The Program Manager Certified is responsible for overseeing the coordinated delivery and performance of programs comprised of multiple related projects and project portfolios. This role focuses on establishing program and portfolio strategies, aligning priorities, and optimizing resources, budgets, and timelines across project portfolios to achieve defined business outcomes. The Program Manager partners closely with sponsors and crossfunctional teams to manage interdependencies, risks, and tradeoffs, ensuring projects collectively align with organizational objectives.
The role maintains endtoend accountability for program and portfolio outcomes, from shaping the overarching approach and governance through execution and postdelivery value realization. This position may manage programs that include highcomplexity initiatives, with an emphasis on portfoliolevel oversight, performance monitoring, and strategic decision support to enable consistent, valuedriven delivery.
Essential Job Function:
- Strategic Program & Portfolio Planning: Develops and maintains an integrated approach across project portfolios, defining priorities, scope, timelines, and key deliverables. Ensures alignment of project portfolios with organizational strategy, business objectives, and outcome realization.
- Portfolio Oversight & Performance Management: Oversees multiple concurrent projects, monitoring progress, interdependencies, risks, and benefits realization. Analyzes portfoliolevel performance metrics to identify trends, drive corrective actions, and optimize outcomes.
- Resource & Financial Optimization: Manages budget performance and resource allocation across project portfolios, balancing capacity, cost, and priorities. Partners with finance and leadership to resolve funding conflicts, address variances, and ensure efficient utilization of shared resources.
- Stakeholder & Governance Management: Acts as a primary point of coordination for program governance, engaging sponsors and senior stakeholders to review portfolio health, resolve tradeoffs, and support decisionmaking. Provides concise portfoliolevel reporting, insights, and recommendations aligned to leadership needs.
- Risk, Dependency & Issue Resolution: Proactively identifies and manages crossproject risks, dependencies, and competing priorities across portfolios. Facilitates issue resolution, escalates when appropriate, and drives alignment to maintain momentum and delivery commitments.
- Team Leadership: Possess the ability to motivate and guide teams, build consensus, and make informed decisions
- Budget Management: Monitors program budgets, tracking underlying project expenses for equipment, supplies, and contracted services, while working closely with the finance department to ensure financial compliance and cost-efficient program execution. Identifies cost variances and takes corrective actions to stay within budget constraints.
- Communication management: Communicates and strategizes with program and portfolio sponsors to formulate meeting agendas. Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey information to diverse stakeholders
Facilitates communications and maintains strong relationships with stakeholders, including hospital departments, physicians, vendors, and regulatory agencies, to address program-related concerns, obtain necessary approvals. - Regularly creates and presents program and portfolio reports, including status updates, performance metrics, and key insights to key stakeholders, including senior leadership, team members, and clients.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Monitors and coordinates dependencies across the projects in the program and portfolio, works seamlessly with diverse teams from different departments to ensure program execution.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education:
- Required: Bachelor's Degree.
Experience:
- Required: 7-10 years in project management
Licensure/Certification/Listing:
- Required: PfMP, PMP, Lean, and/or SCM certification.
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Cone Health
May 16, 2026