Program Director – Strategic Initiatives
Navitus Health Solutions
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Idaho • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $128,961 - $161,201 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Define, maintain, and monitor progress toward the program vision aligned to initiative and organization strategy to include critical milestones for delivery and value realization
- Establish, communicate, and enforce governance frameworks for communications, decision-making, risk management, performance management, and resource allocation to ensure consistent, effective, and proactive alignment through the program lifecycle
- Act as the bridge between executive leadership and program team members, translating goals into action plans that meet leadership expectations
- Develop and manage integrated program plans, including milestones, dependencies, and critical paths
- Create and manage program budgets, ensuring fiscal responsibility and alignment with capital investment priorities
- Monitor financial performance
- Provide overall program oversight, ensuring execution across budget, timeline, scope, dependencies, issues, and risks
- Develop and manage mitigation strategies
- Create progress and performance visibility through impactful dashboards and program metrics
- Lead issue resolution and decision-making, escalating when necessary and facilitating major program decisions through actionable insights
- Deliver executive-level communication and coordination, including status reporting and strategic updates
- Organize and facilitate steering committee meetings and ensure alignment on key decisions
- Serve as the central point for program communications, approving and overseeing messaging
- Ensure communications appropriate for the entire organization and external customers are planned, consistent, transparent, and meet desired intent
- Ensure compliance with strategic initiative audit requirements, enterprise architecture standards, and software delivery frameworks
- Manage and direct program managers, reviewing status reports and ensuring adherence to governance standards
- Ensure necessary talent is available for successful delivery
- Oversee direct reports and matrixed project team members, fostering collaboration and accountability
- Lead, mentor, coach, and develop team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience, required
- 7+ years’ experience in pharmacy benefit management (PBM) business processes, data flow, claims adjudication, and NCPDP claims processing standards required
- 5+ years leading project teams required
- Experience successfully managing large-scale, enterprise-wide projects involving technology and business changes
- Knowledge of administration of Medicare, Medicaid, and Exchange benefits
- Experience communicating complex messages to all levels of the organization
- Strong understanding of healthcare compliance and regulatory requirements
- Knowledge of Agile Delivery methodologies
Benefits
- Top of the industry benefits for Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- 20 days paid time off
- 4 weeks paid parental leave
- 9 paid holidays
- 401K company match of up to 5% - No vesting requirement
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Account
- Educational Assistance Plan and Professional Membership assistance
- Referral Bonus Program – up to $750!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
program managementbudget managementrisk managementperformance managementdata flowclaims adjudicationNCPDP claims processingAgile Delivery methodologiesprogram oversightmitigation strategies
Soft skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationmentoringcoachingdecision-makingproblem-solvingorganizational skillsstrategic thinkingfacilitation