Lead, Project Manager – Enterprise Productivity
Humana
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $126,300 - $173,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead end-to-end delivery of a large, multi-year productivity and labor optimization program.
- Establish and maintain integrated program plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery rhythms across multiple teams and project managers.
- Serve as the central point of coordination to prevent siloed execution and ensure alignment across segments, vendors, and operating models.
- Drive clarity and structure in a dynamic environment where scope, schedule, and budget may continue to evolve.
- Manage program schedule, budget and any changes to scope.
- Deliver executive-level presentations that frame data-based challenges, opportunities, benefits realization, and progress towards the strategic roadmap.
- Facilitate technology implementation supported by a thorough understanding of portfolio, product, program, project and agile delivery models.
- Implement and operate a central project governance model, including escalation paths, decision frameworks, and issue resolution.
- Proactively identify scope, schedule, resource, financial, and change risks; develop mitigation strategies and surface trade-offs early to leadership.
- Ensure consistent application of project management standards, reporting, and controls across all teams.
- Track progress against productivity targets and key milestones, highlighting gaps and recommended corrective actions.
- Coordinate delivery activities tied to vendor strategies, including phased rollouts by segment.
- Partner with Procurement and Operations leaders to align transition plans with rate cards, MSAs, vendor consolidation strategies, and evolving operating models.
- Support complex vendor migrations, SOW conversions, and potential FTE conversions where applicable.
- Act as a trusted partner to executive sponsors and senior leaders, providing clear, concise updates on progress, risks, and decisions required.
- Develop and execute communication strategies that balance urgency with accuracy.
- Lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority in a highly matrixed environment.
- Coach and support team-level project managers to ensure strong execution and consistent practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience leading complex, enterprise-scale programs or portfolios, ideally within IT, workforce transformation, or large operational change initiatives.
- Proven success managing multi-workstream programs with significant scale, ambiguity, and executive visibility.
- Strong matrix leadership skills with the ability to influence across IT, Procurement, Finance, HR, and business leaders.
- Demonstrated expertise in program and project governance, risk management, dependency planning, and executive reporting.
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Experience supporting large vendor transitions, sourcing initiatives, or workforce/labor optimization programs.
- Experience working alongside consulting partners and external vendors.
- Work EST
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
- short-term and long-term disability
- life insurance
- many other opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
program managementproject governancerisk managementdependency planningexecutive reportingvendor managementlabor optimizationagile deliverybudget managementscope management
Soft Skills
matrix leadershipinfluencecommunicationcoachingteam collaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingpresentation skillsadaptabilitystakeholder management