Chief Growth Officer

Enterprise Growth Leadership

The Chief Growth Officer is accountable for setting and sustaining an enterprise-wide growth strategy that aligns market competitiveness, financial performance, operational readiness, and long-term brand credibility. This leader approaches growth through a portfolio lens, balancing momentum across lines of business while avoiding overconcentration or value eroding decisions.

Set and lead an enterprise-wide growth strategy aligned with revenue, membership, margin, and brand objectives
Dive into growth across all major lines of business with a focus on portfolio balance rather than isolated wins
Apply disciplined judgment to opportunity selection, including declining business that is financially or operationally misaligned
Translate external market dynamics into clear internal growth priorities and guidance

Strategic Market and External Engagement

The Chief Growth Officer serves as a visible and credible senior executive presence in the market, strengthening the organization’s relationships with brokers, consultants, employer customers, and community stakeholders.

• Serve as a senior executive representative with priority broker and consultant partners
  Build and sustain executive level relationships with key employer customers
  Personally engage in a targeted set of strategically important customer and broker relationships
  Represent the organization in the Nebraska business and civic community as an enterprise leader

Sales Strategy Oversight

The Chief Growth Officer provides executive leadership over sales strategy and outcomes while delegating day-to-day sales management to capable leaders. This role is accountable for results and for ensuring sales activity reflects enterprise pricing philosophy, financial discipline, and long-term market credibility, particularly in complex or high value situations.

• Establish enterprise sales strategy and performance expectations across market segments
  Provide executive involvement in complex, high value, or strategically sensitive opportunities
  Partner with Finance and Underwriting on deal evaluation, pricing decisions, and formal deal governance
  Ensure sales execution aligns with enterprise growth priorities and risk tolerance

Product, Pricing, and Go to Market Strategy

The Chief Growth Officer plays a central leadership role in shaping the company’s product portfolio, pricing philosophy, and go-to-market approach. This leader brings clear market and customer insight into decisions related to product investment, repositioning, and exit, ensuring offerings are competitive, executable, and economically sound.

• Contribute to enterprise product portfolio and pricing strategy
  Bring market-backed insight into decisions regarding product investment, redesign, or exit
  Partner closely with Product, Marketing, Finance, and Operations to align strategy and execution
  Ensure go-to-market strategies reflect real customer demand and competitive alternatives

Strategic Account Management and Retention

The Chief Growth Officer is responsible for elevating the organization’s approach to account management, particularly for its most important employer relationships. This includes establishing enterprise standards for segmentation, coverage, and escalation, and ensuring senior leaders are equipped to engage customers as long-term strategic partners.

• Lead the development of an enterprise-wide account management and retention strategy
  Establish standards for account segmentation, coverage models, and escalation paths
  Elevate executive-level engagement with top employer accounts
  Coach senior leaders to shift account management from transactional service to strategic partnership

Enterprise Leadership

As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Chief Growth Officer brings enterprise judgment, composure, and a long-term perspective to leadership discussions and decisions, while maintaining strong external focus and bias toward action.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on growth and market dynamics
  Bring enterprise-level judgment and long-term perspective to executive decision-making
  Model leadership behaviors aligned with organizational values and accountability expectations

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred in business administration or other related degree and 12+ years’ experience overseeing an operations function at a similar type company.
• The ability to drive results, not only for operational areas but for the entire company as part of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
• The ability to work well in a team environment and be capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with other staff, departments, and customers.
• Strategic thinking skills, superior problem-solving abilities, planning, and organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritize work schedule and meet deadlines and effectively delegate responsibilities and work assignments.
• Effective communication skills (both verbal and written).
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for this requirement.
• The ability to meet or exceed the attendance and timeliness requirements of their departments.
• The ability to work well in a team environment and be capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with other staff, departments, and customers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and/or certification with process improvement methodologies.
• Strong understanding and experience of operations in an Agile environment.

Benefits

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your total well-being. This includes:

• Competitive health, dental, and vision plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement savings options
• Employee assistance programs
• Generous paid time off and holidays

Pay

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $180,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This position requires 4+ days per week in the office.