Strategic Contingent Workforce Lead

Blue Shield of California

California

Hybrid

USD 149,000 - 223,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Blue Shield of California is seeking a Principal, Contingent Workforce Management to lead strategy, governance, and oversight for the enterprise contingent workforce across the Ascendiun Family. You will own the design and implementation of a scalable program, including a system like VNDLY, and partner with Finance, HR, and IT to drive workforce planning and cost efficiency.

The role requires extensive cross-functional collaboration, executive communication, and change management skills to align

Qualifications

Requires a bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience in workforce planning, human capital planning, business planning, contingent workforce management, procurement/vendor management, HR operations, finance partnership, or a related field.
Requires the ability to operate autonomously with limited oversight and manage complex, ambiguous, cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

Advise management on the design, implementation, and ongoing effectiveness of an enterprise contingent workforce management program, including governance, controls, decision rights, policies, business and financial effectiveness, and leadership reporting.
Serve as the product owner for the contingent workforce management technical system solution (e.g., VNDLY), leading the design, build, testing, implementation and ongoing improvement in partnership with business technology and vendor stakeholders.
Set enterprise standards with Global Business Services, Finance, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, People Analytics and Reporting, and business leaders for how contingent workforce requests are reviewed, approved, tracked, and evaluated against workforce plans, financial plans, risks, and business priorities.
Embed contingent workforce planning into enterprise human capital planning routines, ensuring leaders have a complete view of employees, temporary employees, consultants, contractors, statement-of-work resources, and business process outsourcing resources when making workforce, investment, and operating model decisions.
Monitor enterprise contingent workforce utilization, mix, tenure, current and forecasted costs, criticality, supplier dependency, policy adherence, and risk indicators; translate findings into recommendations that improve cost control, workforce design, compliance, supplier strategy, and operational effectiveness.
Develop and maintain enterprise reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and decision tools that measure contingent workforce effectiveness, value, risk, process health, adoption, and alignment to business priorities.
Lead enterprise review routines to identify long-term, high-cost, high-risk, or business-critical contingent work that may be appropriate for conversion to employee or temporary employee roles, in partnership with HR Business Partners, Finance, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders.
Establish repeatable enterprise operating routines, documentation, training, and stakeholder communications that improve process consistency, accountability, compliance awareness, and end-user experience.