Blue Shield Of California

Strategic Account Manager - Stellarus, Principal

Blue Shield Of California$100K — $130K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • 10 years of experience in customer success or strategic account management, particularly in healthcare or technology
  • Proven relationship-building skills with senior leaders and decision-makers
  • Strong understanding of health plan or enterprise business operations
  • Experience working with Product and Technology teams
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day and long-term success of assigned strategic customer accounts
  • Develop and execute account plans that align with customer goals
  • Maintain accountability for revenue renewal, customer satisfaction, and delivery of outcomes
  • Build and nurture relationships with senior stakeholders
  • Lead business reviews, communicating progress and priorities
  • Ensure customers achieve measurable value from solutions
  • Partner across teams to guide solution adoption and optimize customer outcomes

Benefits

  • Opportunities for personal, professional, and financial growth
  • Focus on developing leadership skills at all levels
  • Encouragement of creative and critical thinking
  • Support for building high-performing teams
  • Commitment to continuous learning
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Sales and Accounts Management team is responsible for ensuring Stellarus' customers achieve meaningful, sustained value from the platform and experience a high level of trust, partnership, and satisfaction. The Strategic Account Manager - Stellarus, Principal is a senior individual-contributor role responsible for managing and growing a portfolio of strategic customer accounts that are important to Stellarus' growth and customer outcomes, but do not carry the same enterprise-level risk or visibility as flagship accounts.

In this role, you will serve as the primary account owner for assigned strategic customers, developing account strategies, driving value realization and solution adoption, and partnering across Product, Technology, and Operations teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. You will engage regularly with senior leaders within customer organizations and operate with a high degree of independence, while escalating the most complex, high-risk, or enterprise-impacting issues to senior account leadership.

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.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Strategic Account Ownership
  • Own the day-to-day and long-term success of a portfolio of strategic customer accounts
  • Develop and execute account plans aligned to customer goals and Stellarus' broader strategic priorities
  • Maintain accountability for revenue renewal, recapture, and growth; customer satisfaction; retention; and delivery of agreed outcomes

Customer Relationship & Senior Leader Engagement
  • Build and nurture trusted relationships with senior and executive-level stakeholders within customer organizations
  • Lead regular business reviews and planning discussions, communicating progress, insights, and next-step priorities
  • Escalate complex or high-risk situations to senior account leadership when appropriate

Customer Value Realization & Solution Adoption
  • Ensure customers achieve measurable value from Stellarus solutions
  • Develop a strong understanding of customer workflows, challenges, and operational priorities
  • Partner with Customer Experience, Product, Technology, Clinical, and Operations teams to guide solution adoption and continuous improvement
  • Proactively identify opportunities to optimize customer outcomes or expand solution usage

Commercial Partnership & Retention Support
  • Support commercial activities for assigned accounts, including renewals and expansions, in partnership with Sales, Legal, and Finance
  • Provide account insights, value realization evidence, and relationship context to support renewal discussions
  • Surface growth opportunities aligned to customer needs while maintaining focus on trust and long-term partnership health

Cross-Functional Coordination & Customer Advocacy
  • Serve as the voice of the customer for assigned accounts, translating needs and insights into actionable guidance for internal teams
  • Support prioritization discussions for features, enhancements, and delivery sequencing related to assigned accounts
  • Monitor account health, risks, and dependencies; coordinate resolution across teams

Governance, Planning & Change Support
  • Participate in governance forums, integration planning, and roadmap discussions for assigned accounts
  • Support change management efforts related to new deployments, enhancements, or workflow changes
  • Communicate value and impact clearly to technical, operational, and executive audiences


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires 10 years of experience in customer success, strategic account management, healthcare consulting, or related roles within:
    • A health plan or payer organization
    • A healthcare or enterprise technology company
    • Another large, complex, regulated enterprise
  • Requires proven experience building trusted relationships with senior leaders and decision makers
  • Requires strong understanding of health plan or enterprise business operations
  • Requires experience working cross functionally with Product and Technology teams
  • Requires strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills


Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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1981

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