Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Centene is a diversified national healthcare organization focused on transforming the health of its communities. The Program Manager III promotes program efficiency, service levels, and regulatory compliance while coordinating enterprise responses to regulatory inquiries and managing multiple cross-functional projects. The role oversees project planning, execution, documentation, stakeholder communication, resource allocation, and risk mitigation.
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities to increase efficiency, improve service levels and to ensure regulatory compliance through enhanced operations
- Works closely with Compliance, Legal, Risk Management, and business leaders to track requests, manage deadlines, and maintain clear communication with internal stakeholders. Establishes and maintains processes and tools to support regulatory response management, including tracking systems, document repositories, and standardized response templates
- Develop strategies to realize improvement opportunities, and ensure organizational prioritization and resource alignment
- Manage multiple projects through full project life cycle process including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources, managing budget, and facilitating project execution, deployment and closure
- Utilize corporate and industry standard project management tools and techniques to effectively manage projects
- Maintain detailed project documentation as needed including action items, issues lists and risk mitigation plans
- Provide leadership and effectively communicate project status to all stakeholders, including executive summaries and presentations
- Negotiate with project stakeholders to identify and secure resources, resolve issues, and mitigate risks
- Lead cross-functional meetings with various functional areas to meet overall stakeholder expectations and company’s objectives
- Provide functional and technical knowledge regarding overall program requirements and operations
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years project implementation, product or program management experience
- Applicants for this job have the flexibility to work remote from home anywhere in the United States
- Candidate residing in greater New York area preferred due to approximately 15% of travel for in-person and/or department meetings to our Fidelis offices in either Buffalo, Long Island City, Latham
- Master's degree preferred
- Managed care or prescription benefit management experience preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401K and stock purchase plans
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off plus holidays
- A flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules
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