherent problem area — autonomously, from framing through to recommendation.
• Set and manage the module workplan, sequencing the analysis and making the trade-offs that keep it on time and on point.
• Direct the Analysts and Senior Analysts contributing to the module, and own the quality of everything that comes out of it.
• Escalate early and precisely when the answer is moving, the data will not support the question, or the scope needs to change.
• Frame the hypotheses for the module and choose the right analytical methods unprompted.
• Design analyses that answer the question rather than merely describe the data, and know when a rough cut is enough.
• Challenge the module’s own conclusions — look for the disconfirming evidence before someone else finds it.
• Build a module-level narrative end to end, moving from findings to a clear, defensible recommendation.
• Make the logic and the assumptions visible, so leaders can see what the recommendation rests on and where it is sensitive.
• Present the module to project leadership and business-unit stakeholders, and hold up under challenge.
• Guide the junior colleagues working in your module — set direction, review their work, and give direct, timely feedback.
• Codify the methods that worked into reusable tools, templates, and intellectual property for the team.
• Help onboard new hires and pass on the team’s standards and working norms.
• Manage the day-to-day relationships with the business-unit stakeholders inside your module, and keep them informed as the answer takes shape.
• Build fluency in a domain — Medicare Advantage, commercial, pharmacy, or similar — deep enough to be credible with its subject-matter experts.
• Partner with finance, data owners, and subject-matter experts to source what the module needs and validate what it concludes.

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

What This Job Offers

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