Senior Manager, Program Management, Strategy Execution

About the Team The Regional Portfolio Management Office (RPMO) serves as Kaiser Permanente Northern California's strategic execution partner, working directly with executive leaders to translate strategy into action. Through portfolio management, consulting, performance improvement, and analytics, we help prioritize the highest-value opportunities, implement transformational initiatives, and drive measurable outcomes across quality, consumer experience, affordability, workforce, growth, and community health. Our work spans regional functions and local medical centers, enabling sustainable performance improvement for the people, members, and communities we serve.

The Senior Manager, Portfolio Management & Consulting Services provides strategic and operational leadership for a team that helps shape, prioritize, and execute some of Kaiser Permanente Northern California's most important initiatives. This leader serves as a trusted advisor to executives, guiding portfolio strategy, resource alignment, and organizational transformation efforts while developing a high-performing team of consultants and portfolio management professionals. Through strong partnerships, disciplined execution, and a focus on measurable outcomes, the Senior Manager helps drive sustained performance across quality, consumer experience, affordability, workforce, growth, and community health priorities. As a key thought partner to Northern California executives, this leader helps shape strategic decisions, challenge assumptions, and translate organizational priorities into focused, executable portfolios. The Senior Manager is responsible for advancing portfolio maturity across assigned portfolios by establishing effective approaches to strategic prioritization, governance, operating models, resource alignment, performance monitoring, value realization, and execution. Success in this role is measured by the ability to help leaders turn strategy into sustainable results. The Senior Manager also leads a team of managerial consultants focused on strategic problem-solving, performance improvement, and change management. As a player-coach, this leader balances direct involvement in complex organizational challenges with the ongoing development of a high-performing team known for delivering measurable value, serving as trusted thought partners, and building strong relationships across the organization. The role requires a commitment to both exceptional results and an exceptional employee experience, fostering a culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, authenticity, and work-life balance. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, navigate complexity, align stakeholders around a shared vision, and build organizational capability. They are passionate about developing future leaders, improving how strategy is executed, and ensuring that the organization's highest-priority initiatives deliver meaningful and measurable outcomes. In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this senior manager position is also responsible for managing strategic, enterprise-wide, cross-regional, and/or multi-disciplinary programs to drive exceptional business value for KP; managing and forecasting evolving strategic priorities and providing strategic planning within and across programs to drive and ensure alignment and performance across the organization. This includes monitoring the progress of initiatives across the program and proactively identifying risks and opportunities of strategic business value; raising visibility on critical issues to ensure effective resolution; and identifying, gathering and evaluating data and key performance drivers to understand strategy performance and any gaps. This position is also responsible for managing design plans and supporting the development and execution of change management strategies during key program or organizational changes and transitions;