Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The PBM Program Director role involves leading a significant enterprise-wide initiative for a healthcare organization, focusing on modernizing pharmacy benefits management strategies. This position requires extensive program management experience, particularly in large-scale implementations, and demands collaboration with senior leadership and project managers. The role is fully remote, with candidates expected to reside in specific states. It is a high-impact position central to the organization's future operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a large-scale PBM implementation program with enterprise-wide impact.
- Partner directly with the implementation partner's senior director and program director to guide overall program work on the business side.
- Organize and oversee work, ensuring adherence to organizational standards.
- Work closely with and provide coaching and assignments to multiple project managers supporting the program.
- Collaborate extensively with senior leadership, synthesizing complex information and conveying it effectively for decision-making and action.
- Oversee IT deliverables, providing guidance to IT-focused Project Managers, and ensuring alignment with overall program objectives.
- Manage program budget, ensuring adherence, conveying budget impacts, and supporting decisions related to financial changes.
- Identify and address escalations, ensure team alignment, and maintain commitment to deliverables and timelines.
- Monitor the broader program picture, understanding how individual workstreams connect and impact overall delivery.
Key Skills:
- 10-15+ years of experience in program management, with a focus on leading large-scale implementations.
- Required PBM experience, either from an insurance payer side or directly from a PBM.
- Proven experience leading large-scale IT implementations.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize large amounts of information and communicate complex ideas to executive leadership.
- Experience with programs involving significant budgetary responsibilities (comfort with managing budgets in the $50-60 million range).
- Bachelor's degree or an additional four years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Strong situational awareness and communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
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Title: PBM Program Director
Location: Owings Mills, MD 21117
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Job Description:
Terms of Employment:
- W2 Contract-to-Hire, 12 Months
- This is a 100% remote position. Candidates must reside in Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Florida, or Texas.
Overview:
- Work with a leading healthcare organization as a PBM Program Director to lead a critical, large-scale enterprise-wide initiative. This role is at the forefront of modernizing the company s pharmacy benefits management strategy, which may include a significant PBM vendor change and insourcing of key functions. You will act as an "Uber program manager," overseeing multiple workstreams, driving strategic objectives, and ensuring alignment with senior leadership. This is a high-impact position central to the future operations of the organization.
You will
- Lead and manage a large-scale PBM implementation program with enterprise-wide impact.
- Partner directly with the implementation partner's senior director and program director to guide overall program work on the business side.
- Organize and oversee work, ensuring adherence to organizational standards.
- Work closely with and provide coaching and assignments to multiple project managers supporting the program.
- Collaborate extensively with senior leadership, synthesizing complex information and conveying it effectively for decision-making and action.
- Oversee IT deliverables, providing guidance to IT-focused Project Managers, and ensuring alignment with overall program objectives.
- Manage program budget, ensuring adherence, conveying budget impacts, and supporting decisions related to financial changes.
- Identify and address escalations, ensure team alignment, and maintain commitment to deliverables and timelines.
- Monitor the broader program picture, understanding how individual workstreams connect and impact overall delivery.
Required Qualifications:
- 10-15+ years of experience in program management, with a focus on leading large-scale implementations.
- Required PBM experience, either from an insurance payer side or directly from a PBM.
- Proven experience leading large-scale IT implementations.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize large amounts of information and communicate complex ideas to executive leadership.
- Experience with programs involving significant budgetary responsibilities (comfort with managing budgets in the $50-60 million range).
- Bachelor's degree or an additional four years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Strong situational awareness and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with healthcare industry implementations.
- Familiarity with specific IT tools/technologies such as data and analytics, MuleSoft, Facets, Salesforce integration, or API development.
- Program Management certification (PMP or similar).
Sincerely,
Preetam Raj
Lead Technical Recruiter
nTech Workforce Inc.
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