Director Strategic Initiatives

Location

This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

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Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless accommodation is granted as required by law.

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How you will make an impact

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• Annual Business Planning: Lead and coordinate planning cycles, including capital readiness activities, business planning deliverables, and cross-functional inputs needed to support senior leadership decision-making.  
• Conduct in-depth strategic research.  
• Operational Coordination: Support executive-level planning and coordination, including leadership engagements, travel agendas, operating rhythms, meeting preparation, and follow-up actions.  
• Office of the COO Partnership: Serve as a central partner to the Office of the COO, ensuring alignment across leadership priorities, governance routines, communications, and operational execution.  
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with a companion director role focused on culture, communications, and talent strategy to ensure cohesive execution across strategy, people, planning, and engagement priorities.  
• Participates in optimizing strategic initiatives and planning through challenges to cost/benefit investments that involve significant monetary investments and that support key strategic direction to the SBU.  
• Analyzes, researches and develops complex materials and documents relating to health issues.  
• Prepares white papers on select healthcare topics including presentation support materials such as graphic presentations and talk points for executive officers.  
• Serves as project manager for special projects as directed by executive management.  
• Works with Corporate Strategic Planning to ensure that the SBU is appropriately coordinated with the corporate strategies.  
• Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, and evaluate performance of direct reports.

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Minimum requirements

Requires a BA/BS degree and a minimum of 10 years of experience including 5 years of project management experience and 5 years of related experience as a health analyst or health staffer in the legislative community; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

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Preferred skills, capabilities and experiences

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• Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives or operating in a highly visible strategy, business planning, operations, or Chief of Staff-style capacity is strongly preferred.  
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders and influence across functions without direct authority is preferred.  
• Proven ability to synthesize complex data, operational performance insights, and strategic priorities into clear, compelling narratives and deliverables is preferred.  
• Experience managing business planning cycles, performance routines, governance forums is preferred.  
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities, stakeholders, and timelines is preferred.  
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with ambiguity, visibility, and evolving leadership priorities is preferred.  
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution and attention to detail is preferred.  
• Master’s degree preferred.