Program Director – Strategic Initiatives
Navitus Health Solutions
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Idaho • United States
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Salary
💰 $128,961 - $161,201 per year
Job Level
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 & Tools
program managementbudget managementrisk managementperformance managementdata flowclaims adjudicationNCPDP claims processingAgile Delivery methodologiesprogram oversightmitigation strategies
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationmentoringcoachingdecision-makingproblem-solvingorganizational skillsstrategic thinkingfacilitation