Senior Strategy & Execution Leader, Health Plans

Medica; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Medica, a nonprofit health plan, seeks a Strategic Business Initiatives Leader to serve as a senior advisor and execution partner to the CGSO and SVP Product Strategy and Business Development in Minnetonka. The role translates market strategy into actionable plans across Product, Markets, Network, and growth priorities, aligning senior leaders and accelerating decisions.

The position requires deep health plan experience, strong strategic judgment, and the ability to engage with senior leaders to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 10 years of experience and 5 years of leadership experience.
• Significant experience in health care strategy, health plan operations, or payerside leadership.
• Proven ability to operate at the SVP/VP level, influencing without authority and driving work forward.
• Strong strategic planning, organizational, and followthrough capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; advanced PowerPoint and executive storytelling skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and make sound judgments in ambiguous environments.
• Comfortable serving as both a strategic thinker and handson executor.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted strategic advisor and execution partner to the CGSO & SVP Product Strategy and Business Development, supporting enterpriselevel thinking across Product, Markets, Network, and growth priorities and helping translate enterprise growth and product strategy into clear priorities, decisions, and executable plans
• Partner closely with the Executive Assistant to proactively manage priorities, anticipate decision needs, and ensure followthrough
• Act as a trusted thought partner to the CGSO and the SVP Product Strategy and Business Development for key engagements by synthesizing complex information, pressure-testing strategic assumptions, identifying implications and tradeoffs, ensuring decisions are supported by appropriate market, financial, operational, and customer perspectives and framing strategic talking points
• Enable consistent information flow between the CGSO, SVP Product Strategy and Business Development and direct reports (SVPs/VPs), ensuring alignment, clarity, and accountability
• Drive execution of key Product, Markets and growth initiatives by coordinating work across SVPs, VPs, and functional leaders
• Follow up directly with senior leaders to ensure commitments are progressing and decisions are escalated appropriately
• Translate health care strategy, market dynamics, and performance insights into clear action plans
• Serve as a connective tissue between strategy development and operational execution
• Plan and support external strategic partnership meetings in collaboration with SVP Product Strategy and Business Development, Market Presidents, Marketing, Experience and Network leadership
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable workplans with defined objectives, milestones, decision points, accountabilities, dependencies, and measures of success
• Lead high-priority, cross-functional strategic initiatives sponsored by the CGSO and SVP to include developing agendas, facilitating discussions, ensuring clear outcomes, ownership, and next steps; and coordinating internal preparation and postmeeting followup to ensure strategic intent is executed
• Drive initiatives from strategy through execution, proactively identifying barriers, resolving cross-functional dependencies, escalating critical decisions, and maintaining momentum against enterprise commitments
• Support complex, multistakeholder discussions requiring strong health care and payer fluency
• Develop and refine executivelevel materials, that synthesize complex issues into clear strategic choices, recommendations, decisions, risks, and next steps including but not limited to monthly and quarterly business reviews, enterprise updates, and contributions to the annual board strategy deck
• Translate complex strategy, financial performance, and market insights into concise, compelling narratives for senior audiences
• Ensure consistency of messaging across Markets and Products leadership communications
• Strategically plan the CGSO and SVP Product Strategy and Business Development's calendars, conferences, and internal engagements to maximize leadership presence and impact in partnership with their respective Executive Assistants
• Identify key moments where the visibility of the CGSO and/or the SVP Product Strategy and Business Development drives alignment, engagement, or culture
• Continuously improve operating rhythms, meeting effectiveness, and decision clarity across the Markets and Products leadership teams
• Anticipate issues requiring executive attention and proactively develop options, recommendations, and paths to resolution
• Lead confidential, sensitive, or highly ambiguous strategic assignments on behalf of the CGSO and SVP
• Increase executive leverage by ensuring leadership attention is focused on the highest-value strategic decisions and opportunities rather than routine coordination
• Perform other strategic responsibilities as needed to advance enterprise growth, product, and business development priorities

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

SVP/VP influence

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

Medica, a nonprofit health plan, seeks a Strategic Business Initiatives Leader to serve as a senior advisor and execution partner to the CGSO and SVP Product Strategy and Business Development in Minnetonka. The role translates market strategy into actionable plans across Product, Markets, Network, and growth priorities, aligning senior leaders and accelerating decisions.

The position requires deep health plan experience, strong strategic judgment, and the ability to engage with senior leaders to