Program Manager V - Healthcare Analytics

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members. Centene is transforming the health of our communities, one person at a time. As a diversified, national organization, you’ll have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.
 

** Prefer candidates who are within commuting distance of the Long Island City Office and are able to be in office 1-2 days per week. **

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Sponsorship and future sponsorship are not available for this opportunity, including employment-based visa types H-1B, L-1, O-1, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, or CPT.

Position Purpose: The Program Manager V operates as a PMO/Director-level governance leader for a healthcare analytics organization. This role owns the analytics portfolio operating model—intake, prioritization, governance, standards, and executive reporting—ensuring analytics initiatives and data products deliver measurable value across medical cost, quality, risk adjustment, value-based care, and operational performance. The Program Manager V partners with clinical, finance, operations, and technology leaders to drive decisions on scope, funding, capacity, and sequencing; ensures appropriate controls for regulated healthcare data (including privacy and security); and provides functional leadership to program and project managers supporting analytics delivery.

• Owns PMO governance for the healthcare analytics portfolio (initiatives and data products), aligning demand to enterprise priorities across medical economics, clinical analytics, quality (e.g., HEDIS), risk adjustment, and value-based care.

• Designs and runs the analytics operating model: intake and triage, prioritization, stage gates, delivery standards, and decision rights; ensures consistent use across analytics teams and partners.

• Chairs/coordinates executive governance forums and portfolio reviews; drives timely decisions on scope, sequencing, funding, and resource trade-offs when analytics capacity is constrained.

• Establishes and enforces reporting standards (KPI definitions, objective and key results definitions, dependency and risk thresholds) and delivers executive-ready portfolio dashboards, narratives, and decision memos.

• Leads integrated planning across analytics workstreams (BI/reporting, data engineering, data governance, advanced analytics/ML, vendor feeds), including dependency mapping, release planning, and operational readiness.

• Drives quality and reliability controls for analytics outputs (data quality checks, reconciliation, lineage documentation, change management for metric definitions) to increase trust and reduce rework.

• Owns portfolio financial governance (budget planning, forecasting, vendor spend) and benefits realization (value hypotheses, adoption, and outcomes tracking) in partnership with finance and business sponsors.

• Provides functional leadership and mentorship to program/project managers and analysts supporting delivery, including coaching on governance rigor, stakeholder management, and execution discipline.

• Continuously improves PMO practices, tooling, and templates to mature analytics delivery (e.g., standard charters, requirements, validation plans, release notes, and post-implementation measurement).

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Complies with all policies and standards.

Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience required. Master’s degree preferred. 10+ years of data and analytical roles. Experience in project implementation, program management experience required. 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 required. Proficiency in MS Office applications and project management tools required. Healthcare experience and/or managed care experience preferred.

License/Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) preferred.

Pay Range: $107,700.00 - $199,300.00 per year

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