Blue Shield of California

Strategic Account Manager - Stellarus, Principal

Blue Shield of California  •  Oakland, CA (Onsite)  •  8 days ago
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Job Description

Your Role

The Sales and Accounts Management team is responsible for ensuring Stellarus’ customers achieve meaningful, sustained value from the platform and experience a high level of trust, partnership, and satisfaction. The Strategic Account Manager - Stellarus, Principal is a senior individual contributor role responsible for managing and growing a portfolio of strategic customer accounts that are important to Stellarus growth and customer outcomes, but do not carry the same enterprise level risk or visibility as flagship accounts.

In this role, you will serve as the primary account owner for assigned strategic customers, developing account strategies, driving value realization and solution adoption, and partnering across Product, Technology, and Operations teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. You will engage regularly with senior leaders within customer organizations and operate with a high degree of independence, while escalating the most complex, high risk, or enterprise impacting issues to senior account leadership.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Strategic Account Ownership

  • Own the day to day and long term success of a portfolio of strategic customer accounts
  • Develop and execute account plans aligned to customer goals and Stellarus’ broader strategic priorities
  • Maintain accountability for revenue renewal, recapture, and growth; customer satisfaction; retention; and delivery of agreed outcomes

Customer Relationship & Senior Leader Engagement

  • Build and nurture trusted relationships with senior and executive level stakeholders within customer organizations
  • Lead regular business reviews and planning discussions, communicating progress, insights, and next step priorities
  • Escalate complex or high risk situations to senior account leadership when appropriate

Customer Value Realization & Solution Adoption

  • Ensure customers achieve measurable value from Stellarus solutions
  • Develop a strong understanding of customer workflows, challenges, and operational priorities
  • Partner with Customer Experience, Product, Technology, Clinical, and Operations teams to guide solution adoption and continuous improvement
  • Proactively identify opportunities to optimize customer outcomes or expand solution usage

Commercial Partnership & Retention Support

  • Support commercial activities for assigned accounts, including renewals and expansions, in partnership with Sales, Legal, and Finance
  • Provide account insights, value realization evidence, and relationship context to support renewal discussions
  • Surface growth opportunities aligned to customer needs while maintaining focus on trust and long term partnership health

CrossFunctional Coordination & Customer Advocacy

  • Serve as the voice of the customer for assigned accounts, translating needs and insights into actionable guidance for internal teams
  • Support prioritization discussions for features, enhancements, and delivery sequencing related to assigned accounts
  • Monitor account health, risks, and dependencies; coordinate resolution across teams

Governance, Planning & Change Support

  • Participate in governance forums, integration planning, and roadmap discussions for assigned accounts
  • Support change management efforts related to new deployments, enhancements, or workflow changes
  • Communicate value and impact clearly to technical, operational, and executive audiences

Your Knowledge and Experience 

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires 10 years of experience in customer success, strategic account management, healthcare consulting, or related roles within:
    • A health plan or payer organization
    • A healthcare or enterprise technology company
    • Another large, complex, regulated enterprise
  • Requires proven experience building trusted relationships with senior leaders and decision makers
  • Requires strong understanding of health plan or enterprise business operations
  • Requires experience working cross functionally with Product and Technology teams
  • Requires strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
Blue Shield of California

About Blue Shield of California

Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. The health plan is a tax paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with nearly 6 million members, over 7,500 employees and more than $25 billion in annual revenue.

Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $60 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last three years to have an impact on California communities.

For more news about Blue Shield of California, please visit news.blueshieldca.com.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Oakland, California
Year Founded
1939
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