
Your Role
The Healthcare Quality & Affordability (HQA) Project Management Office (PMO) team drives strategic outcomes for the HQA division and executes initiatives including schedule, scope, resource and financial management. The Senior Manager, Project & Program Management will report to the Director, HQA Strategic Planning and Performance. In this role you will provide leadership, oversight and direction of assigned scope within scope of the HQA PMO. 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.
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:
Own delivery of committed business outcomes and benefits realization in partnership with business owners during implementation.
Ensure outcome accountability and assessment with your team during implementation. Document (progress against) outcomes on an ongoing basis. Advise on scope to stop mid-execution if expected benefits can’t be realized.
Build high performing teams, continuously assessing team performance and attracting, retaining and growing the right talent.
Ensure consistent application of PMO standards, methodologies, and tools across all projects, driving execution rigor and quality.
Lead and/or facilitate executive and senior leadership meetings. Drive escalated issues to resolution. Oversee escalated change requests.
Oversee and manage program managers, project managers and analysts in support of project delivery. Grow people management skills in staff who aspire to be people leaders. Support during escalations.
Ensure project teams, including internal and external resources are assembled and work with leads and teams across the enterprise to identify work and resources.
Ensure PMs work across the enterprise to understand dependencies and manage those to support the projects.
Maintain the Portfolio execution roadmap within your assigned scope to ensure all work is aligned to business objectives.
Add new work to the execution roadmap utilizing capacity planning process – align with key leaders on capacity allocation.
Translate complex program status into clear, concise executive-level insights, highlighting decisions, risks, and tradeoffs.
Collaborate across the enterprise to deliver against our portfolio commitments.
Your Knowledge and Experience
Hybrid
This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

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.
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