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…