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Blue Shield Of California

Strategic Planning and Performance, Consultant - Medicare

Blue Shield Of California, Woodland Hills, California, us, 91371


Your Role

The Medicare team is accountable for membership growth, profit and loss, performance optimization, and overall customer experience for the Medicare line of business. The Strategic Planning and Performance, Consultant - Medicare will report to the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Performance. In this role you will support the success of the Medicare operating model through leading key initiatives that enable achievement of key goals, driving performance governance activities, and supporting employee engagement, communications, and leadership activities. You will help connect the dots and bridge the gap between Medicare goals and cross-functional work and priorities. Additionally, you will collaborate to lead end-to-end strategic partnership development and establish and manage overarching vendor oversight for Medicare in support of critical goals.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Be responsible for planning and implementation of moderately complex projectsRecommend effective action plans based on key business issues and implements to successful conclusionBe responsible for facilitating annual strategic planning processAssist financial partners to complete business planning and forecastingAssist in overseeing budget planning as part of the annual budget cycleIdentify and resolve gaps in processes and oversight to ensure achievement of Medicare goals and targetsDrive departmental projects in benefit of Medicare, including those that support Medicare growth, profitability, performance optimization, experience, etc.Support monitoring and optimizing Medicare performance by leading preparations for key Medicare performance governance meetings; collaborate with functional area partners to ensure their priorities are in line with Medicare prioritiesBuild, implement, and manage an overarching, end-to-end vendor management governance model for the Medicare line of business to ensure vendor partners continuously meet compliance, contractual, and experience expectationsYour Knowledge and Experience

Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experienceRequires at least 7 years of prior relevant experienceRequires Program Management and Business Planning experience; vendor management experience preferredRequires health plan or provider experience; Medicare experience highly preferredRequires executive level presentation skills and meeting preparationsDemonstrated ability to collaborate and drive complex work with positive outcomes and target/ goal achievementAbility to influence and communicate effectively with people at all levels, including executives

Pay Range:The pay range for this role is: $ 118800.00 to $ 178200.00 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.