You could be the one who changes everything for our 26 million members. Centene is transforming the health of our communities, one person at a time. As a diversified, national organization, you’ll have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

Position Purpose: Responsible for the creation and execution of strategic plan, based upon competitive and product research, as well as the overall goals of the organization, including individual state initiatives as well as broad, national strategic efforts.

Support the product team’s focus on offering quality, competitive product solutions for growth and retention of our marketplace members. Lead the annual Product Development Life Cycle for the Commercial Marketplace products in all states, working as part of a cross-functional effort to deliver on business objectives. Manage a staff who are responsible for the completion of product design, competitive intelligence, pricing and demographic analysis of our customers and products.

This is a remote position.

Job Description:

• Synthesize competitive landscape analysis and market assessments to inform market expansion strategies that capitalize on market trends, customer needs, and competitive positioning.
• Foster relationships with shared service partners and markets and assist in executing business strategies.
• Develops new state and new county expansion market recommendations
• Provides support for financial, sales, and operational reporting and analysis.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with shared service partners and markets to implement business strategies
• Analyze competitive and consumer landscape using public and proprietary sources of quantitative and qualitative data to identify and understand emerging trends and business opportunities, e.g., membership trend data, regulatory and financial filings, consumer research.
• Synthesize data of multiple types (quantitative and qualitative) and sources to produce consumer and market insights to drive expansion strategy development
• Responsible for keeping abreast of business needs and issues related to the success of the product based on regulatory or policy changes, contract changes, industry trends and/or corporate goals.

Position Responsibilities:
Support the strategic and business planning process and leads larger scale, cross-functional initiatives that are intended to deliver on annual business and strategic plans.
Supports planning and prioritization of initiatives as part of the strategic and business planning process, and ensures that initiatives are executed timely and well.
Collaborate with finance and analytic teams to develop cost/benefit analyses, support business case development for proposed initiatives to ensure adequate assessment of opportunities, risks and return on investment, and project budgetary information.
Integrate multiple project plans to create a cohesive plan and/or program with identifiable critical path. Task dependencies, project inter-relationships and major milestones, and manages the project plans, schedules and resources, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters.
Lead and review post-implementation project reviews to close project and to address post-project issues, concerns, and improvement areas.
Responsible for keeping abreast of business needs and issues related to the success of the Medicare product based on regulatory or policy changes, contract changes, industry trends and/or corporate goals.
Support the preparation of communications and presentations to all levels of the organization as well as to external audiences as appropriate, to socialize product goals, communicate progress, identify and quantify potentials risks, and track performance.

Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. 7+ years of working experience. Experience in Product Development and Product Management, including tenured experience with similar, or assigned product(s) preferred. Extensive experience in applicable or similar lines of business preferred. Knowledge of health care, general insurance, insurance operations, sales operations, business analysis, key performance indicators, and portfolio management highly preferred. Healthcare industry experience preferred.

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package: Flexible work solutions including remote options, hybrid work schedules and dress flexibility, Competitive pay, Paid time off including holidays, Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) and stock purchase plans, Tuition reimbursement and best-in-class training and development.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.