Senior Program Manager

Senior Program ManagerChange Healthcare is a leading healthcare technology company with a mission to inspire a better healthcare system. We deliver innovative solutions to patients, hospitals, and insurance companies to improve clinical decision making, simplify financial processes, and enable better patient experiences to improve lives and support healthier communities. Title: Senior Program ManagerPosition: The Program Manager is a position that will help lead cross-company coordination and management for strategic enterprise-wide, business-facing initiatives. The Program Manager will align closely and work in partnership with multiple teams, Businesses, Finance Partners, Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering teams, and other Enterprise Services. The Program Manager will coordinate with teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and progress against the program objectives and targets. The Program Manager will assist with planning, strategic coordination of technical and business roadmaps, critical dependencies, successes, and execution challenges. In addition, the Program Manager will help enable teams to continuously improve processes and practices. Core Responsibilities:Facilitate regular synchronization meetings to manage and monitor dependencies within the program

Escalate and track impediments

Expose risks, issues and constraints to the organization, including senior leaders, and work together on a resolution

Drive relentless improvement via Program retrospectives, demos and other improvement initiatives

Coach Scrum Masters and teams on agile best practices and improvements

Facilitate Program Increment Planning and Planning Readiness

Manage Objectives, track progress and build/maintain related lean-agile metrics. Use empirical data to help the organization determine opportunities and improvements

Understand the opportunities and challenges of continuously aligning a large development program and effectively coordinate Program activities

Requirements:Minimum 5 years of experience as a Project or Program Manager

SAFe certification or implementing SAFe across an organization

Experience working with remote teams in an agile environment and directly with product managers and product owners

Good understanding of, and experience with, technical systems; ability to identify technical solutions for business problems

Understand the software development life cycle

Communicate clearly to explain and defend their opinions

Are self-motivated and excellent problem-solvers

Are driven to improve, personally and professionally

Mentor and inspire others to raise the bar for everyone around them

Actively collaborate with their peers, designing pragmatic solutions

Operate best in a fast-paced, flexible work environment

Have a passion for facilitation of planning, Agile ceremonies, and even tough conversations amongst senior leaders

Facilitator of challenging conversations, supporter of individuals and teams through conflict.

Follow through with commitments.

Preferred Qualifications: · SAFe experience and/or certifications such as the SPC, PO/PM or SSM preferred

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