Vice President, Enterprise PMO

Position Purpose: Oversee department staff including hiring, performance management and career development to ensure alignment with defined goals.

• Develop budgets and priorities, ensuring plans and resource allocations are consistent with those budgets and priorities.
• Coordinate for the plans and activities of the organization with senior leaders inside and outside IT, as well as strategic suppliers.
• Anticipate and analyze the needs of customers and recommend and develop priorities for feasibility studies, systems design, and implementation to develop new and modify the company’s information processing systems and policies and procedures.
• Transform the PMO operating model: Shift the function from traditional administration and status reporting toward strategic delivery, transparency, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish consistent enterprise standards: Strengthen project governance, portfolio management, reporting, risk escalation, and delivery accountability.
• Improve portfolio performance: Drive stronger project health, including the stated objective of moving approximately 80% of the portfolio to green status.
• Create a metrics-driven environment: Improve visibility into delivery quality, project health, resource demand, and execution risk.
• Advance tooling, automation, and AI adoption: Improve efficiency and reduce administrative burden, with ServiceNow experience viewed as an advantage.
• Align delivery across BTS: Connect project managers, program managers, delivery leads, and contractors operating within and outside the centralized PMO.
• Strengthen organizational capability: Build skills, coach leaders, manage performance, and clarify expectations for the future PMO organization.
• Apply process and business expertise to impact business results.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Education/Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field or equivalent experience required.
10+ years of diverse IT experience required.
Previous experience managing staff, including hiring, training, managing workload and performance.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.Pay Range: $171,900.00 - $326,900.00 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