Delivery Lead, Portfolio & Execution Excellence

Zelis Healthcare, LLC; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Zelis Healthcare, LLC is seeking a Delivery Lead for the Price Optimization product area. You will own delivery health across initiatives, surface risks, and align product, technology, and operations on priorities.

This is a portfolio-level role, not a team facilitator, partnering with product management and engineering leadership to ensure work is done in the right sequence with the right quality. Based in the US with a hybrid work approach and multiple offices, you will work closely with

Qualifications

• 8+ years in program management, delivery operations, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery status across active initiatives within the product area.
• Maintain a clear view of in-flight work, risks, and needed leadership attention.
• Prepare and facilitate delivery status reviews with senior stakeholders.
• Ensure commitments are realistic and visible when at risk.
• Establish a delivery reporting cadence for leadership insight.
• Partner with product managers to prioritize the initiative portfolio.
• Work with technology leads to understand capacity and dependencies.
• Serve as the connective tissue between product intent and engineering execution.
• Engage cross-functional stakeholders to align expectations and progress.
• Escalate risks with context and recommended paths forward.
• Apply PDLC standards at intake to reduce late-stage churn.
• Identify intake quality patterns and resolve them upstream.
• Monitor initiative readiness and coordinate delivery planning cycles.
• Flag intake gaps before disruptions.
• Identify process gaps and improve delivery model.
• Build and maintain delivery dashboards in Jira and other tools.
• Define standards for tracking, reporting, escalation.
• Champion data quality in Jira for trustworthy reporting.
• Identify and implement AI tools to reduce manual overhead.

Skills

Program management

Delivery operations

Portfolio management

AI tools

Jira Confluence

SDLC Agile

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Master's degree (substitution)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jira Product Discovery

Job description

Zelis Healthcare, LLC is seeking a Delivery Lead for the Price Optimization product area. You will own delivery health across initiatives, surface risks, and align product, technology, and operations on priorities.

This is a portfolio-level role, not a team facilitator, partnering with product management and engineering leadership to ensure work is done in the right sequence with the right quality. Based in the US with a hybrid work approach and multiple offices, you will work closely with