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Strategy Analyst

AT GeoBlue
GeoBlue

Strategy Analyst

King of Prussia, PA

We are seeking a Strategy Analyst to join the team! The Strategy Analyst supports the office of strategy management in the development, execution, and communication of a portfolio of strategic change. This key contributor works with executives, senior leaders, functional leaders, and subject matter experts across GeoBlue to forward our ambition across all pillars - Growth, Customer Experience, and People.

Day-to-day, this role assists with the coordination of a strategic portfolio, owns, and undertakes strategic projects (opportunity research, business case development, market analysis, competitive analysis), and contributes to senior company management deliverables.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to, or carry out strategic projects and studies

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  1. Work under the direction of the Strategy leader and other leaders as required to develop strategic projects and studies.
  2. Eg reviews of a market segment, product line or opportunity including market sizing, market dynamics - trends and changes, competitor identification and evaluation, product analysis, sales performance, win/loss reasons, product economics (cost drivers, margins, tenure, acquisition costs etc.), operating model, operational performance, NPS. and customer satisfaction, participation models (regulatory, insurance etc.).
  3. Conduct in-depth financial and operational analysis, identify key insights, and draw conclusions with support from relevant SMEs.
  4. Project work potentially includes:
    • Sources studies of available resources and data (desktop research).
    • Commission market research; develop questions and concepts.
  5. Determine viable pathways to implement new initiatives and delivery roadmaps from MVP to scaled propositions.
  • Internal network, liaison, and relationship development
    1. Work closely with key SMEs at all levels to gather informed insights and offer informed opinions on key hypotheses, insights, or recommendations.
    2. Build and maintain strong working relationships with Product Development, PMO, and Transformation teams to contribute to the pipeline of commercial development.
    3. Influence project execution to build strategic synergies between initiatives.
    4. Build strong connections with Sales, Marketing, and Client Management teams to gather market insights, including establishing a retailer cadence for gathering feedback and an open channel for ad hoc insights.
    5. Contribute to team building as needed (i.e., coordinating trainings, organizing events, helping with recruiting).
  • Identify and source relevant data, and synthesize key information
    1. Source, compile, and track market insights through public data, company sources, and network.
    2. Record and share insights (contribute the insights blog),
    3. Make connections over time to identify trends and make recommendations for product development (new, change, retire etc.).
    • Strategy Communication: Contribute to presentations including:
      1. Management decks for Exco meetings.
      2. Board and stakeholder materials.
      3. Other presentation development, e.g., SLT, Town Hall, and intra-team presentations.
      4. Present outcomes of work to stakeholders.
      5. Create clear executive level presentations to communicate analysis outputs and strategy updates that contribute to and align with broader storyline flows (e.g., overall strategy, prior presentations).
    • Strategic Portfolio Management / Ambition
      1. Collaborate with Finance on ambition development and refinement (e.g., assists with financial modelling, identification, and valuation of opportunities etc.).
      2. Maintain and track a roster / portfolio of strategy projects aligned to the Strategy Committee of the Board cycle.
    • Manage and track key data assets
      1. Maintain market sizing data for GeoBlue markets; both participating and adjacent (i.e., opportunities), including insight from Sales teams and colleagues.
      2. Understand and map internal data sources.
      3. Compile and maintain a catalogue of data sources for use in strategic work, including "live" internal (operational), 3rd party, and one-off studies.
    • Other duties as assigned.

    Essential Skills / Functions:

    • Ability to compile and synthesize datasets and identify and distill major themes and messages.
    • Effective PowerPoint - both slide documents and presentations (able to differentiate between different styles of document, and what is appropriate when, and develop both).
    • Experience business writing: business cases articulation; effective structure.
    • Business case development - authoring, financial modeling, grounding in data, direct and indirect value generation.
    • Market research: survey authoring and analysis. Desk top research and compilation of third-party sources.
    • Excel mastery - pivot tables, data clean up, combining, and grouping. Sourcing, formatting, handling refreshes of recurring data sets.
    • Root cause analysis.
    • Architectural mindset able to identify and recommend actions that enable the achievement of multiple goals.
    • Experience of PMOs and portfolio management including approaches to prioritization.
    • Experience of customer insight programs and ideally NPS including outer loop process to address structural drivers of negative customer experience, and the identification and delivery of positive experiences.
    • Company financials: familiarity with company financial documents, particular operating P&Ls.
    • Experience working in a complex technology environment with multiple integrated applications and orchestrations extending to partners.
    • Grasp of health insurance marketplace dynamics - payors, providers, operating costs, competitors, insurance structures (can anticipate the components of a health insurers P&L, operating capabilities, and market dynamics).

    Requirements:

    • Bachelor's degree required.
    • 5+ years of job-related experience, ideally including mergers and acquisitions exposure.
    • Healthcare experience preferred.
    • Analytically oriented.
    • Strong quantitative and qualitative skills.
    • Strong critical thinking skills.
    • Advanced Excel/spreadsheet skills.
    • Articulate in PowerPoint, including presentation of data.
    • Employee is required to have at minimum an internet speed of 75 Mbps (standard high-speed internet access).

    Working Conditions:

    • Flexibility to work in an office and/or at-home, remote office environment.
    • Schedule flexibility is occasionally necessary in this position. Individual may be required to attend key business/departmental meetings and/or perform certain business critical job functions outside of normal working hours.
    • Physical Demands: Must be able to communicate internally and externally through receiving and responding to auditory and visual methods.

    Competitive base pay starting at $76,518 per year.

    Compensation is based on prior/relevant experience and skill level in a similar role.

    This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

    Client-provided location(s): King of Prussia, PA, USA
    Job ID: geoblue-519850
    Employment Type: Full Time

    Perks and Benefits

    • Health and Wellness

      • FSA With Employer Contribution
      • On-Site Gym
      • Health Insurance
      • Dental Insurance
      • Vision Insurance
      • Short-Term Disability
      • Long-Term Disability
    • Parental Benefits

      • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
      • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Work Flexibility

      • Flexible Work Hours
      • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Office Life and Perks

      • Casual Dress
      • Happy Hours
    • Vacation and Time Off

      • Leave of Absence
      • Paid Holidays
      • Paid Vacation
    • Financial and Retirement

      • Performance Bonus
      • 401(K)
    • Professional Development

      • Promote From Within
      • Shadowing Opportunities
      • Access to Online Courses
      • Lunch and Learns
      • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Diversity and Inclusion

      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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