Description

SHIFT: Day Job

SCHEDULE: Full-time

Your Talent. Our Vision. At Anthem, Inc., it’s a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which we’re creating greater access to care for our members, greater value for our customers, and greater health for our communities. Join us and together we will drive the future of health care.

This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America's leading health care companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.

Emerging Business Group Clinical Director

(Official Title: Emerging Business Group Director)

About The Team

Anthem Emerging Business Group (EBG) is a new team designed to create new business models and alternative sources of future growth for the enterprise. The EBG team will coordinate with Anthem and its vast array of partners to rapidly translate emerging constituent needs into new assets. EBG will leverage Anthem core competencies and enterprise resources and also enhance/develop distinct partnerships and relationships to innovate market leading solutions.

Role

Responsible for providing clinical expertise to the EBG team to evaluate opportunities and initiatives. Partner with EBG Partnership Development and EBG Commercialization team members to help build and productize new assets for Anthem, customers, and partners. The intent is to rapidly incubate and commercialize new capabilities and offerings to respond to changing constituent needs and diversify sources of future growth for the enterprise. Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

Evaluates emerging assets, innovations and external entities and partners to determine whether opportunities are strategic and of value to Anthem
Offers clinical insight on particular initiatives to ascertain impacts to Anthem members, provider partners and health outcomes
Engages with internal and external clinical leaders to understand efficacy of proposed solutions and realities to deploy in clinical environments
Provides input/feedback into potential innovation hypotheses, assumptions and options for pilots/experiments/trials to analyze opportunity value
Coordinates pilots/experiments/trials with HealthCore, Anthem leaders/associates and external constituents, partners
Identifies and develops opportunities for innovation to increase effectiveness and quality.
Serves as a resource, and consultant, and clinical SME to EBG team and other areas of the company as needed.
Championing breakthrough projects to diversify future sources of growth and transform our operating model to respond to emerging trends and solutions.
Partnering with P&L and functional leaders to understand business strategy and key areas of opportunity.
Exploring internal capabilities, investment/portfolio companies and external partners to assemble potential solutions and quantify possible value, business impact.
Organizing pilots and experiments to evaluate and prove future market viability and interest.
Obtaining resources (people, funding, material, support) to support the business unit information needs and strategic initiatives.
Monitoring, measuring and communicating progress and status of key initiatives to stated milestones implementation schedules.
Developing, monitoring and tracking metrics to track budget and spending.
Extending future capabilities across the enterprise, preparing for eventual transition to target business owners once ready to scale.
Creating and presenting extremely high quality presentations to executive levels, internal and external.
Providing coaching and mentoring to other leaders in the organization on strategic thinking and on projects that deliver high return and high strategic value.

Preferred Locations - Atlanta, Chicago, Indianapolis, New York City, San Francisco or Minneapolis.

Secondary Location: Open to other major Anthem office locations - South Portland, ME; Manchester, NH; Wallingford, CT; New York, NY; Atlanta, GA; Indianapolis, IN; Mason, OH; Louisville, KY; St. Louis, MO; Richmond/Virginia Beach, VA; Waukesha, WI; Los Angeles, CA

Qualifications

Requires a BS/BA degree in a related field; 10 years of business development, innovation, project/program management, partnership/alliance management experience; 3-5 years of leadership/management with business knowledge in multiple disciplines within a Healthcare organization; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Must have previous clinical experience. This may be in the form of nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, behavioral health, or other similar clinical background.
Previous experience in evaluating, launching, or managing innovative clinical programs is highly desired.
Must be a strategic thinker with broad and deep understanding of healthcare from various vantage points required.
Demonstrated analytical skills, sense of curiosity, and effective problem solving.
Ability to work through ambiguity putting structure to broad enterprise initiatives.
Exceptional oral, written, and interpersonal communication, persuasion and negotiation skills required.
Demonstrated ability to motivate, build consensus, and drive change is required.

Anthem, Inc. is ranked as one of America’s Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine and has been named a 2019 Best Employers for Diversity by Forbes. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.antheminc.com. An Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.

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