JOB DESCRIPTION
Your Role

The Promise Strategic Planning and Performance team develops long-term and short-term strategy, performance reporting and provides performance oversight on behalf of Promise Health Plan. The team leads multiple planning processes to ensure critical capabilities to support sustainable compliance, operational performance, and growth are built and maintained, while meeting our financial targets and regulatory commitments. Additionally, the team completes all required activities to secure strategic funding and prioritization, including drafting investment summaries, cost value analyses, dependency mapping and sequencing, and agile methodologies. The Strategic Planning and Performance, Principal – Medi-Cal will play a key role in creating, communicating, and supporting the delivery of our strategic plans and improve how we partner with stakeholders across Blue Shield to deliver on the plan efficiently and effectively.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for facilitating cross-functional strategic planning processes to develop and maintain long-term and short-term strategic plans
• Support securing prioritization and funding for initiatives by creating a variety of planning artifacts and communications for leadership consumption
• Ensure strategic direction of initiatives and programs are aligned with organizational goals and objectives, keeping at the forefront the needs of our members and external stakeholders
• Work in conjunction with our financial and human resource partners to support ongoing budget planning and human capital planning
• Build a breath of experience across business functions regarding business performance and current state gaps to be able to connect the dots in a meaningful way to problem solve for capability gaps
• Identify risks and issues, escalate appropriately, and execute sound mitigation plans
• Consult and make recommendations to senior management on significant issues impacting the health of the business
• Track progress against organizational and provide performance reporting of these efforts
• Create, manage, and/or update key components of executive communication to ensure consistency, engagement, and continuity across the Medi-Cal program
• Provide end-to-end meeting support for key governance forums

QUALIFICATIONS
Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience
• Master’s Degree in related field (e.g. MBA, MPH) preferred
• Previous experience with the Medi-Cal Program preferred
• Expertise in strategic planning, program/portfolio management, competitive analysis, and/or related discipline to support strategy development, business case development, financial analysis, and outcomes evaluation required
• Strategic, systems thinker with an eye for detail, is organized, and can manage multiple programs simultaneously and effectively
• Ability to collaborate with leaders at all levels, problem solve complex problems, build productive relationships, and influence without authority
  

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 145200.00 to $ 217800.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

ABOUT THE TEAM
Blue Shield of California’s mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that truly serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.

Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area’s top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world’s most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in – join us!

Our Values:

• Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human . We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
• Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

From the earliest days of the pandemic, Blue Shield of California has been unyielding in our commitment to putting the health and safety of our people, our members and our communities first. As a health care company, Blue Shield requires all employees to be up to date with COVID-19 vaccination prior to start date as a condition of employment. Blue Shield will consider requests for medical or religious accommodation to this vaccination requirement prior to your start date.

The definition of "up to date with your COVID-19 vaccine" is when you have received all doses in the primary series and one booster when eligible. If you are unable to be up to date with your COVID-19 vaccine by your start date, your start date will need to be postponed and you will have 30 days to remedy. If you cannot fulfill the requirement nor obtain an accommodation within 30 days, your offer will be rescinded.