Program Manager

Health Plans, Inc.

Program Manager overseeing a portfolio of projects for Health Plans, Inc., a Third Party Administrator. Driving program strategy, governance, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Posted 8/1/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $90,000 - $130,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in strategic program leadership, project management methodologies, and organizational change management, ensuring alignment with business goals and effective resource allocation. Proficient in leveraging data-driven insights for decision-making and fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams to enhance program delivery.

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Project Management CertificationOrganizational Change ManagementData and Analytics LiteracyHealth Insurance/Managed Care ExperienceMS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence Experience

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Hard Skills

Project LeadershipProgram GovernanceResource AllocationProgram Roadmap DevelopmentRisk ManagementMetrics EstablishmentProgram ReportingAgile MethodologyAI-Augmented Project ManagementCross-Functional Impact Analysis

Soft Skills

Influencing Without AuthorityCollaborationAccountabilityInitiativeRelentless Follow-Through

Tools & Technologies

MS ProjectSmartsheetJiraConfluencePlanner

Certifications & Qualifications

Project Management Certification

Industry Keywords

Health InsuranceManaged CareThird-Party AdministrationChange ManagementProgram Delivery

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide strategic program leadership by overseeing governance, prioritization, and resource allocation across multiple project portfolios to ensure alignment with organizational goals, budgets, and schedules.
Identify synergies and interdependencies across projects and business areas by researching, investigating, and conducting deep discovery and analysis to surface connections, manage cross-project risks, and guide teams toward integrated, enterprise-wide solutions.
Act as an architect of the program's delivery approach by mapping how projects interrelate, identifying cross-functional impacts and dependencies, and proactively driving resolution when intersections create conflicts, risks, or competing priorities.
Develop, maintain, and communicate program roadmaps, including program-level plans, schedules, budgets, and documentation that support transparency, alignment, and long-term planning.
Leverage data-driven insights to support decision-making, establish meaningful metrics, and monitor value realization, ensuring the program delivers expected business benefits and supports continuous improvement.
Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and excellence by collaborating with project managers, cross-functional teams, and leaders to improve processes, enhance delivery practices, and support organizational maturity.
Influences without authority, effectively guiding internal teams, external partners, and technical resources to ensure successful delivery across all program initiatives.
Builds strong relationships and navigates organizational dynamics to drive alignment and outcomes.
Champions robust change management practices to support stakeholder readiness, adoption, and sustained use of program outcomes—ensuring the program delivers its intended value and measurable business benefits.
Develops and maintains comprehensive program reporting, including dashboards, status reports, and analytics that provide transparent visibility into progress, risks, and value delivery.
Applies standardized project and program management tools, frameworks, and methodologies in partnership with project managers, project teams, and leadership to ensure consistent execution across the portfolio.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information technology or a related field.
Project management certification, or specialized training by PMI or project methodology (agile, AI-augmented project management, etc.)
Recent experience (within the last 2 years) in health insurance/managed care or third-party administration environments.
Minimum 4 years of hands-on project leadership (IT and/or business) across the full lifecycle.
Experience with MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Planner, or similar PM/BA toolsets.
Demonstrated experience in organizational change management and willingness to vocalize change management concepts and mindset.
Bias for action and a strong sense of ownership; takes initiative, drives decisions to closure, and moves work forward even amid ambiguity.
Relentless follow-through; tracks commitments, escalates and unblocks issues, and ensures cross-functional teams deliver against agreed outcomes and timelines.
Data and analytics literacy to inform decision-making and program outcomes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position.
Health Plans has grown to become an industry-leading TPA by offering customized self-funded benefit plans to employers, combined with superior customer service and investment in the latest administrative and data-mining technology, and reinsurance (stop-loss) security.