Senior Strategy Partner - Member Interaction & Engagement Data

Company

Highmark Health

This role supports the executive leadership of the organization with a range of strategy activities essential to ensuring the organization’s goals. Provide analytical/strategic thinking and leadership support that enables project teams to isolate business issues, design and execute analytics for studying business issues (market research, scenario planning, forecasting, market share, profitability, etc.), and develop technical content (competitive intelligence, market trend analysis).

A core component of this role includes the ability to ideate and sequence innovative data products, build comprehensive data needs roadmaps aligned with business objectives, and rigorously evaluate data quality, accuracy, and availability requirements.

Furthermore, this position supports the development of formal recommendations to senior levels of organizational leadership, creates documents (go-to-market or operational strategies, etc.) that inform critical strategic issues and decisions, supports the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy, and/or supports the execution of enterprise strategic initiatives through a disciplined process and approach.

• Work with business/market owners to identify key business issues, apply right analytical framework, develop solution and recommendations, represent findings to stakeholders, and own the outcome.
• Manage major strategy projects comprised of internal and/or external consulting resources.
• Provide periodic informal work guidance/direction to junior team members; provide performance input and recommendations to management for development/training plans. May have supervisory responsibilities on a project basis.
• Develop analytical frameworks, approach, and methodology best practices to analyze strategy issues.
• Consult with business owners to identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to the success of the initiative.
• Coordinate initiative impacts with other strategic initiatives to ensure alignment of the overall strategy.
• Work on other enterprise level strategy projects as needed.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, or related field, or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor’s degree.

Preferred: Master’s Degree in Business, or related field.

Required:

• 7 years of experience in strategic planning or related work experience.
• 2 years of consulting experience (external or internal) or equivalent combination of experience and advanced degree.

Preferred:

• 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.
• Support the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy.

• Understanding of the health care industry trends and challenges.
• Demonstrated relationship, influencing, collaboration, and teamwork skills. Needs to be able to lead cross-functional, cross-business unit teams in complex projects and handle internal politics of change.
• Strong project leadership/management skills.
• Strong emotional intelligence, with servant leadership mindset.
• Focus on impacts to the customer of decisions rendered.
• Proactive in driving change and continuous improvement.
• Team management skills.
• Deep analytical skills, with the ability to structure and perform complex analytics.

Language (Other than English): None.

Travel Requirement: 0% - 25%.

Position Type:
Office-based.

Teaches / trains others regularly:
Occasionally.

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site:
Rarely.

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees):
Never.

Physical work site required:
Yes.

Lifting: up to 10 pounds - Constantly.

Lifting: 10 to 25…