Program Manager, Consultant - CalPERS
Blue Shield of California
El Dorado Hills, CA · Posted November 4, 2026
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About the job
Your Role
The Select Business Solutions team at Blue Shield of California plays a central role in managing the performance of the Select Markets lines of business ensuring the delivery of high-quality, affordable healthcare services to our members. The CalPERS Program Manager, Consultant will report to the Director of Select Business Solutions. In this role you will lead the ongoing monitoring and management of HMO and PPO trend and operating income performance variances by identifying emerging issues, maintaining initiative and action plan inventories, tracking ownership and key milestones, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and providing regular reporting on progress, risks, and outcomes to ensure accountability and drive performance improvement. Additional responsibilities may include data warehouse analysis and coordination.
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
Monitor and analyze HMO and PPO performance variances, identifying emerging trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement
Maintain a comprehensive inventory of performance variances and associated mitigation initiatives across business and operational functions
Facilitate recurring stakeholder reviews to assess progress, validate priorities, and identify new actions needed to address performance gaps
Track initiative ownership, key deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and target completion dates to ensure accountability
Coordinate with cross-functional business leaders to develop and implement strategies addressing identified variances
Your Knowledge and Experience
Requires a bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
Requires 7 years of prior relevant experience
Requires experience with financial performance metrics, variance analysis, and reporting
Requires experience with cross-functional business operations and healthcare administration
Requires experience with development and maintenance of tracking logs, dashboards, and scorecards
Requires experience with executive reporting and presentation development