Assistant Director Strategic Business Planning and Execution

Assistant Director, Strategic Business Planning and Execution

Work from Home within Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Utah 

Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system.  

Who We Are Looking For: 

Every day, Cambia’s dedicated team is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the Customer Experience team, our Assistant Director, Strategic Business Planning and Execution oversees the creation, deployment and tracking of organizational short- and long-term strategic plans, – all in service of making our members’ health journeys easier.

As a people leader, you are willing to learn and grow, understanding that leadership is a craft that is continuously honed as you support your team and the lives that depend upon us.

Are you a strategic planner with the drive to get things DONE? Are you passionate about customer experience? Then this role may be the perfect fit. 

What You Bring to Cambia: 

Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration or related field
• 10+ years of business experience (preferably in healthcare), including 5+ years’ in business planning or project management and 5+ years working directly with senior management to execute strategic initiatives.

Skills and Attributes: 

• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, budget, and prioritize operational activities to ensure smoothly run business operations.
• Demonstrated success concurrently driving multiple complex initiatives to completion.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate initiatives and bring people together across multiple locations, lines of businesses, and functions.
• Able to lead, manage and influence cross functional project teams effectively and without direct management authority.
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and has a significant analytical ability including demonstrated experience leading and facilitating planning and strategy sessions with executive leadership.
• Experience leveraging industry standard methodologies in the areas of Business Architecture, Business Process Management, Continuous Improvement, Business Process Outsourcing and/or Change Management.
• Demonstrated expertise in a variety of modeling techniques to capture process, business rules, requirements, information flow, etc. Examples include BPMN process models, use cases, class diagrams, state diagrams, fishbone diagrams, etc.
• Proven results developing, analyzing, and implementing business service and business process performance improvements (speed, cost, and quality).
• Ability to envision future state business services/processes and to construct roadmaps representing evolution from current to future state.
• Demonstrated excellent negotiation abilities with peers, partners, and all levels of leadership.

What You Will Do at Cambia:  

• Provides strategic planning expertise and thought leadership to drive the development and deployment of organizational short- and long-term strategic plans. 
• Partner with Senior Leadership team to ensure business partner alignment, and facilitate prioritization, scope control, and resource allocation decisions necessary to support strategic plans.
• Develop, execute, and ensure alignment on organizational strategic planning operating rhythm.  Assesses on-going progress toward strategic goals and recommends revisions to the strategic plan based on evaluation of results.
• Manage the execution of necessary change management, continuous improvement, organizational design, communication and organizational transformation initiatives.
• Establish effective lines of communication among cross-functional teams and stakeholders.  Build relationships as needed. 
• Partners with team members to drive the department communication and change management strategy and related key messages for stakeholders across the organization.
• Coaches virtual team to ensure a high performing team.  
• Uses deep business expertise to drive alignment and execution of activities in line with project or business objectives.
• Facilitates prioritization, alignment and scope control conversations and decisions with leadership.
• Defines information flow and workflow to clarify/improve process efficiency. Analyzes and recommends improvements to core and support processes, as needed, to support strategic and operational goals.
• Provides strategic viewpoint and recommends long-term roadmap for improving areas of opportunity.
• May help manage strategic partner relationships, processes, and projects in partnership with senior leaders, as needed.
• As a member of our strong leadership community, you will provide direction to your team, engage them towards common goals and create a positive experience that helps people flourish.  

The expected hiring range for an AD of Strategic Business Planning & Execution is $145,350-196,650 depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history. The bonus target for this position is 20%.  The current full salary range for this role is $136,000-223,000.

About Cambia

Working at Cambia means being part of a purpose-driven, award-winning culture built on trust and innovation anchored in our 100+ year history. Our caring and supportive colleagues are some of the best and brightest in the industry, innovating together toward sustainable, person-focused health care.  Whether we're helping members, lending a hand to a colleague or volunteering in our communities, our compassion, empathy and team spirit always shine through.

Why Join the Cambia Team?

At Cambia, you can:  

• Work alongside diverse teams building cutting-edge solutions to transform health care.  
• Earn a competitive salary and enjoy generous benefits while doing work that changes lives.  
• Grow your career with a company committed to helping you succeed. 
• Give back to your community by participating in Cambia-supported outreach programs.  
• Connect with colleagues who share similar interests and backgrounds through our employee resource groups.  

We believe a career at Cambia is more than just a paycheck – and your compensation should be too. Our compensation package includes competitive base pay as well as a market-leading 401(k) with a significant company match, bonus opportunities and more.  

In exchange for helping members live healthy lives, we offer benefits that empower you to do the same. Just a few highlights include: 

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits. 
• Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.  
• Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company-paid holidays. 
• Market-leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period). 
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave). 
• Award-winning wellness programs that reward you for participation. 
• Employee Assistance Fund for those in need. 
• Commute and parking benefits. 

Learn more about our benefits. 

We are happy to offer work from home options for most of our roles. To take advantage of this flexible option, we require employees to have a wired internet connection that is not satellite or cellular and internet service with a minimum upload speed of 5Mb and a minimum download speed of 10 Mb.