AVP, Strategy Advancement and Decision Quality

Serve as an independent challenge and alignment function to improve the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of enterprise and market-level decision making.

Evaluate strategic priorities, assumptions, and growth initiatives to ensure alignment with enterprise objectives and market realities.

Advance organizational decision-making capabilities through improved frameworks, governance mechanisms, and decision disciplines.

Serve as Secretary of all Bid Decision Forums, maintaining the official record of decisions, assumptions, deliberations, votes, and action items while ensuring adherence to governance standards and established decision-making protocols.

Support Bid Decision Forum Chairs in the execution of governance responsibilities, including agenda development, decision documentation, issue escalation, and communication of outcomes.

Promote a culture of rigorous analysis, constructive challenge, accountability, and disciplined decision making across business functions.

Act as a trusted advisor to executive leaders on significant strategic, operational, and market-related decisions.

Facilitate alignment across Finance, Markets, Provider Strategy, and Growth Strategy on priorities, assumptions, and key decisions.

Identify strategic interdependencies, unintended consequences, and areas of organizational misalignment.

Support enterprise governance and decision forums by ensuring discussions are informed by objective analysis and strategic context.

Drive greater transparency, consistency, and accountability in strategic decision-making processes.

Lead, coach, and develop team members while fostering a culture of strategic thinking, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Influence senior leaders and stakeholders without direct authority to drive alignment and improve decision quality.

Build strong partnerships across business functions to advance organizational effectiveness and business outcomes.

Represent the function in enterprise governance, bid, and strategic leadership forums.

This role is expected to:

Shape enterprise and market-level decisions through independent challenge, strategic analysis, governance leadership, and cross-functional influence.

Recommend changes to assumptions, priorities, strategies, and decision approaches when warranted by analysis or changing market conditions.

Establish and enhance decision-making frameworks, governance mechanisms, and strategic review processes.

Serve as Secretary of enterprise Bid Decision Forums, helping ensure decision integrity, accountability, and institutional continuity.

Escalate significant risks, strategic tradeoffs, and organizational misalignments to executive leadership as appropriate.

Serve as an objective voice that strengthens organizational decision quality without assuming ownership of functional operations, financial planning, forecasting, or reporting.

The Associate Vice President will partner closely with:

Finance leadership

Individual Medicare Advantage leadership

Market Presidents and Market Leadership Teams

Growth Strategy leadership

Provider Strategy and Network leaders

Product and Pricing leaders

Enterprise Strategy and Governance leaders

Bid Governance Forums and executive decision-making bodies

Executive Leadership Team members supporting enterprise strategy and growth

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