Senior Manager, Portfolio Strategy & Business Cycle Execution

Hi were Oscar. Were hiring a Senior Manager Portfolio Strategy & Business Cycle Execution to join our Strategy and Operations team.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselvesone that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the role:

The Senior Manager Portfolio Strategy & Business Cycle Execution drives the end-to-end orchestration of portfolio strategy within the enterprise business cycle for multiple markets. Youll ensure that you define sequence and finalize strategic decisions on time enabling successful annual regulatory filings and downstream operational execution (e.g. OE and 1/1 readiness).

You will serve as the central integrator between strategy and execution providing visibility structure and governance across portfolio planning decision-making and cross-functional dependencies.

You will report into the Senior Director Project Management.

Work Location: This position is based in our Tempe AZ office requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in-office work per week. Thursdays are a required in-office day for team meetings and events while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid

Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role is: $134136 - $176053 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits participation in Oscars unlimited vacation program and annual performance bonus.

Responsibilities:

• Own the portfolio strategy intake and intake governance process capturing vetting and aligning all initiatives to enterprise priorities.
• Maintain the single source of truth for portfolio strategy including initiative scope status and ownership
• Lead portfolio planning and prioritization in partnership with local markets and cross-functional business partners balancing enterprise goals regulatory requirements and capacity constraints
• Develop and manage the portfolio roadmap ensuring alignment to filing timelines and broader enterprise milestones
• Establish and manage the decision calendar ensuring you sequence and complete all critical strategy decisions on time.
• Drive on-time decision-making by partnering with leadership and escalating risks to timelines or clarity
• Ensure alignment of all strategy decisions to regulatory filing timelines enterprise planning cycles and downstream execution milestones
• Embed governance through stage gates and leadership forums to close decisions upstream and reduce downstream disruption
• Identify track manage and escalate cross-functional dependencies between strategy filings and operational execution
• Ensure downstream teams (Product Network Finance Tech Ops Compliance etc.) have clear timely inputs to execute
• Proactively mitigate risks related to late decisions fragmented inputs or misaligned timelines
• Partner with execution teams to ensure strategy is actionable sequenced and implementation-ready
• Facilitate feasibility assessments for new initiatives evaluating operational technical and regulatory complexity
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define what it takes to implement (resourcing systems timelines risks)
• Ensure strategic initiatives are grounded in realistic execution plans and constraints
• Support trade-off decisions by providing clear visibility into effort dependencies and impact
• Own and continuously refine the intake and prioritization framework
• Drive clarity on what gets worked when and why ensuring alignment to enterprise strategy and capacity
• Maintain and communicate roadmap updates trade-offs and changes to stakeholders
• Ensure transparency across leadership on portfolio progress risks and decision status
• Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 6 years of experience in program management portfolio management or strategy operations preferably in a complex cross-functional environment
• Experience managing large-scale interdependent initiatives tied to critical timelines (e.g. regulatory product launches or enterprise transformations)
• Strong experience in governance roadmap planning and executive-level communication
• Demonstrated ability to drive decision-making and influence senior stakeholders
• Experience with dependency management across Product Technology Operations and Compliance
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate strategy into execution

Core Competencies

• Strategic Orchestration Connects strategy to execution across a complex portfolio
• Decision Discipline Drives clarity accountability and timeliness in decision-making
• Systems Thinking Understands upstream/downstream impacts and interdependencies
• Execution Rigor Brings structure governance and predictability to delivery
• Influence & Communication Effectively engages stakeholders at all levels

Bonus points:

• Experience working within a rapidly scaling organization
• BA/BS Degree
• Masters in Business Administration or healthcare related field(s) preferred

Travel required:

If outside NY 10%.

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Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts within the base pay set forth above are determined by factors including your relevant skills education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical dental and vision benefits 11 paid holidays paid sick time paid parental leave 401(k) plan participation life and disability insurance and paid wellness time and reimbursements.

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