IT Program Manager I at Centene Corporation in Remote

Summary: Centene Corporation is a diversified national organization focused on improving health outcomes through technology. The IT Program Manager I role involves supporting leadership in managing large programs and projects, ensuring successful execution within technical, schedule, cost, and quality commitments. Responsibilities: - Evaluates, align, and integrate technical and business requirements and project plans to establish the program framework - Manages multiple project scopes and successful execution within technical, schedule, cost, and quality commitments - Provides direction to the project teams in areas of customer concerns, potential changes in scope, and risk assessment - Coordinates program management reviews, preparing and publishing program management metrics and reports; maintain metrics for projects' quality, technical performance, and delivery - Coordinates all risks and requirements of the projects by planning, controlling, and integrating all projects and measuring all elements to ensure the requirements and goals are successfully achieved - Provide insight and recommendations during project execution and implementation to remediate issues - Review and assess vendor statements of work and estimates - Determines, monitors, reviews, and reports on all program attributes including program costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources, quality, and risks - Provides periodic project updates (Program Status Report) of current situation relating to milestones and problem/high risk areas (e.g., technical, cost, and schedule); provide updates to the IT leadership team and the business units - Shares knowledge and develops team capabilities to strengthen understanding of IT and enterprise industry and business issues and best practices - Identifies areas for improvement, share lessons learnt across the firms’ IT project teams, and encourage others to do the same - Communicates regularly with functional and IT leaders to ensure enterprise alignment and support - Establishes client relationships - Performs other duties as assigned - Complies with all policies and standards Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree - 0 – 2 years of related experience - Experience with Microsoft Office - Experience with Project Management - Experience with Risk Management - Experience with developing, monitoring and managing project budgets and schedules - Beginner - Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty - Beginner - Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions Preferred Qualifications: - Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI Required Skills: Risk Management, Microsoft Office, Project Budgeting, Project Scheduling, Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Benefits: Competitive pay, Health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, Tuition reimbursement, Paid time off plus holidays, Flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules