Strategy Partner, Senior

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City•Kansas City, MO

19h

About The Position

This role supports the organization’s executive leadership through strategy activities that advance organizational goals. It provides analytical and strategic thinking and leadership support to project teams, including isolating business issues, designing and executing analyses such as market research, scenario planning, forecasting, market share, and profitability analyses, and developing competitive intelligence and market-trend content. The position supports formal recommendations to senior organizational leaders and creates documents such as go-to-market or operational strategies to inform critical decisions. It also supports the planning, communication, and management of enterprise strategy and the disciplined execution of strategic initiatives. The role works with business and market owners to identify important issues, select analytical approaches, develop solutions and recommendations, present findings, and own outcomes. It manages major strategy projects involving internal and/or external consulting resources, develops analytical frameworks and methodology best practices, consults on complex issues, and coordinates initiative impacts to maintain alignment across the overall strategy. It may provide informal guidance to junior team members and project-based supervision, and may take on other enterprise strategy work as needed.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Business or a 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.

Responsibilities

Work with business and market owners to identify key business issues, apply appropriate analytical frameworks, develop solutions and recommendations, present findings to stakeholders, and own outcomes.
Manage major strategy projects involving internal and/or external consulting resources.
Provide periodic informal work guidance and direction to junior team members and provide performance input and recommendations for development or training plans; may have project-based supervisory responsibilities.
Develop analytical frameworks, approaches, and methodology best practices for analyzing strategy issues.
Consult with business owners to identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to initiative success.
Coordinate initiative impacts with other strategic initiatives to ensure alignment with the overall strategy.
Work on other enterprise-level strategy projects as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.
Support the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy.