Your Role

The Enterprise Rapid Response team is an internal consulting function that supports the business in executing strategic priorities and resolving critical business issues in a sustainable, repeatable, and scalable way. The Enterprise Rapid Response, Senior Principal will report to the VP, Enterprise Rapid Response. In this role you will be responsible for leading the planning and execution of strategic special projects, partner with business leaders to assess and develop recommendations to solve key business problems and build systems, tools and infrastructure to hard wire and operationalize business solutions. You will work across the enterprise to drive improved performance and achievement of organizational goals. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building, and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Build strong and sustainable trusting relationships with senior executives and at all levels of the organization, internally and externally, to partner together to deliver care worthy of our family and friends
• Work cooperatively and strategically in a team environment with all levels of professional, technical, and administrative staff and to bring together resources on a timely and organized basis
• Work collaboratively in an influential manner to bring stakeholders together to ensure alignment of project objectives to enable execution
• Demonstrate agile leader behaviors and process improvement focus to identify opportunities and execute business solutions to achieve outcomes
• Provide regular status reporting to senior leadership on project status and outcomes
• Serve as point person for driving and facilitating annual and long-term strategic planning process for Line of Business/functional area to achieve markets growth goals
• Facilitate the strategy, design, development, and alignment of the organizational business plan inclusive of goals and objectives to achieve it
• Perform business planning, human resource planning and budgeting for Line of Business (LOB)
• Oversee budget planning as part of the annual budget cycle
• Measure effectiveness and efficiency of operational processes both internally and externally and support ways to improve processes key to the Business Unit leader and their management team

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Master's degree with an emphasis on healthcare or business preferred
• Requires at least 10 years prior relevant experience
• Requires at least 5 years in health care industry with a preference for experience on the payor or provider side and a knowledge of core healthcare measures of success
• At least 5 years of internal or external consulting experience, strongly preferred
• Requires program/project design and management, business process management or improvement experience; Lean, Six Sigma, and PMP certifications a plus
• Requires the ability to prioritize, manage, and influence work trade-offs against critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment, while building alignment and accountability with Executive leadership, without formal ownership or authority over talent resources
• Requires exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to communicate effectively at an executive level, with a keen attention to detail
• Requires critical thinking and with the ability to handle complex situations and problems, utilizing data to drive decision-making

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 172,260.00 to $ 258,280.00 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.