Program Manager Clinical, Principal

Blue Shield of CA; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Principal Program Manager, Clinical to lead behavioral health strategy and programs. You’ll partner with clinical and business teams to advance quality improvement and regulatory initiatives across lines of business.

You will guide a portfolio of projects, drive changes with multiple stakeholders, and help shape integrated care models in a collaborative, results-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or GED with 4 years additional relevant experience or completion of an accredited program.
• Unrestricted CA license (RN, PA, LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, or PsyD) required.
• 10+ years of prior relevant experience in quality programs, health plan ops, or similar.
• Experience across behavioral healthcare from multiple perspectives (vendor, payer, clinical, etc.).
• Ability to drive sustainable change across stakeholders and initiatives.
• Vendor/product development and management experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of work and lead projects with internal partners for continuous quality improvement.
• Support NCQA, regulatory, and mandate programming in behavioral health.
• Collaborate with clinical and business partners to improve member/provider experiences.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Quality improvement

Change management

Strategic program management

Education

Bachelor's degree or GED with 4 years of relevant experience

Tools

Vendor/product development

Job description

Your Role

The Blue Shield Behavioral Health Clinical Market Engagement, Strategy and Programs team works with internal and external business and clinical partners to develop, execute, and evaluate Blue Shield of CA's strategy and ecosystem for behavioral health and addiction medicine. This Principal Program Manager, Clinical role will report to the Director of Behavioral Health Clinical Market Engagement, Strategy and Programs. In this role you will work with cross-functional internal partners support Blue Shield's behavioral health quality and integrated medical/behavioral health initiatives across all lines of business. The role will own a portfolio of work and lead projects with internal partners for continuous quality improvement activities e.g. meeting requirements for NCQA, regulatory/mandate programming, member/provider experience improvement.

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 Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree and completion of an accredited educational program that meets the requirements for the applicable professional license isrequired
• Requires an unrestricted CA license RN, PA, LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, or PsyD
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience including service quality programs and/or service products, health plan operations, or equivalent.
• Requires experience with behavioral healthcare from any combination of perspectives: vendor, payer/plan, MBHO, clinical, provider relations, products, program evaluation, IPA or medical group, hospital, etc.
• Requires experience driving sustainable change across multiple stakeholders focused on continuous quality improvement initiatives & strategies
• Vendor and/or product development and management experience including proposal development, selection, evaluation, marketing and communications is preferred.
• Experience with integrated behavioral/medical health care models and practice considerations is preferred.

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.