Program manager Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Job Description:

• Lead a strategically related portfolio of programs, projects, and initiatives across business, technology, clinical, regulatory, operational, and external-partner domains
• Translate enterprise and domain strategies into portfolio roadmaps, priorities, intended outcomes, and measurable success criteria
• Maintain integrated visibility into portfolio health, including scope, schedule, financial performance, capacity, risks, dependencies, decisions, and benefits
• Evaluate initiatives based on strategic value, urgency, complexity, risk, sequencing, resources, and organizational readiness
• Identify systemic risks, bottlenecks, opportunities, and cross-project trade-offs
• Recommend acceleration, deferral, reshaping, or escalation of work based on priorities and capacity
• Establish and facilitate portfolio and program governance, decision rights, escalation paths, accountability, and operating rhythms
• Partner with executive sponsors and domain leaders to validate priorities, resolve trade-offs, and address constraints
• Translate complex portfolio information into executive insights, options, recommendations, and decision requests
• Coordinate work across business, technology, operations, clinical, regulatory, finance, data, vendor, and other delivery partners
• Integrate cross-project and cross-domain dependencies, milestones, capacity requirements, and decisions
• Guide Project Managers and delivery leads while preserving delivery accountability
• Define and maintain portfolio and program outcomes, benefits, measures, assumptions, and value targets
• Monitor business outcomes, adoption, operational readiness, and benefits realization
• Build relationships with senior leaders, executive sponsors, and cross-functional partners
• Create integrated communication strategies and communicate risks, choices, recommendations, and business implications
• Influence and negotiate across organizational boundaries in a matrixed environment
• Coach and mentor Project Managers and delivery leads
• Reinforce PMO standards, tools, governance practices, and communication expectations
• Lead cross-functional change, anticipate resistance and readiness concerns, and coordinate initiative sequencing
• Assess risks and establish mitigation, contingency, and escalation strategies
• Monitor financial health, investment assumptions, resource demand, and capacity constraints
• Partner with procurement, finance, legal, compliance, technology, and operational leaders
• Manage vendor performance against contracts, statements of work, commitments, and expected outcomes
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested

Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen due to Department of Defense (DOD) contract requirements
• Must pass a background check
• Minimum high school diploma / GED
• 7–10 years of work experience in project management or delivering business solutions using information technology
• Preferred: bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Preferred: advanced degree in business, technology management, healthcare administration, or a related discipline
• Preferred: seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in program management, portfolio management, strategic execution, transformation, or complex cross-functional delivery
• Experience leading multiple interdependent initiatives across organizational or functional boundaries
• Experience working with senior leaders and executive sponsors
• Experience leading through influence in a matrixed environment
• Experience developing executive-level communications, recommendations, roadmaps, and integrated program or portfolio reporting
• Experience identifying and managing cross-project dependencies, resource constraints, and strategic risks
• Experience in healthcare, insurance, regulated operations, technology-enabled transformation, or another complex regulated environment
• Experience with benefits realization, portfolio governance, organizational change, and executive decision facilitation
• Experience coaching or developing Project Managers and delivery leaders
• Experience using portfolio-management and collaboration platforms
• Required licenses/certifications: None
• Preferred: PMP, PgMP, PfMP, or comparable program, portfolio, change-management, or agile certification
• Must comply with HIPAA, data security guidelines, the Company’s Code of Business Conduct, applicable laws, regulations, policies, and training requirements