Strategic Advisor, Enterprise Strategy

Job Description CuraCor Solutions is seeking a Strategic Advisor with experience in provider strategy and health data analytics to join our growing Care Delivery Services team. In this role, you will help drive healthcare innovation by delivering rigorous market and competitive intelligence, advanced data analytics, and helping shape implementation ready provider strategies that accelerate our care delivery vision. Acting as a trusted advisor to leadership, you will lead and collaborate across the organization to uncover, analyze, and translate complex data, market dynamics, competitive intelligence, and operational realities into clear, actionable strategic recommendations across near-, mid-, and long-term horizons. The ideal candidate is a relationship oriented critical thinker with an agile mindset who is comfortable challenging assumptions, navigating ambiguity, and operating at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and execution in an evolving payvider environment.

About The Care Delivery Services Team:

The Care Delivery Services Team sits within the diversified business arm of CuraCor Solutions, a family of companies that includes Blue Cross NC and works to help make health care better for all. The team is responsible for overseeing strategy co-development and execution as well as alliance management and advisement functions for CuraCor Solutions’ care delivery service assets, including FastMed and Alo | Avance Care. The team was established to help expand consumer access to affordable high-quality care and improve the end-to-end consumer experience by reducing friction across the care journey.

In your role as a Strategic Advisor, you will help support and enable the strategic development and success of the Enterprise’s diversified care delivery service platforms at multiple levels.

If you are ready to join a new and growing division focused on helping the organization achieve its long-term goals by building out a new business area for CuraCor Solutions, then you are the person for this team!

What You’ll Do

Market Intelligence / Data Analytics

• Deliver rigorous market and competitive intelligence , staying current on industry trends, care delivery innovation, and evolving payer‑provider models to inform FastMed and Alo’s strategy and competitive positioning.

• Apply advanced data analytics across financial, operational, payor, and market datasets to generate insights that support sustainable growth, operational performance, and our mission to expand access to affordable, high‑quality care.

• Translate data analytics into strategic insight , leveraging data visualization and storytelling to turn complex findings into clear recommendations, scenario analyses, and decision frameworks that support executive strategy discussions and decision-making.

Strategy / Alliance Management

• Support development of near‑ to mid‑term strategy (1-3 years) for CuraCor’s care delivery assets, partnering closely with long‑term strategy teams to co‑develop and ensure alignment with enterprise‑wide 5+ year strategic visions.

• Guide asset-level strategies for FastMed and Alo | Avance Care , translating market insights, performance trends, and competitive dynamics into clear strategic direction and implementation‑ready roadmaps.

• Support cross‑enterprise strategies that align CuraCor’s care delivery assets with Blue Cross NC to create collective value, accelerate the payvider vision, and support enterprise growth and innovation.

• Contribute to the development of implementation‑ready strategic recommendations that bridge strategy and execution, ensuring clarity on strategic intent, tradeoffs, and paths to impact without owning day‑to‑day operations.

• Partner with long-term strategy and corporate development teams to provide input on the strategic and financial value of additional care delivery partnerships, investments, and transactions.

• Prepare executive-ready presentations and communications to keep CuraCor Solutions leadership informed of care delivery investment performance, progress, risks, and opportunities.

• Co-manage key enabling activities required to support success such as financial and operational monitoring/reporting, legal/compliance, and communications.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required).

• 3+ years of experience in related field.

• In lieu of degree, 5+ years of experience in related field.

Skills:

• 3+ years of experience generating and translating market, competitive, customer, and location intelligence into actionable business insights, including use of tools such as Buxton and similar market planning and analytics platforms.

• 2+ years of experience analyzing large, complex datasets and translating findings into clear strategic recommendations using data analysis and visualization tools such as Excel, Tableau, SQL, and Power BI.

• Strong strategic and financial acumen, with experience developing business cases, financial models, and investment analyses to support executive decision-making.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for executive-ready materials.

Nice to Have

• Experience in business development, strategic planning, market/product development, business operations, health care operations and/or project management with health care providers and/or payors strongly preferred.

What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that’s deeply invested in the community.

• Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs.

• Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance.

• Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education.

• 401k match including an annual company contribution.

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Where You’ll Work
Our Hybrid Flex approach is built on presence with a purpose – giving you flexibility to work remotely with intentional in-person connection – that supports a workplace that’s flexible, connected, and future focused.

In a Hybrid-Flex role, you’ll work in the office at least two days a week for collaboration and connection. In a Remote Flex role, you’ll work virtually, with a few in-office visits each year for meaningful moments that matter.

Whether your role is Hybrid Flex or Remote Flex depends on the nature of the work and distance from our Durham headquarters. We welcome candidates from outside the local area and in any states listed on this job posting. Onsite expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs.

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.

$81,068.00 - $129,708.00

Skills

Business Strategies, Business Strategy Development, Digital Transformation, Identifying Opportunities, Innovation, Innovation Development, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Planning, Strategy Development, Strategy Implementation

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