Program Manager III
About The Position
Centene is transforming the health of its communities, one person at a time. As a diversified, national organization, you’ll have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility. This role promotes increased program efficiency, service levels, and value by capturing and monitoring performance, and then identifying opportunities for improvement and strategies to realize those opportunities. The Program Manager will plan, organize, monitor, oversee and lead multiple, concurrent resultant projects utilizing cross functional teams to deliver defined requirements and meet company strategic objectives. This role is responsible for coordinating enterprise responses to regulatory inquiries, examinations, and requests for information from regulators and other external stakeholders. The Program Manager serves as the central point of coordination across operational, risk, compliance, and business functions to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent responses. This role organizes and manages multiple concurrent information requests, facilitates document collection and validation, and ensures responses align with regulatory expectations, internal policies, and governance standards. A candidate residing in the greater New York area is preferred due to approximately 15% of travel for in-person and/or department meetings to our Fidelis offices in either Buffalo, Long Island City, or Latham. Applicants for this job have the flexibility to work remote from home anywhere in the United States.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years project implementation, product or program management experience.
- Managed care or prescription benefit management experience preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree preferred.
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
Benefits
- competitive pay
- health insurance
- 401K
- stock purchase plans
- tuition reimbursement
- paid time off
- holidays
- a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
