VP, Office of the CEO

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for.

We're a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration - because success is a team sport. It's our mission to be there in the moments that matter most for our members and employees. Join us in creating a community of connected care, where coordinated, quality service is the norm, and every member feels valued.

The Vice President, Office of the CEO serves as the CEO's senior strategic and operating partner, accountable for integrating enterprise strategy across the organization and driving disciplined execution through a high-performing executive operating model. This leader owns enterprise strategy integration and execution, ensures alignment across the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), and leads the Office of the CEO, including direct leadership of the Chief of Staff role who will focus on operationalizing the CEO's agenda ensuring disciplined execution.

Operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, governance, and enterprise leadership, the VP creates a "high-functioning executive system" that improves decision quality, accelerates outcomes, and protects CEO capacity for the highest-value work. This role acts as a force multiplier-translating strategic intent into measurable enterprise progress through clear priorities, effective governance, and sustained follow-through. Performs other duties as assigned.

Key Accountabilities:

• Enterprise Strategy Integration
  
  
  
  • Partner with the CEO to shape, pressure-test, refine, and operationalize enterprise strategy, elevating concepts into actionable strategic frameworks and decision points
  • Define and maintain enterprise priorities, sequencing, and tradeoffs across business areas to ensure focus and clarity
  • Drive cross-functional strategy integration, ensuring enterprise initiatives align to strategic intent and measurable outcomes
  • Synthesize complex internal and external information into executive-ready insights to support strategy decisions, including market, competitive, policy, and regulatory signals relevant to a nonprofit health plan
  
  
  
  
• Enterprise Execution & Delivery
  
  
  
  • Identify, scope, and drive the highest-value enterprise initiatives, ensuring value realization and sustained momentum
  • Lead complex, cross-functional work requiring senior-level coordination; establish clear ownership, timelines, metrics, dependencies, and risk management
  • Build and run mechanisms to track enterprise commitments and follow-through; hold owners accountable for outcomes and deliverables
  • Proactively remove barriers, escalate risks, and resolve misalignment before CEO intervention is required
  
  
  
  
• Executive Operating Model (Enterprise "Business Operating System")
  
  
  
  • Own and continuously evolve the enterprise operating model, including planning cycles, quarterly operating reviews, enterprise forums, and leadership offsites
  • Define ELT cadence, decision-making norms, and accountability expectations; ensure meetings translate into action via crisp pre-work, agendas, and post-meeting execution
  • Facilitate high-impact ELT discussions to accelerate decisions, clarify tradeoffs, and reduce "decision friction"
  • Establish scalable playbooks and processes that reduce reliance on ad hoc CEO involvement
  
  
  
  
• Board & Governance Alignment
  
  
  
  • Frame enterprise issues, strategic choices, and performance themes for Board and committee engagement, partnering with Corporate Secretary and ELT to ensure the Board agenda is aligned to enterprise strategy and governance best practices
  • Oversee governance processes and ensure follow-through on key decisions, including action tracking and inter-meeting Board communications discipline
  • Partner with CEO, Corporate Secretary, and Board Chair on meeting design, materials readiness, and governance rhythm
  
  
  
  
• Market Positioning & Enterprise Narrative (Strategic Input)
  
  
  
  • Clarify the enterprise value proposition and strategic positioning; provide strategic input to CEO messaging and external narrative
  • Partner closely with CPO and VP, Corporate Communications (content and voice owner) to ensure message alignment with strategy and priorities
  
  
  
  
• Lead the Office of the CEO
  
  
  
  • Set priorities for Office-of-the-CEO work; establish clear role delineation between VP Office of CEO, Chief of Staff, EA support, and other enabling resources
  • Lead, coach, and develop the Chief of Staff, ensuring operating cadence, executive readiness, and enterprise follow-through are executed with quality and consistency
  • Build a high-trust, high-discretion environment; act as a steward of sensitive information with the highest integrity
  
  
  
  

Required Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
• 15+ plus years of progressive experience in enterprise strategy, transformation, management consulting, or senior operating leadership roles including significant cross-functional leadership

Strongly Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Business Acumen
  
  
  
  • Health Plan experience and broad working knowledge
  • Understanding of P&L drivers; operating metric dynamics and overall health plan economics
  
  
  
  
• Enterprise Leadership & Strategic Capability
  
  
  
  • Demonstrated ability to shape strategy and translate it into execution, including defining priorities, sequencing, success measures, and governance
  • Strong business acumen; skilled at evaluating complex tradeoffs across enterprise needs
  • Systems thinking-connects strategy, operations, culture, and external environment into integrated action
  
  
  
  
• Executive Operating Model & Execution Discipline
  
  
  
  • Proven ability to design and run an executive operating rhythm (ELT cadence, planning cycles, operating reviews) and drive follow-through with accountability
  • Exceptional ability to bring clarity to ambiguity; structured problem-solving and crisp synthesis
  
  
  
  
• Influence, Presence, Communication
  
  
  
  • Exceptional executive presence, judgment, and discretion; trusted partner to CEO and credible across ELT and Board environments
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication; distills complex topics into executive-ready narratives, decision memos, and briefing materials
  • High emotional intelligence; navigates organizational dynamics with diplomacy while driving outcomes
  
  
  
  
• Governance & Board Engagement
  
  
  
  • Experience preparing for and engaging with Boards and governance processes; understands the discipline of agenda framing, pre-reads, and decision follow-through
  
  
  
  

This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work onsite at our Minnetonka office, on average, 5 days per week.

The full base pay salary range for this position is $256,600-$384,000. Annual base pay salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and or licensures, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data.

In addition to base compensation, this position is eligible for Medica's Short Term Incentive plan, Long Term Incentive plan and our Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan. Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, executive life insurance, Self-Managed Time Off, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Medica's compensation and benefits are subject to change at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Eligibility to work in the US: Medica does not offer work visa sponsorship for this role. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application. Employment is contingent on verification of identity and eligibility to work in the United States.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer, where all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.