Business Strategy Planning and Execution Director

Business Strategy Plan and Execution 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. Willing to consider locations other than those listed.

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 accommodation is granted as required by law.

Carelon, a proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, is a healthcare services organization that takes a whole-health approach to making care more integrated, personalized, and affordable. We put people at the center-connecting physical, behavioral, social, and pharmacy services, along with clinical expertise, research, operations, and advanced technology to help care work better, together. Among us are specialty-care physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, engineers, data scientists, and other dedicated and caring health professionals.

While our roles may differ, our purpose is shared: to make a positive impact on whole health.

The Business Strategy Plan and Execution Director is responsible for strategic planning and customer insight work in partnership with business units and will be part of the Carelon Execution Center of Excellence which is nested within Carelon's Strategy & Growth organization. Will work across Carelon businesses to accelerate Carelon's most critical priorities through strategic problem solving, capability building, and execution. Prior engagements include business unit strategy development, new capability development, and operating model design.

How you will make an impact:

• Manages strategic projects, reports and analysis. Leads the development and direction of selected issues and projects.
• Supports complex, high-profile initiatives (at times multiple initiatives concurrently) at the direction of the VP of Growth & Strategy
• Understands all aspects of the business and partners with executive leadership to define strategy and successful criteria for the future.
• Translates strategy into defined tactics, programs/projects priorities, and timelines and ensures alignment and attainment of enterprises strategic plans to turn strategy into reality.
• Documents strategic priorities such as external environment and reports on customer insight research initiatives.
• Builds and leverages relationships to provide innovative solutions to complex business problems.
• Identifies and proposes opportunities to improve results based on continuous needs assessment.
• Propagates execution methods, techniques, or approaches that improve execution confidence and reduce risk
• Responsible for the development implementation and monitoring of line of business planning and project activities.
• Travels to worksite and other locations as necessary.

Minimum Requirements:

BA/BS degree in a related field and a minimum of 10 years of related experience including prior leadership experience and 3 years of strategic planning; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• Strong program management skills and a track record of working through ambiguity in a complex, multi-stakeholder corporate environment is preferred.
• Prior strategy or management consulting experience is preferred.
• Experience translating complex, technical information into presentation-friendly formats, including graphical displays, to a wide variety of internal and external executive audiences is strongly preferred.

• Healthcare domain experience on the payor or provider side preferred
• Prior experience supporting complex, high-profile initiatives is strongly preferred.
• Program/project set-up, advisory, governance, and management experience is preferred.
• Developing and delivering Executive-level communications is preferred, as all internal clients are sVP+ Leaders.
• Master's degree preferred.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below locations, the salary range for this specific position is $137,920 to 227,568

Location(s):
Illinois, Virginia

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of…