Strategic Business Initiatives Leader

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• Posted on October 19, 2026

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• Hybrid
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: ENTER
  006323

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for.

We're a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration — because success is a team sport. It's our mission to be there in the moments that matter most for our members and employees. Join us in creating a community of connected care, where coordinated, quality service is the norm, and every member feels valued.

The Strategic Business Initiatives Leader serves as a senior strategic advisor and execution partner to the Chief Growth & Strategy Officer (CGSO) for the Markets organization and the SVP, Product Strategy and Business Development. This role functions as a chief-of-staff–style leader with a strong grounding in health care strategy, payer dynamics, and enterprise execution.

The role is accountable for helping translate market strategy into action—ensuring priorities are clear, leaders are aligned, and work is moving forward across a complex SVP/VP leadership structure. Working closely with the CGSO, SVP Product Strategy and Business Development and their respective Executive Assistants, this leader enables effective executive presence, disciplined follow-up, and strong information flow up and down the organization.

In addition, the Strategic Business Initiatives Leader plays a key role in planning and facilitating high-stakes internal and external strategic forums, supporting executive communications, and ensuring that both the CGSO and the SVP, Product Strategy and Business Development are visible, prepared, and impactful with both internal teams and external partners.

The ideal candidate brings deep health plan experience, strong strategic judgment, and the credibility to engage directly with senior leaders to drive outcomes. Performs other duties as assigned.

Key Accountabilities:

• Strategic Advisory & Executive Enablement
  • Act as a trusted strategic advisor and execution partner to the CGSO & SVP Product Strategy and Business Development, supporting enterprise‑level
    thinking across Product, Markets, Network, and growth priorities and helping translate enterprise growth and product strategy into clear priorities,
    decisions, and executable plans
  • Partner closely with the Executive Assistant to proactively manage priorities, anticipate decision needs, and ensure follow‑through
  • Act as a trusted thought partner to the CGSO and the SVP Product Strategy and Business Development for key engagements by synthesizing complex information, pressure-testing strategic assumptions, identifying implications and tradeoffs, ensuring decisions are supported by appropriate market, financial, operational, and customer perspectives and framing strategic talking points
  • Enable consistent information flow between the CGSO, SVP Product Strategy and Business Development and direct reports (SVPs/VPs), ensuring alignment, clarity, and accountability
• Health Care Strategy Execution & Follow-Through
  • Drive execution of key Product, Markets and growth initiatives by coordinating work across SVPs, VPs, and functional leaders
  • Follow up directly with senior leaders to…