The posting
Job Description
Your Role
The Commercial Growth and Strategy department partners across Commercial Markets’ lines of businesses to execute go-to-market strategies, manage strategic vendor partnerships and customer solutions, strengthen sales enablement through RFPs, quotes, and internal training, and ensures implementation of new Commercial groups. The Strategic Planning and Performance Consultant reports to the Director of Commercial Markets Strategy. In this role, you will support the development of strategies and action plans for critical Commercial market opportunities, design actionable business solutions and recommendations, drive cross-functional collaboration, and execute key departmental priorities.
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:
- Support the development, planning and execution of cross-functional programs and initiatives in a highly matrixed environment
- Build action plans, orchestrate leadership and stakeholder meetings from planning to follow-up, and track action items
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to assess and coordinate the operational impacts of new regulatory and compliance requirements on Commercial Markets
- Collaborate with leadership to create executive messaging, presentations, and dashboards that advance strategic priorities
- Support the Director of Commercial Markets Strategy with department operations and other key priorities
- Learn and assist with processing new and custom renewal groups for the Specialty Market
- Provide consultation to leadership on critical challenges and recommend actions to inform effective decision-making
- Navigate complex, ambiguous business challenges by synthesizing limited information and evaluating intangible factors
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 7 years of prior relevant experience
- Requires prior experience and understanding of the health insurance industry
- Requires experience developing PowerPoint presentations and executive communications that support decision-making
- Requires experience using excel for analytics with the ability to develop and analyze performance reports and dashboards
- Requires demonstrated experience working with multiple stakeholders and ability to coordinate cross-functionally to drive change
- Prefer exposure to strategy development and execution
About Blue Shield of California
As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.
At Blue Shield of California, our mission is to create a healthcare system worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Blue Shield is a U.S. News Best Company to work for, a Deloitte U.S. Best Managed Company and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace. We were recognized by Fair360 as a Top Regional Company, and one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States by Points of Light. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities – join us!
Our Values:
- Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
- Human. We strive to listen and communicate effectively, showing empathy by understanding others' perspectives.
- Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.
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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Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.



