Program Manager, Consultant - Pharmacy Strategy & Operations
Company: Blue Shield of California
Location: Oakland, CA 94607 (Remote)
Salary: $111,540 - $167,420 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-26
About this role
Your Role
The Pharmacy Strategy and Operations team provides pharmacy benefit management services and strategies to support Blue Shield of California affordability and membership goals. The Program Manager, Consultant will report to the Sr. Manager, Pharmacy Programs. In this role you will support the Commercial and Government Markets lines of business and will provide consultant level support for pharmacy programs.
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:
- Provide overall program leadership, guidance, and manage all aspects of a given program, including requirements gathering, business case creation, and implementation
- Develop resourcing strategies to ensure optimum support for projects and for the day-to-day operational activities
- Review program budget variance and scope change requests, and participate in the budget-resolution process
- Lead cross-functional meetings and foster teamwork; drive escalation and resolution of issues, while promoting collaboration and coordination across broad categories of stakeholders
- Support and coach project managers within the program, while providing technical expertise in planning, execution, and leadership of program, projects, and initiatives
- Lead operational initiatives across the government markets lines of business working directly with product cycle managers, sales, brokers and internal departments to ensure proper implementation and administration of initiatives and timely updates to member and program materials
- Partner with the Account and Sales Pharmacists to coordinate and complete competitive pharmacy request for proposal (RFP) responses for ...