Program Director - Transformation Exempt; Non-Union

Director, Program (Transformation)

Job Summary
The Program Director is a key leader responsible for supporting the growth of Keck Medicine of USC through the strategic oversight of mergers, acquisitions, and community physician alignment initiatives. This role owns the end-to-end due diligence and integration lifecycle for assigned transactions, ensuring initiatives align with organizational strategy and long-term system goals. The Program Director partners closely with executive leadership, physicians, and cross‑functional teams to evaluate opportunities throughout the deal continuum, design scalable operating models, and deliver successful integrations.

This role requires strong business judgment, payer and value‑based care acumen, and the ability to design community physician alignment models aligned with future‑state needs, ensuring initiatives drive sustainable, long‑term value for the health system.

• Lead and own due diligence, integration planning, and implementation for community physician alignment, M&A, and partnership initiatives that support health system growth.
• Direct multiple concurrent transactions, overseeing diligence and integration planning across clinical, operational, financial, regulatory, and cultural domains to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Establish and govern integration frameworks, operating models, standards, timelines, success metrics, and decision‑making structures for physician alignment and partnership initiatives.
• Own assigned transactions end‑to‑end, serving as the primary liaison for diligence activities, managing data rooms, coordinating site visits, and ensuring timely resolution of diligence requests.
• Develop and lead cross‑functional diligence and integration teams, aligning stakeholders around shared goals and maintaining momentum throughout the transaction lifecycle.
• Prepare and deliver executive‑level reports and presentations, including deal status updates, key findings, risks, and recommendations for senior leadership and subject matter experts.
• Collaborate with system‑wide stakeholders to evaluate opportunities, prioritize targets, and align resources to support enterprise growth and community physician alignment strategies.
• Lead physician‑facing engagement efforts, including strategic discussions with targeted physicians and physician groups to explore affiliation, acquisition, and partnership opportunities.
• Guide community physicians through key decision‑making considerations, including operating model alignment and integration approaches.
• Provide analytical leadership in support of the Transformation Office, including assessing operational, financial, and synergy impacts of diligence findings and integration plans.
• Anticipate future‑state operational, market, and payer contracting needs, and contribute to the design of programs that are efficient, scalable, and aligned with evolving payer and care delivery models.
• Drive continuous improvement by standardizing best practices, identifying efficiencies, and enhancing the physician and partner experience across transactions, while supporting the ongoing development of the Transformation Office's deal management system.
• Develop, refine, and maintain reporting and communication tools to provide transparency into diligence, integration planning, and implementation progress across the deal pipeline.
• Build and scale foundational programs for community physician alignment initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Req Bachelor's Degree in related fields.
• Pref Master's degree.
• Req 5‑7 years Program manager experience managing cross‑functional initiatives with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Req 2‑3 years Experience in collaboration with, or management of physicians and other providers.
• Pref 2‑3 years Experience in healthcare strategy, operations, partnerships, or physician alignment initiatives.
• Req Demonstrated project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and timelines.
• Req Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills to support strategic decision‑making.
• Req Experience coordinating cross‑functional teams across clinical, operational, and…