Program Manager V, Labor Relations

Kaiser Permanente; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena, CA seeks a technical functional leader to drive enterprise-wide programs across regions and disciplines, delivering strategic business value. You will monitor progress, identify risks, and support change management to ensure successful transitions.

You will partner with senior leaders, allocate resources, and align stakeholders across departments and vendors, guiding programs to sustained outcomes in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years working with senior leadership to deliver cross-regional or multi-disciplinary strategic program management.
• 3+ years in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelor's degree + 8+ years in project management or a related field, including 4+ years in program management OR 11+ years in project management with 4+ years in program management.

Responsibilities

• Promotes learning by communicating information and advising to drive projects forward; builds relationships with stakeholders.
• Conducts business-specific projects applying deep subject-area expertise; promotes adherence to procedures and policies.
• Manages large-scale programs with multiple workstreams and regional scope, ensuring value delivery and adjusting in uncertain environments.
• Leads large program teams, coordinating internal and external resources to achieve objectives.
• Proactively monitors and mitigates program risks, issues, and triggers with mitigation plans.
• Ensures adherence to policy and procedures across program activities and stakeholders.
• Builds alignment and engagement with diverse stakeholders, including senior leaders and vendors; communicates risks and decisions.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Cross-regional program mgmt

Stakeholder management

Change management

Risk management

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this technical functional leader is also responsible for managing strategic, enterprise-wide, cross-regional, and/or multi-disciplinary programs to drive exceptional business value for KP; managing evolving strategic priorities and providing strategic planning within and across programs to drive and ensure alignment and performance across the organization. This includes regularly monitoring the progress of initiatives across the program and proactively identifying risks and opportunities of strategic business value; raising visibility on critical issues to ensure effective resolution; and identifying, gathering and evaluating data and key performance drivers to understand strategy performance and any gaps. This position is also responsible for providing design plans and supporting the development and execution of change management strategies during key program or organizational changes and transitions; working in a variety of dynamic situations requiring exceptional consulting, internal influence, conflict management, and resource/team management; proactively conducting external research to identify and implement market leading practices; embracing a can-do strategic approach with sound business acumen; and advising and partnering with senior leaders while operating within a fast-paced environment.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Manages large-scale programs or components with multiple workstreams and strategic business goals across departments, functions, or regions with responsibility and accountability for achieving program outcomes from initiation to close-out in an extended or open ended time frame. Develops, analyzes, and manages highly complex program plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast. Manages and monitors the program financials of large-scale programs. Monitors program performance to ensure programs effectively deliver maximum long term value or benefit to the organization, and makes adjustments as needed in an uncertain environment where scope may be fluid. Leads program activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the program. Drives allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure established program management practices are in place. This role may perform project management duties in addition to program management responsibilities.
• Leads the work of large program teams by monitoring internal and external resources. Leads others in requesting and coordinating internal and/or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and program demands. Communicates a clear vision of program goals and objectives to the team. Delivers performance feedback to team members supervisors.
• Proactively monitors, identifies, and mitigates program risks, issues, and trigger events by developing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving or escalating risks or issues as appropriate.
• Monitors adherence of program activities to policies and procedures by ensuring program plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.
• Ensures the alignment, buy-in, engagement and support of diverse program stakeholders by building and maintaining relationships as well as communicating appropriately with internal customers, third party vendors, senior management, and business leaders; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders based on their level of influence and decision making and ensures all appropriate stakeholders are represented and included. Provides insight to key stakeholders and program sponsors by developing program goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. program change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for program delivery. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering formal presentations, and providing reports to various senior audiences. Engages with senior stakeholders to identify long term value to the organization and define success.
• Reviews vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. Partners with Procurement and/or Legal to develop service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate. Participates in contract negotiations with vendors and reviews program invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years experience working with senior leadership to deliver cross-regional or multi-disciplinary strategic program management.
• Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum eight (8) years experience in project management or a directly related field, including minimum four (4) years program management experience OR Minimum eleven (11) years experience in project management or a directly related field including minimum four (4) years program management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years experience in strategic planning, consulting, and/or development, including helping define strategies and target business benefits or metrics.
• Three (3) years experience working in a unionized environment.
• Four (4) years of experience working with labor relations.
• Four (4) years of experience consulting in a large multi-hospital system.