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Program Manager, Senior

Blue Shield of CA
Long Beach, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/6/2026

Your Role

The Pharmacy Finance Support team supports Pharmacy Strategy and Operations in managing impacts to the Pharmacy portfolio budget, ensuring proper approvals, and validating invoices from strategic vendors prior to payment. The Program Manager, Senior will report to the Manager of Pharmacy Finance Support. In this role, you will lead internal meetings; partner with Pharmacy and other cross-functional leaders and subject matter experts to review the work requests, assign priority, and identify items with associated costs; track internal and external billable work requests, credit and performance guarantee payments; and validate invoices from strategic vendors in accordance with company policies and procedures. This position works closely with the Pharmacy Strategy and Operations team, Pharmacy Finance, Global Business Services, and other external vendor partners.

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

  • Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires at least 5 years of prior relevant experience
  • Health Plan and Pharmacy Operations experience preferred
  • Experience standing up new processes as well as training team members and stakeholders on the new process
  • Demonstrated leadership, project management, and executive level reporting experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills that exhibit a solution-oriented approach
  • Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Office tools including Excel, PowerPoint, and Project; SharePoint; and Lucid 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.


External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.

 

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