Project Manager IV

Responsibilities

The Project Manager IV is responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing complex enterprise-wide projects, including clinical platform implementations. They will manage the full project life cycle, facilitate cross-functional collaboration, and ensure all deliverables meet quality standards and strategic objectives.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and at least 7 years of project management experience, preferably in healthcare or managed care. Proficiency in MS-Office and experience leading large-scale, cross-functional teams are required, with PMP certification preferred.

Skills

• Project management
• Clinical platform implementation
• Cross-functional team leadership
• Budget management
• Risk management
• Stakeholder communication
• Project documentation
• Strategic planning
• Healthcare industry knowledge
• Managed care
• MS-Office
• Process improvement

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Health insurance
• 401k
• Stock purchase plans
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Holidays

About this role

Position Purpose: Plan, organize, monitor, and oversee complex projects utilizing cross functional teams to deliver defined requirements and meet company strategic objectives. Assist in training and perform duties as the Lead Project Manager.

Key Details: Applicants can work remotely in the continental United States. Ideal candidates will have experience leading clinical platform implementations and projects at an enterprise-wide level.

Manage the full project life cycle, including review of various sources to assess requirements, 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. Assist with establishment and maintenance of corporate project management methodology and other department procedures.
Maintain detailed project documentation including meeting minutes, action items, issues lists and risk management plans.
Provide leadership and effectively communicate project status to all stakeholders and external agencies.
Negotiate with project stakeholders to identify resources, resolve issues, and mitigate risks.
Coordinate cross-functional meetings with various functional areas to meet overall stakeholder expectations and company’s objectives.
Provide functional and technical knowledge across multiple business and technical areas.
Monitor the creation of all project deliverables to ensure adherence to quality standards including design documents, test plans, training materials, and operations documentation.
Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience. 7+ years of project management experience with departmental specific projects. Previous experience as a lead in a functional area, managing cross functional teams on large scale projects or supervisory experience including hiring, training, assigning work and managing the performance of staff. Proficient with MS-Office applications. Healthcare experience; managed care experience preferred.

License/Certification: PMP certification preferred.
Pay Range: $87,700.00 - $157,800.00 per year

At Centene, we connect people to the care they need to live healthier lives — and the work you do here makes that impact real every day. You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.
Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.
Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act

About Centene Corporation

Hospitals and Health Care · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in Saint Louis, MO · founded 1984