Strategic Planning and Performance, Principal - Office of Growth

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.

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. 

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

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 

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. 

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.