About Texicare
Founded in 2023 as a mission-driven health affiliate of Texas Mutual, Texicare was created by a group of seasoned healthcare professionals, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Texicare is committed to changing the healthcare landscape by providing small businesses with innovative solutions that increase access to easy-to-use, more affordable, quality health care for Texans and their families. Texicare’s vision is to transform the healthcare ecosystem for the better, helping to create a healthier and happier Texas. Our healthcare plans were designed to be used, to remove barriers to care, to truly make a difference in people’s lives.
We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven individuals to join us in creating a healthier and happier Texas.
About The Role
We are seeking an exceptional leader with a proven track record in sales, underwriting, and product development across a health plan. Collaboration with leadership across Texicare is essential in this role, as a member of the senior leadership team. This person will routinely work in collaboration with our Finance, Actuarial, Strategy, Compliance, Operations, Network, and Clinical teams. Leveraging Texicare’s mission, vision, and values to guide strategy, while managing the implementation of a new Plan’s offering is the balance that must be achieved for success in this role.
Reporting to Texicare’s Chief Executive Officer, the VP, Line of Business must gather perspective from external partners while delivering key results. This person will be responsible for developing, implementing, and managing strategies to achieve financial and membership targets, driving operational excellence and building scalable solutions for health insurance products across the state of Texas.
Location: Austin, TX. Work from Austin HQ once a week. Travel within Texas and occasionally outside of Texas is required.
In This Role, You Will
- Develop and implement sales strategies that result in exceeding our annual membership target
- Develop and implement underwriting strategies that results in exceeding financial targets
- Develop and implement a product strategy that is competitive and compelling to our target customers
- Build key external relationships across the agency, broker, and employer communities
- Build key internal relationships with parent company leaders at Texas Mutual
- Effectively manage vendor relationship across the health plan
- Set strategic direction and goals across the team while measuring results and coaching for performance
To Be Successful In This Role, You Should Have
- In-depth experience and knowledge of the mechanics of a health plan
- An understanding of distribution strategies across the industry
- Experience selling and underwriting in the small group segment, what attracts those buyers, how to assess risk and build the product strategy to correlate
- Experience working with third party vendors to execute contractual agreements while also delivering key results
- Experience collaborating with marketing partners like creative and PR to deliver brand campaigns aligned to strategy and growth objectives
- A demonstrated track record of leading teams, setting direction, and delivering results
- An ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- An ability to balance multiple inputs while making informed decisions
- A demonstrated ability to effectively communicate across key internal and external audiences to highlight progress and challenges to key deliverables
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience required
- Ten (10) years of diversified experience in health plan leadership or other industry-related fields is required
- Master’s degree in a related discipline is preferred
Benefits
- Automatic 4% employer contribution to retirement plan
- 401k plan with 100% match up to 6%
- Flexible time off for vacation, illness, etc.
- Nine paid holidays
- Day one health, Rx, vision, and dental insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Pet coverage and pet Rx discounts
- Free identity theft protection
- Free 2nd medical opinion service
Texicare is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.