VP Enterprise Strategy & Innovation

The Vice President, Enterprise Strategy & Innovation is a senior enterprise leader within the Office of the CEO, responsible for developing and implementing the company's strategic vision, portfolio direction, and innovation agenda. This role partners closely with the CEO, Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Corporate Development, Finance, and Business Unit leaders to drive sustained value creation and growth.

Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Strategy:
•    Lead the annual strategic planning process, developing near-term focuses and a 3–5 year enterprise strategic plan in partnership with the CEO and ELT
•    Define the company's "where to play / how to win" choices, identifying key markets, customers, and competitive advantages
•    Develop and maintain a portfolio strategy and long-range growth thesis, partnering with Finance to align strategic ambition with financial guardrails and capital allocation priorities
•    Conduct scenario planning, structural risk assessments, and competitor analysis to inform strategic decisions
•    Prepare Board-level strategy materials and strategic narrative, ensuring clear communication of the company's vision and goals
•    Accountable for both shaping strategy and tracking execution, value realization, and sustained enterprise impact.
Business Unit Strategy Architecture:
•    Establish and govern a consistent strategic planning framework across business units, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and financial expectations
•    Support strategic planning and business orientation to drive near-term performance results and long-term growth
•    Guide and pressure-test 2–3-year Business Unit (BU) strategies, identifying cross-BU growth opportunities and synergies
•    Ensure BU plans align to enterprise priorities and financial expectations, surfacing structural and capability gaps as needed
Innovation Leadership:
•    Define and execute the enterprise innovation thesis, aligned to the company's strategic vision and goals
•    Oversee the innovation portfolio, including core, adjacent, and disruptive initiatives, and establish governance and stage-gate discipline
•    Align innovation investments with the capital allocation framework, ensuring strategic alignment and commercial viability
•    Build and maintain an external partnership ecosystem to support innovation efforts, as needed
•    A successful innovation approach will include measurable business, operating model, and growth outcomes
Enterprise Model Stewardship:
•    Continuously assess the competitiveness and scalability of the company's operating model, identifying areas for improvement and optimization
•    Partner with the transformation team to identify structural risks and future-state requirements, anticipating organizational friction and proposing design solutions
•    Drive organizational transformation and operating model evolution, ensuring alignment with the strategic plan and innovation agenda

Key Requirements:
•    Bachelor's degree or equivalent additional work experience
•    10+ years of experience in strategy, innovation, or a related field, with a proven track record of driving growth and transformation
•    Strong understanding of business strategy, innovation, and organizational design
•    Strong understanding and experience within healthcare 
•    Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
•    Ability to think strategically and navigate complexity
•    Strong change management skills

Preferred:
•    MBA 
•    Experience working in a large, complex organization
•    Familiarity with design thinking, agile methodologies, and innovation best practices
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience with data analysis and financial modeling

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 thrive in our Be Well, Work Well, GuideWell culture where being well as an individual, and working well as a team, are both important in serving our members and communities.

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.

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.