Communications Manager - Provider Engagement

Use Your Strengths at Wellmark as a Communications Manager! About the opportunity: As a Communications Manager on the Provider Relations & Engagement team, you will help develop and curate provider messaging and educational content, integrate data, and present information on Wellmark strategies that support and reinforce Wellmark’s vision to Make Health Care Better. You will do this by closely partnering with Wellmark Agile product teams delivering initiatives, leaders and the Corporate Communications team to strategize, write, design and expertly communicate in a way that educates, influences and engages our network of providers. You will proactively lead project communication planning and execution to support the delivery of division initiatives. You will serve as a guest star on divisional Agile product teams to influence timelines and rollout of key provider impact initiatives. This role is about delivering on the marketing and design of communications; and proactively partnering to understand key messaging and corporate narratives around certain topics to ensure alignment with the broader organizational message. You’ll test and refine communication tactics to optimize channels and message effectiveness. While this is a highly collaborative role, you will independently drive this work through setting and driving timelines, making decisions, and effectively executing and prioritizing work in accordance with Provider Relations & Engagement strategy. About you: You are innately creative and love the challenge of taking complex health care information and making it consumable and engaging. You are a skilled consultant and a self-starter who possesses expertise in creating communication that ‘tells the story’ and enhances education and engagement. You do this by leaning into your data visualization and content presentation skills. As a naturally inquisitive person, you thrive on building relationships and partnering across multiple teams to learn new subject matter so you can proactively develop comprehensive content and materials. You welcome and seek feedback to assess the effectiveness of communication programs. You are organized and can effectively prioritize to proactively complete initiative deadlines and goals, sometimes with limited information or roadblocks. This doesn’t faze you – you effectively drive work forward through active consultation and partnerships, tactfully influencing others to act to reach a common goal. This position will work a hybrid schedule of at least 3 days (Tues-Thurs) in Wellmark’s Des Moines office, with two days (Mon/Fri) remote option.