Carelon Innovation Enablement Director

Carelon Innovation Enablement Director

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Carelon Innovation Enablement Director is responsible for partnering across Carelon Strategy & Growth, Product, Business Units, Sales, Technology, and other enterprise stakeholders to accelerate strategic priorities through structured problem solving, operating model design, and execution enablement. The role serves as a catalyst for innovation by helping translate strategy into actionable capabilities, piloting new approaches, and building scalable operating models that enable long-term enterprise growth.

How you will make an impact:

• Partner with executive leadership to identify, structure, and accelerate high-impact strategic initiatives across Carelon.

• Lead cross-functional efforts to solve complex business challenges through strategic analysis, operating model design, and executive facilitation.

• Design and implement new enterprise capabilities, governance models, and operating frameworks that improve organizational effectiveness and execution.

• Support innovation efforts through structured test-and-learn pilots, capability incubation, and rapid experimentation.

• Develop business cases, executive presentations, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps to support leadership decision-making.

• Partner across Product, Growth, Sales, Technology, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to align stakeholders and remove barriers to execution.

• Identify opportunities to simplify enterprise processes, improve governance, and accelerate delivery of strategic priorities.

• Monitor initiative progress, risks, and outcomes, ensuring successful transition of mature capabilities to long-term business owners.

• Investigates and manages internal and external issues, to include provider issues, clinical issues, and other inquiries.

• Develops Carelon Medical Benefits Management's solution innovation strategy and leads Carelon Medical Benefits Management's business partnership strategy.

• Provides analytic and business insight across Carelon Medical Benefits Management.

• Investigates and manages internal and external issues on an ad hoc basis including provider issues, clinical issues, and other inquiries.

• May provide leadership and/or oversight of projects, project teams and/or external consultants.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a BA/BS degree in a related area and a minimum of 10 years of increasingly responsible business and professional experience including 3 years of leadership experience in a related field; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• Master's degree preferred.

• Experience in management consulting, strategy, product management, enterprise transformation, operating model design, or program leadership.

• Demonstrated ability to lead highly complex, cross-functional initiatives in ambiguous environments.

• Experience developing executive-level communications, governance models, and enterprise operating frameworks.

• Strong analytical, facilitation, and executive communication skills.

• Experience working across healthcare, technology, product, or growth organizations is preferred.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location, the salary range for this specific position is $205,040 to $307,560

Location:

Chicago IL

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k…