Program Manager, Principal

Your Role

The Blue Shield Commercial Behavioral Health team works with internal and external business and clinical partners to develop, execute, and evaluate Blue Shield of CA's strategy for behavioral health and addiction medicine, which we refer to as "Behavioral Health, Re-Imagined." This Principal Program Manager role will report to the Director of Behavioral Health, Commercial Lines of Business. In this role you will work with cross-functional partners to drive development, execution, and evaluation for an industry-leading portfolio of clinical and prevention services.

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 10 years of prior relevant experience
• Requires experience with behavioral healthcare from any combination of perspectives: vendor, plan, MBHO, clinical, provider relations, program evaluation, etc.
• Requires experience driving sustainable change across multiple stakeholders
• Requires vendor and/or product development and management experience including proposal development, selection, evaluation, marketing and communications.
• Desired: Mental health clinical license and/or direct clinical care experience desired but not required.

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