Blue Shield Of California

Strategic Planning and Performance, Principal - Office of Growth

Blue Shield Of California$120K — $145K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
  • 10 years of prior experience in strategic planning and performance management
  • Experience supporting executive-level governance forums like Monthly Business Reviews
  • Strong expertise in strategic planning, portfolio management, and prioritization
  • Experience in payer/provider or healthcare growth strategy environments
  • Demonstrated executive-level communication skills, with proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel

Responsibilities

  • Lead governance and operational enablement of the enterprise growth strategy
  • Support planning and facilitation of executive governance forums
  • Establish standardized processes for visibility into operational outcomes and risks
  • Drive alignment across cross-functional teams for operational priorities
  • Partner with executives to synthesize insights and escalate risks
  • Develop and manage enterprise growth roadmaps including strategic and operational plans
  • Coordinate execution of strategic priorities with Markets leaders

Benefits

  • Flexible workplace model encouraging balance between in-person collaboration and remote work
  • Commitment to reasonable accommodations for employees with medical conditions
  • Collaborative environment fostering creativity and connection
  • Clear expectations for in-office presence based on business needs
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Office of Growth team leads enterprise-wide coordination and execution of the organization's growth strategy across markets and lines of business. The Strategic Planning and Performance Principal will report to the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Performance under the Office of Growth and play a critical role in operationalizing growth priorities, ensuring alignment across business units, and enabling executive governance. In this role, you will serve as a central driver of growth strategy execution by establishing structured governance, leading strategic planning processes, and ensuring transparency of priorities, risks, and outcomes across senior leadership forums.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Governance & Operational Enablement of Growth Strategy
    • Lead governance and operational enablement of the enterprise growth strategy across markets and lines of business
    • Support planning, coordination, and facilitation of executive governance forums including CEO Monthly Business Review (MBR)
    • Establish standardized processes, reporting, and performance tracking to ensure visibility into operational, outcomes, and risks
    • Drive alignment across cross-functional teams to ensure execution against operational priorities and commitments
    • Partner with executive stakeholders to synthesize insights, escalate risks, and enable data-driven decision making
    • Ensure continuity and follow-through of action items, commitments, and performance outcomes across governance cycles
    • Supports the development of materials for enterprise leadership forums and Board level discussions related to growth performance and strategy
  • Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management
    • Support end-to-end strategic planning processes including intake, prioritization, backlog management, and roadmap development
    • Develop and manage enterprise and line-of-business growth roadmaps, including 3-year strategic plans and annual operating plans
    • Facilitate prioritization frameworks that balance enterprise objectives, market needs, and resource constraints
    • Partner with business, finance leaders and Stellarus to develop business cases, quantify impact, and support investment decisions
    • Implement structured planning disciplines to drive accountability, transparency, and execution rigor across initiatives
  • Markets Priorities and Initiatives
    • Drive Markets strategic priorities and initiatives as assigned
    • Partner with Markets leaders and cross-functional teams to define initiative scope, objectives, milestones, and success measures
    • Coordinate execution across stakeholders, clarify accountabilities, and drive timely completion of deliverables and decisions
    • Monitor progress, dependencies, and risks; escalate issues and provide clear updates and recommendations to Markets leadership


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Requires a bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
  • Requires 10 years of prior relevant experience
  • Requires experience supporting executive-level governance forums (e.g., MQBRs, senior leadership reviews)
  • Requires strong strategic planning, portfolio management, and prioritization expertise
  • Requires experience working in payer/provider or healthcare growth strategy environments
  • Requires demonstrated executive-level communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise, and impactful executive-ready PowerPoint presentations; proficiency in Excel for data management, analysis, reporting, and decision support
  • Ability to influence across senior leadership and drive enterprise-level alignment is desired


Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
  • For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
  • Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
  • For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

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.
Learn more about Blue Shield Of California
Size
7,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1981

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