This role is responsible for supporting Director of HMO Transformation while leading strategy development to enhance the cost differential between the PPO and HMO as well as manage emerging innovation from ideas to concepts. * Important contributor to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance approaches, developing HMO solutions and collaborating closely with stakeholders to ensure positive impact and sustainable results. * Gather and analyze information, formulating, testing hypotheses and developing recommendations for HMO strategies. * Collaborate with enterprise leadership in business optimization for active, planned, and future partnerships. * Partner with key stakeholders across the enterprise to align cross-functional strategies with BCN, finding ways to optimize and enhance the future of BCBSM's HMO. * Helping enterprise partners on ideation, transformational opportunities, and create competitive advantages for the HMO service and products. * Synthesize and translate business inputs into recommended opportunities, enhancing the HMO portfolio suite of services and products. * Identify performance improvement opportunities, driving future strategic initiatives within the HMO ecosystem. * Overall goal is combining a strategic perspective with disciplined financial and member mindset, lead stakeholder collaboration to identify the strategic, operational, organizational, and financial levers that will deliver rapid and dramatic HMO portfolio impact. QUALIFICATIONS * Bachelor's degree in a related field is required. * A minimum of five (5) years of experience in payer and provider strategy or related field is required. * Three (3) to five (5) years management/leadership experience is required. * Excellent problem solving and analytical skills. * Innovative and forward thinking with ability to envision multiple future state scenarios. * Ability to leverage business frameworks to structure nebulous concepts and opportunities. * Strong written and oral communication skills with confidence and ability to interact effectively with senior leaders. * Ability to solve practical problems and deal with moving variables in situations with limited standardization and alignment. * Ability to manage multiple competing priorities. * Project management and organizational skills. * Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. * Ability to effectively lead, coach and develop team members. * Working knowledge of corporate organizational structures, including functional responsibilities.