Health Care Service Corporation

Executive Director, Business Transformation

Health Care Service Corporation$191K — $355K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 15 years experience or Master's degree with 3 years in strategic consulting or related fields
  • 5 years in strategic projects at top tier consulting firm
  • 10 years management or leadership experience in a complex organization
  • Expertise in strategic insight development and long-term roadmap creation
  • Strong project management and analytical skills

Responsibilities

  • Drive execution of enterprise-wide transformation initiatives from start to finish
  • Translate strategic priorities into actionable transformation roadmaps
  • Identify and design AI- and technology-enabled solutions to reshape work processes
  • Govern transformation portfolio to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy
  • Serve as a trusted partner to senior leaders for decision-making and stakeholder alignment
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of transformation leaders

Benefits

  • Health and wellness benefits
  • 401(k) and pension plans
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Disability and life insurance options
  • Tuition reimbursement and other incentives
  • Employee assistance program
  • Paid holidays
Full Job Description
Job Summary

This position is responsible for designing AI- and technology-enabled transformations that materially improve performance and position the enterprise for long-term success. This role is responsible for the full transformation lifecycle-from opportunity identification and operating model design through execution and sustained value realization.
Operating as a trusted partner to Sr. Business and IT Leaders, the ED bridges strategy, business, and technology, ensuring transformation investments are tightly aligned to enterprise priorities and deliver measurable outcomes. The role also builds and leads a high-performing team of transformation and change management leaders and cultivates an innovation-led, execution-focused culture.

Job Responsibilities:

Enterprise Transformation Leadership
  • Drive end-to-end execution of enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, including opportunity identification, prioritization, business case development, delivery, and value realization
  • Translate strategic priorities into actionable transformation roadmaps with clear financial and operational outcomes


AI & Technology-Enabled Change
  • Identify, design, and scale AI-, data-, and technology-enabled solutions (including agentic and automation use cases) that fundamentally reshape how work gets done
  • Partner closely with technology and business leaders to integrate digital and AI capabilities into core operating models


Value & Investment Management
  • Shape and govern the transformation portfolio, ensuring investments are aligned to the enterprise strategy and deliver committed value
  • Ensure compelling business cases, clear ROI, and rigorous benefit tracking across initiatives


Senior Executive Partnership
  • Serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders, accelerating decisions, removing execution barriers, and aligning stakeholders across the enterprise
  • Act as a connective tissue between corporate strategy, business units, and technology teams


People & Capability Building
  • Build, lead, and develop a team of high-caliber transformation leaders
  • Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement


Required Job Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree and 15 years professional work experience including experience at a top-tier consulting firm in strategy and/or large-scale Technology-enabled transformation roles or Advanced degree and 13 years professional work experience including experience at a top-tier consulting firm in strategy and/or large-scale Technology-enabled transformation roles
  • 10 years' Experience leading a team and other people leaders
  • Senior leadership experience driving complex transformations within large, matrixed organizations
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional, enterprise-scale initiatives with measurable business impact
  • Exceptional executive presence with a demonstrated ability to influence at the C-suite level


Preferred Job Qualifications
  • Strong Technology and AI foundation, including experience with digital agents and agentic automation
  • Healthcare, insurance, or highly regulated industry experience
  • Track record of building and scaling transformation or innovation capabilities inside an enterprise


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Pay Transparency Statement:

At Health Care Service Corporation, you will be part of an organization committed to offering meaningful benefits to our employees to support their life outside of work. From health and wellness benefits, 401(k) savings plan, pension plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, disability insurance, supplemental life insurance, employee assistance program, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, plus other incentives, we offer a robust total rewards package for employees. Learn more about our benefit offerings by visiting https://careers.hcsc.com/totalrewards.

The compensation offered will vary depending on your job-related skills, education, knowledge, and experience. This role aligns with an annual incentive bonus plan subject to the terms and the conditions of the plan.

Base Pay Range
$191,500.00 - $355,600.00

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

About Health Care Service Corporation

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is the largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States. HCSC offers a wide variety of health insurance products and related services, through its operating divisions and subsidiaries in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. HCSC's headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois.
Learn more about Health Care Service Corporation
Size
24,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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