Director Portfolio Execution

Our Director Portfolio Execution leads enterprise transformation through a disciplined, strategically aligned portfolio of initiatives that reshape how the organization operates, delivers value, and achieves business outcomes. This role connects strategy to execution by guiding planning, prioritization, governance, and delivery while ensuring initiatives are sequenced for impact, supported by strong change leadership, and embedded into the organization for sustained adoption. The Director partners across business, technology, finance, and operational teams to modernize ways of working, strengthen execution capabilities, improve decision-making, and enable measurable transformation outcomes across the enterprise.

Location: this position is based in a local, hybrid work environment (combination of onsite work at the Meridian, Idaho campus and local work-from-home).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of professionals responsible for executing enterprise transformation portfolios of work, ensuring initiatives are aligned to strategic priorities, sequenced for value, and designed to deliver sustainable business outcomes.

• Partner with leaders to translate priorities into actionable work that advances strategic objectives, organizational capability, and business performance.

• Drive portfolio intake, prioritization, and investment recommendations to align demand with enterprise capacity, strategic value, and readiness for change.

• Champion portfolio management practices that strengthen adoption, accountability, and execution consistency across programs and initiatives.

• Guide the redesign and maturation of portfolio management, execution, and governance capabilities to improve enterprise agility, transparency, and delivery effectiveness.

• Monitor and communicate transformation outcomes through executive reporting, including progress against milestones, value realization, organizational impact, and emerging risks.

• Promote modern delivery approaches, continuous improvement, and data-informed decision-making to support large-scale organizational change.

• Lead and develop teams and partners responsible for transformation execution, fostering a culture of collaboration, adaptability, and results orientation.

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in business, organizational leadership, project/program management, information technology, engineering, or a related field. In lieu of degree, equivalent work experience will also be considered (two years’ relevant work experience is equivalent to one-year college).

• 10/+ years of progressive experience leading complex, cross-functional portfolios, programs, or enterprise transformation initiatives in a matrixed environment, as well as general leadership experience.

• Demonstrated experience driving strategic execution, portfolio governance, and transformation delivery across multiple business and technology functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration, organizational leadership, strategy, or a related discipline.

• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, Prosci, SAFe, Lean, or comparable transformation, portfolio, or change leadership certification.

• Experience leading large-scale organizational change in Agile, hybrid, or Lean delivery environments.

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to lead teams, align diverse stakeholders, and build accountability.

• Strong relationship building, collaboration, and partnership development

• Strong understanding of change leadership and change management best practices.

• Ability to work in a hybrid environment that includes PMP and Agile methodologies and resources.

• Ability to cultivate a continuous improvement and organizational agility mindset.

• Strong strategic and transformation thinking, results orientation.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, executive reporting, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Keys to Success

• Clear alignment between business planning, execution, and delivery results.

• Efficient, standardized, and scalability delivery processes.

• Improved speed, reliability, timeliness, and quality of delivery results.

• Strong executive and stakeholder support and confidence in execution capabilities

As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay range is $153,360 - $230,040. The position is eligible for an annual incentive bonus (variable depending on company and employee performance). The pay range for this position considers a wide range of factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, relevant experience, skills, seniority, performance, shift, travel requirements, internal equity, geography, business or organizational needs, and alignment with market data. At Blue Cross of Idaho, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top range for the position. Compensation decisions are dependent on factors and circumstances at the time of offer.

We offer a robust package of benefits including paid time off, paid holidays, community service and self-care days, medical/dental/vision/pharmacy insurance, 401(k) matching and non-contributory plan, life insurance, short and long-term disability, education reimbursement, employee assistance plan (EAP), adoption assistance program, and paid family leave program.

We will adhere to all relevant state and local laws concerning employee leave benefits, in line with our plans and policies.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.