Healthy Communities Program Manager III

About the role

The Healthy Communities Program Manager III leads and operationalizes Medica’s Healthy Communities strategy across the enterprise. This role is anchored in Population Health and operates across the organization to apply community-informed, evidence-based approaches that improve access, experience, and outcomes for all populations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Medica’s Healthy Communities framework, grounded in community-informed and evidence-based practices.
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert on:
• Community driven population improvement approaches.
• Best practices in addressing variation in access, experience, and outcomes across populations.
• Emerging community, policy, and population health trends.
• Translate enterprise priorities into Healthy Communities focus areas and initiatives.
• Own a portfolio of Healthy Communities initiatives from concept through implementation, evaluation, and sustainment.
• Lead cross-functional execution across Population Health, Quality, Segments, Clinical, Network, Product, Finance, Data & Analytics, HR, Public Affairs, and other partners as appropriate.
• Design and execute initiatives in a manner that is scalable and adaptable across lines of business and markets, recognizing distinct regulatory, operational, and community dynamics across Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Exchange products.
• Partner with senior leadership on prioritization, funding considerations, and execution needed to deliver outcomes.
• Partner closely with the Medica Foundation to align community investment, funding priorities, and execution efforts.
• Collaborate with Public Affairs to ensure external alignment, credibility, and awareness of community initiatives.
• Work with Segments to ensure Healthy Communities efforts are relevant, scalable, and responsive to market-specific needs.
• Partner with HR to support alignment between workforce initiatives and community priorities.
• Act as an integrator across internal and external stakeholders to reduce fragmentation and duplication.
• Define and track outcome measures for Healthy Communities initiatives aligned to approved program goals and execution plans.
• Establish measures that reflect regulatory, contractual, and enterprise priorities, including applicability across Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial, and Exchange lines of business.
• Assess progress and impact at the initiative and portfolio level, using data and insights to support prioritization, course correction, and sustainment decisions.
• Ensure measurement approaches are adaptable to differing market and program requirements, recognizing variation across state Medicaid programs and other lines of business.
• Communicate progress, results, and risks to leadership and cross-functional partners to support accountability and informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in healthcare, population health, public health, community-based work, or a related environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into execution and measurable outcomes.
• Strong collaboration, facilitation, and influence skills across all organizational levels.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Experience working with community organizations, foundations, or public agencies.
• Experience applying population-level data to inform program design and evaluation.
• Familiarity with healthcare delivery, payer operations, or population health models.

Benefits

Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services, and many other benefits to support our employees.

Pay

The full salary grade for this position is $78,700 - $134,900. While the full salary grade is provided, the typical hiring salary range for this role is expected to be between $78,700 - $118,020. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data.

Schedule

This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work onsite, on average, 3 days per week. We are open to candidates located near one of the following office locations: Minnetonka, MN, or Madison, WI.