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WPS Health Solutions is a leading not-for-profit health insurer and federal government contractor headquartered in Wisconsin. WPS offers health insurance plans for individuals, families, seniors, and group health plans for small to large businesses. We process claims and provide customer support for beneficiaries of the Medicare program and manage benefits for millions of active-duty and retired military personnel across the U.S. and abroad. WPS Health Solutions has been making healthcare easier for the people we serve for more than 75 years. Proud to be military and veteran ready.
Culture Drives Our Success
WPS’ Culture is where the great work and innovations of our people are seen, fueled, and rewarded. We accomplish this by creating an inclusive and empowering employee experience. We recognize the benefits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as an investment in our workforce—both current and future—to effectively seek, leverage, and include diverse perspectives that fuel agility and innovation on high-performing teams. This results in people bringing their authentic selves to work every day in an organization that successfully adapts to business changes and new opportunities.
From 2021 to 2024, WPS Health Solutions was recognized for several awards:
- Madison, Wisconsin’s Top Workplaces
- USA Top Workplaces and the cultural excellence awards for Remote Work and Work-Life Flexibility
- Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces® with the further honor of Achievers “Elite 8” winner in the category of Culture Alignment
- DAV Patriot Employer
- VETS Indexes 4 Star Employer
- BBB Torch Award for Ethics from Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin
Role Snapshot
Our Principal Enterprise Strategist is responsible for providing market-backed, analytical research for senior corporate decision-makers on emerging and future-focused healthcare sector trends. You will facilitate dialogue with executive leadership to inform and shape WPS Health Solutions’ strategy development. Provide business related support, strategic analytics, and development of executive presentations. Projects will vary but may include evaluating and developing proposals for new industry initiatives, identifying changing industry dynamics, upcoming trends. You will evaluate business opportunities for both for strategic impact, building business cases to justify investments.
Core components of this opportunity include the ability to:
- Provide executive guidance to WPS’ Chief Growth Officer, and other executives, driving the company’s strategic and annual planning processes.
- Facilitate and assist in driving special projects and strategic initiative development throughout the organization.
- Establish project goals, milestones and procedures, define roles and responsibilities on projects, acquire project resources, coordinate all projects, monitor project progress to plan, manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Analyze existing, macro and emerging healthcare regional and national trends and scenarios, technologies and industry disruptors and derive implications for our business strategies.
- Research subjects could include but are not limited to new sector mergers and acquisitions, new disruptors in the field, network models, innovative payment models, horizontal and vertical integrations of existing and emerging competitors, new and emerging technologies that improve care or reduce health insurer costs, best practices in specific aspects of care delivery, and leading companies that develop new and emerging technologies or care delivery best practices.
- Collaborate with Corporate Market Intelligence team, Corporate Development and other internal stakeholders and sources of data to research and find actionable insights.
- Develop a broad external network and build relationships with healthcare industry thought leaders to gain insights into federal health, healthcare delivery, health technology, clinical and pharmaceutical developments, population health, and insurance market structures.
How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:
- Are a highly motivated and outgoing critical thinker.
- Can foster trusting relationships and cultivate partnerships across the organization.
- Enjoy working in a goal-oriented and self-directed environment.
- Have a high degree of executive presence, emotional intelligence, and intellectual curiosity – with the ability to thrive in ambiguity.
What will I gain from this role?
- The opportunity to negotiate and collaborate with others of different skillsets, backgrounds, and levels within the organization to influence change.
- The ability to communicate across all levels of an organization and lead groups, conduct meetings, and facilitate team workshops.
- Experience working in an environment that serves our nation’s military, veterans, Guard and Reserves, and Medicare beneficiaries.
- Working in a continuous performance feedback environment.
- Experience working in an Agile environment to help drive high-priority work.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Business-related concentration
- 7 or more years of experience leading enterprise strategies in healthcare as a management consultant, strategy consultant, business development professional, marketing analyst and/ or strategic planning analyst with demonstrated career progression and a deep understanding of the Healthcare business and operating models.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to forge strategic partnerships in the healthcare arena.
- A strong understanding of Business Development frameworks and processes in a healthcare environment.
Salary Range: $125K-$175K
The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Remote Work Requirements
- High speed cable or fiber internet
- Minimum of 10 Mbps downstream and at least 1 Mbps upstream internet connection (can be checked at https://speedtest.net)
- Please review Remote Worker FAQs for additional information
Work Location
We are a remote-first organization and offer remote work in the following approved states:
Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
Benefits
- Remote and hybrid work options available
- Performance bonus and/or merit increase opportunities
- 401(k) with dollar-per-dollar match up to 6% of salary (100% vested immediately)
- Competitive paid time off
- Health insurance, dental insurance, and telehealth services start DAY 1
- Employee Resource Groups
- Professional and Leadership Development Programs
- Review additional benefits: (https://www.wpshealthsolutions.com/careers/fulltime_benefits.shtml)
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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
