Strategy Consultant

The Enterprise Strategy Consultant owns a full engagement module - a coherent problem area within a GuideWell strategy engagement - and runs it autonomously from hypothesis to recommendation. The Associate shapes the module's hypotheses and analytical approach, picks the right methods unprompted, and synthesizes the work into a defensible recommendation that holds up to challenge. Associates also carry the day-to-day relationships with the business-unit stakeholders in their module, and are fluent in a domain - Medicare Advantage, commercial, pharmacy, or similar - to be credible with the subject-matter experts they work alongside. This is the level at which the toolkit becomes judgment: the priority is to be trusted with a whole problem area, and to prepare for Senior Associate, where scope widens to several modules and a small team.

GuideWell is building an in-house Enterprise Strategy team - a strategy and internal-consulting group that works on the company's most important questions - and we are hiring Associates to help form its foundation. As an Associate, you own a full module of an engagement: you frame the hypotheses, decide how the problem gets solved, direct the analysis, and carry it through to a recommendation you can defend to the business. You also own the day-to-day relationship with the stakeholders in your problem area - consulting-caliber ownership and a close-up view of a Fortune 500 health company, without the constant travel.

You will thrive here if you would rather shape the approach than receive it, are comfortable being the person who owns a whole problem area, and want to go deep enough in a domain to be credible with the people who live in it every day.

What makes GuideWell different:

• A not-for-profit, mission-driven company - one of the nation's largest health insurers and a Fortune 500 organization - whose purpose is helping people and communities achieve better health.
• Core Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans in Florida (Florida Blue) and Puerto Rico (Triple-S), with deep ties to government-sponsored health care and the members who rely on it.
• A diversified portfolio that reaches well beyond insurance - including GuideWell Health care delivery (Sanitas Medical Centers, GuideWell Emergency Doctors, and Florida Health Care Plans), GuideWell Source, WebTPA, and Lucet - serving tens of millions of people across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• A policyholder-owned, long-term orientation and a strong balance sheet that let us invest in health-care-defining capabilities rather than chase quarterly results.
• Deep community trust and a genuine focus on impact in everything we do.

Why join the team at this level:

• Own a whole problem, not a slice - a full module you run autonomously, with a recommendation that carries your name on it.
• Shape the thinking, not just the analysis - you set the hypotheses and pick the methods, and you are expected to have a point of view.
• Build durable domain expertise - go deep in Medicare Advantage, commercial, pharmacy, or another domain and become someone the business seeks out.
• Know exactly how to grow - clear, published levels and a competency model show what "great" looks like, all the way to Head of Enterprise Strategy.
• Or use the team as a launchpad into the business: mobility opens at this level, with optional 6-12 month secondments that carry a guaranteed path back, followed by sponsored placement.

If you want to own a real problem area inside a Fortune 500 health company, and you want that work to matter, we would like to meet you.

Key Requirements

Own a Full Engagement Module

• Own a full engagement module - a coherent problem area - autonomously, from framing through to recommendation.
• Set and manage the module workplan, sequencing the analysis and making the trade-offs that keep it on time and on point.
• Direct the Analysts and Senior Analysts contributing to the module, and own the quality of everything that comes out of it.
• Escalate early and precisely when the answer is moving, the data will not support the question, or the scope needs to change.

Shape the Hypotheses and the Analytical Approach

• Frame the hypotheses for the module and choose the right analytical methods unprompted.
• Design analyses that answer the question rather than merely describe the data, and know when a rough cut is enough.
• Challenge the module's own conclusions - look for the disconfirming evidence before someone else finds it.

Synthesize the Module into a Defensible Recommendation

• Build a module-level narrative end to end, moving from findings to a clear, defensible recommendation.
• Make the logic and the assumptions visible, so leaders can see what the recommendation rests on and where it is sensitive.
• Present the module to project leadership and business-unit stakeholders, and hold up under challenge.

Guide Junior Colleagues and Codify How the Team Works

• Guide the junior colleagues working in your module - set direction, review their work, and give direct, timely feedback.
• Codify the methods that worked into reusable tools, templates, and intellectual property for the team.
• Help onboard new hires and pass on the team's standards and working norms.

Own Day-to-Day Stakeholder Relationships and Build Domain Fluency

• Manage the day-to-day relationships with the business-unit stakeholders inside your module, and keep them informed as the answer takes shape.
• Build fluency in a domain - Medicare Advantage, commercial, pharmacy, or similar - deep enough to be credible with its subject-matter experts.
• Partner with finance, data owners, and subject-matter experts to source what the module needs and validate what it concludes.

Qualifications

• 0 - 2 yrs of experience.

• 3+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, corporate development, or a comparable problem-solving role.

• Demonstrated experience owning a coherent problem area or workstream autonomously, from framing through to a recommendation.

• Per the team's leveling map, a Senior Business Analyst from a top-tier firm typically enters here; industry and corporate-development backgrounds are leveled to demonstrated scope rather than title.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree

• Quantitative, analytical, business, or health-related field preferred (e.g., economics, finance, statistics, data or analytics, engineering, or public health); other majors welcome where the analytical toolkit is demonstrated.

Preferred Education

• Master's degree or MBA

• MBA, or a master's degree in a quantitative, analytical, business, or health-related field.

Additional Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to own a full problem area end to end - framing the hypotheses, choosing the methods, and carrying the work through to a recommendation.

• Strong structuring and quantitative skills, including the judgment to know when a directional answer is enough and when precision matters.

• A track record of building a defensible narrative and presenting it to senior stakeholders under challenge.

• The ability to direct and review the work of junior colleagues while remaining accountable for the output.

• Enough domain depth to be credible with subject-matter experts - to ask the right questions and to push back on the answers.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, and comfort in the room with business-unit leadership.

• The ability to manage day-to-day stakeholder relationships, including where views compete.

• Advanced Excel modeling and PowerPoint, and comfort working with imperfect or incomplete data.

• Sound judgment about when to escalate - early and precisely, with a recommended course of action.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a top-tier strategy consultancy or in a corporate strategy group, including leading a workstream or module.

• Health care or insurance experience - payer, provider, pharmacy, or government programs.

• Depth in a specific domain such as Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pharmacy.

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.

• Working knowledge of a data or analytics tool beyond Excel (e.g., SQL, Python, R, Tableau, or Power BI).

• Experience codifying methods into reusable tools, templates, or team intellectual property.

General Physical Demands
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

Physical/Environmental Activities
Must be able to travel to multiple locations for work (i.e. travel to attend meetings, events, conferences). Occasionally

What We Offer:
As a Florida Blue employee, you will be at the heart of GuideWell's vision - to lead the nation in transforming health through compassionate, connected, and technology-enabled care that delivers personalized value and empowered living.

To support your wellbeing, comprehensive benefits are offered. As an employee, you will have access to:

• Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance;
• Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs;
• Leave programs to support personal circumstances;
• Retirement Savings Plan including employer match;
• Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days;
• Additional voluntary benefits available; and
• A comprehensive wellness program

Employee benefits are designed to align with federal and state employment laws. Benefits may vary based on the state in which work is performed. Benefits for intern, part-time and seasonal employees may differ.

To support your financial wellbeing, we offer competitive pay as well as opportunities for incentive or commission compensation. We also conduct regular annual reviews with pay for performance considerations for base pay increases.

Annualized Salary Range: $92,100 - $149,600

Typical Annualized Hiring Range: $92,100 - $115,100

Final pay will be determined with consideration of market competitiveness, internal equity, and the job-related knowledge, skills, training, and experience you bring.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to cultivating a work experience where everyone feels like they belong and can perform at their best in pursuit of our mission. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.