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Navitus Health Solutions · 9 hours ago

Program Director, Strategic Initiatives

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$129K/yr - $161K/yr

7+ years exp

Navitus Health Solutions is committed to making medications more affordable through innovative pharmacy benefit management. The Program Director, Strategic Initiatives will provide strategic oversight for high-risk initiatives, ensuring alignment across the organization and successful compliance with healthcare standards.

Health CareInformation Technology

Responsibilities

Define, maintain , and monitor progress toward the program vision aligned to initiative and organization strategy to include critical milestones for delivery and value realization

Establish, communicate, and enforce governance frameworks for communications, decision-making, risk management, performance management, and resource allocation to ensure consistent, effective, and proactive alignment through the program lifecycle

Act as the bridge between executive leadership and program team members, translating goals into action plans that meet leadership expectations

Develop and manage integrated program plans, including milestones, dependencies, and critical paths

Create and manage program budgets, ensuring fiscal responsibility and alignment with capital investment priorities. Monitor financial performance

Provide overall program oversight, ensuring execution across budget, timeline, scope, dependencies, issues, and risks. Develop and manage mitigation strategies. Create progress and performance visibility through impactful dashboards and program metrics

Lead issue resolution and decision-making, escalating when necessary and facilitating major program decisions through actionable insights

Deliver executive-level communication and coordination, including status reporting and strategic updates. Organize and facilitate steering committee meetings and ensure alignment on key decisions

Serve as the central point for program communications, approving and overseeing messaging. Ensure communications appropriate for the entire organization and external customers are planned, consistent, transparent, and meet desired intent

Ensure compliance with strategic initiative audit requirements, enterprise architecture standards, and software delivery frameworks

Manage and direct program managers, reviewing status reports and ensuring adherence to governance standards

Ensure necessary talent is available for successful delivery. Oversee direct reports and matrixed project team members, fostering collaboration and accountability. Lead, mentor, coach, and develop team members

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Pharmacy Benefit ManagementHealthcare ComplianceProject ManagementAgile Delivery MethodologiesMedicareMedicaid KnowledgeCommunication SkillsTeam Leadership

Required

Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience, required

7+ years' experience in pharmacy benefit management (PBM) business processes, data flow, claims adjudication, and NCPDP claims processing standards required

5+ years leading project teams required

Experience successfully managing large-scale, enterprise-wide projects involving technology and business changes

Knowledge of administration of Medicare, Medicaid, and Exchange benefits

Experience communicating complex messages to all levels of the organization

Strong understanding of healthcare compliance and regulatory requirements

Knowledge of Agile Delivery methodologies

Participate in, adhere to, and support compliance program objectives

The ability to consistently interact cooperatively and respectfully with other employees