JOB DESCRIPTION
Your Role

The Office of the CIO team responsible for managing the business of IT in support of Blue Shield’s Chief Information Officer. The Strategic Planning and Performance Principal will report to the Senior Director. In this role you will oversee the financial management of the IT budget, annual and quarterly planning process and be instrumental in both the tactics and strategic financial oversight of all aspects of IT.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for planning and implementation of complex programs spanning across business areas which include encompass multiple projects, initiatives, and where analysis requires evaluation of intangible variance factors
• Ensure strategic direction of program is in line and designs strategies for alignment with goals and objectives within the funding envelope
• Be responsible for facilitating annual strategic planning process and have exquisite stakeholder management experience at all levels of the organization
• Work in conjunction with financial partner’s complete business planning and forecasting
• Manage budget planning as part of the annual budget cycle. Provides budgeting support and coordination with Finance

• Provide human resource capacity and development support and coordination with Human Resources Track progress against goals including metrics and performance tracking

• Track progress against goals including metrics and performance tracking.

• Responsible for management and oversight of a $400M budget in coordination with finance to assist the CIO and IT VPs in strategic financial decisions, trade offs, value dials, risk and opportunity. Partners with IT finance and the business to ensure sound management of priority and RUN spend.

• Ensures strict finance accountability and oversight to ensure IT is on track every month in spends, OpEx and CapEx mix, administrative savings, headcount cap and labor funding as well as outsource mix.

• Problems and issues faced are numerous, and typically undefined where information is difficult to obtain. Conducts extensive investigation, critical thinking to understand root cause of problems.

QUALIFICATIONS
Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience managing a $400M budget

• Experience communicating and influencing executive leadership

• Ability to effectively manage matrix report structure with IT business operations, finance partners and HR business partners

• Experience in flexing seamlessly between tactical and strategic work, ability to hand multiple urgent items at one time with grace and professionalism

• IT, Lean Portfolio Management, Finance experience a plus
  

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 145200.00 to $ 217800.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

ABOUT THE TEAM
Blue Shield of California’s mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that truly serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.

Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area’s top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world’s most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in – join us!

Our Values:

• Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human . We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
• Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

From the earliest days of the pandemic, Blue Shield of California has been unyielding in our commitment to putting the health and safety of our people, our members and our communities first. As a health care company, Blue Shield requires all employees to be up to date with COVID-19 vaccination prior to start date as a condition of employment. Blue Shield will consider requests for medical or religious accommodation to this vaccination requirement prior to your start date.

The definition of "up to date with your COVID-19 vaccine" is when you have received all doses in the primary series and one booster when eligible. If you are unable to be up to date with your COVID-19 vaccine by your start date, your start date will need to be postponed and you will have 30 days to remedy. If you cannot fulfill the requirement nor obtain an accommodation within 30 days, your offer will be rescinded.