Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 13 days ago

Program Manager, Consultant - Pharmacy Strategy & Operations

BSC5 open roles

Where
Oakland, CA, United States, CA, United States, Long Beach, CA, United States, El Dorado Hills, CA, United States, Lodi, CA, United States, Rancho Cordova, CA, United States, Redding, CA, United States, San Diego, CA, United States, Woodland Hills, CA, United States
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowProgram Manager, Consultant - Pharmacy Strategy & OperationsBSC · Oakland, CA, United States, CA, United States, Long Beach, CA, United States, El Dorado Hills, CA, United States, Lodi, CA, United States, Rancho Cordova, CA, United States, Redding, CA, United States, San Diego, CA, United States, Woodland Hills, CA, United States

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on BSC's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

8.2% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. BSC postings stay open a median of 4 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.9%1 day
  2. 3.8%3 days
  3. 8.2%7 days
  4. 15.2%14 days
  5. 34.2%30 days
This job: posted 13 days ago

BSC median: 4 days open

The posting

Job Description

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.

Responsibilities

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 the government markets line of business
  • Manage new client implementations by working with clients and service providers to identify onboarding & ongoing requirements and driving stakeholders towards timely delivery
  • Manage the pharmacy member experience by proactively addressing member and client concerns, identifying resolutions or alternative solutions
  • Develop and prepare line of business (LOB) reporting, program status, and other senior level or executive level presentations for 1/1 readiness and other strategic initiatives
  • Support Pharmacy Care Reimagined strategic initiative implementation as appropriate

Qualifications

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. Master’s degree preferred
  • Requires 7 years of prior relevant experience with Pharmacy or health program management and/or consulting
  • Requires a deep understanding of program and resource management, strong business acumen, and team focus
  • Knowledge of Blue Shield of California, Commercial line of business, and/or Individual and Family Plans (IFP) is preferred
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced multidisciplinary environment
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

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.

About Blue Shield of California

As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.

At Blue Shield of California, our mission is to create a healthcare system worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Blue Shield is a U.S. News Best Company to work for, a Deloitte U.S. Best Managed Company and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace. We were recognized by Fair360 as a Top Regional Company, and one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States by Points of Light. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities – join us!

Our Values:

  • Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
  • Human. We strive to listen and communicate effectively, showing empathy by understanding others' perspectives.
  • Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

  • For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
  • Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
  • For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

Please click here for further physical requirement detail.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

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.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against BSC's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on BSC's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    BSC's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

  • 13h ago

    Data Engineer, Principal

    BSC

    Oakland, CA, United States, WA, United States, OH, United States, MO, United States, CA, United States, Long Beach, CA, United States, AZ, United States, CO, United States, FL, United States, GA, United States, MD, United States, MN, United States, NV, United States, OR, United States, El Dorado Hills, CA, United States, Lodi, CA, United States, Rancho Cordova, CA, United States, San Diego, CA, United States, AL, United States, IL, United States, VA, United States, WI, United States, TX, United States, NY, United States

  • 13h ago

    Data Engineer, Senior

    BSC

    Oakland, CA, United States, WA, United States, RI, United States, OH, United States, MO, United States, CA, United States, Long Beach, CA, United States, AZ, United States, CO, United States, FL, United States, GA, United States, MD, United States, MN, United States, NV, United States, OR, United States, El Dorado Hills, CA, United States, Lodi, CA, United States, Rancho Cordova, CA, United States, Redding, CA, United States, San Diego, CA, United States, AL, United States, IL, United States, VA, United States, WI, United States, TX, United States, NY, United States

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.