Integration Project Manager

Diverge Health; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Diverge Health is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead an early-stage merger integration from planning through execution. You will coordinate workstreams, maintain detailed execution plans, and ensure alignment with executives and stakeholders.

This role requires cross-functional collaboration and a focus on delivering a thoughtful, organized integration experience. Ideal candidates will have PMP credentials, 3+ years of PM experience including two or more end-to-end M&A integrations,

Qualifications

• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential.
• 3+ years of project management experience, including multiple (2+) end-to-end M&A integrations.
• Proficiency in modern project management tooling, including Aha!, Microsoft Project, and SharePoint.
• Comfort with high-availability expectations, including responsiveness during evenings and weekends for escalations.
• Healthcare industry experience, particularly in value-based care, technology-enabled clinical services, FQHCs, or managed care organizations.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational backbone for the merger integration, keeping workstreams on track and guiding executives.
• Develop detailed 2026 execution plans across all workstreams with clear ownership and milestones.
• Track status, surface risks, drive decisions, and document outcomes for alignment.
• Build and execute a change management strategy across both organizations.
• Deliver executive-ready updates for steering committees and leadership reviews.

Skills

PMP certification

Project management

End-to-end M&A integrations

Tools

Aha!

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Job description

At Diverge Health we are passionate about improving health access and outcomes for those most in need. We partner with primary care providers to improve the engagement and management of their Medicaid patients, offering independent practices with specialized resources and clinical programs to close gaps in care. Our teams work to address medical, social and behavioral patient needs, lowering healthcare costs and improving patient lives. Guided by our core values of humility, continuous learning and feeling the weight, our team is on a mission to strengthen communities from within, unlocking people's ability to live their healthiest lives.

What you’ll do

You'll inherit an early-stage merger integration and carry it forward, bridging what's already been scoped with the detailed execution plans needed to see it through. You'll serve as the operational backbone of the effort, keeping workstreams on track, enabling executives to stay at the right altitude, and ensuring both sides of the transaction experience the integration as thoughtful, organized, and human.

Key areas you’ll add value

• Orient quickly to the existing plan, workstream owners, and stakeholders, and drive pre-close milestones to completion alongside our Chief of Staff, who leads this effort.
• Build detailed 2026 execution plans across all workstreams and maintain them as a living document, with clear ownership, tracked milestones, and updates as priorities and complexity shift.
• Track status across workstreams and facilitate workgroup meetings, proactively surfacing risks and blockers, driving decisions, and documenting outcomes to keep stakeholders aligned and accountable.
• Build and execute a change management strategy across both organizations.
• Deliver crisp, executive-ready updates and materials for steering committee and leadership reviews, reducing burden on leadership rather than adding to it.
• Operate at both altitudes, setting direction at the program level while rolling up your sleeves to execute directly when a task needs it.
• Partner with leadership team members to shape the 2027 roadmap, spotting gaps in readiness and coordination as the integration matures.

What you’ll bring

• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential.
• 3+ years of project management experience, including multiple (2+) end-to-end M&A integrations.
• Proficiency in modern project management tooling, including Aha!, Microsoft Project, and SharePoint.
• Comfort with high-availability expectations, including responsiveness during evenings and weekends for escalations.
• Healthcare industry experience, particularly in value-based care, technology-enablement clinical services companies, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), or managed care organizations.

Preferred experience

• Consulting background or experience working in a consulting-adjacent environment.
• Systems thinking, with genuine comfort with complexity, interdependencies, and operating without complete information.
• Experience bridging technology strategy and operational execution, including partnering closely with technology leaders to align product and systems decisions with broader integration goals.
• Chicago-based with availability for regular in-person presence preferred.

Who we’re looking for

• Listen first, orient quickly, and earn trust through follow-through.
• Stay steady in ambiguity, turning unclear situations into clear next steps.
• Hold yourself accountable to outcomes, knowing that this integration has real stakes for real people.
• Bring people through change with empathy and clarity, understanding that how the work gets done matters as much as whether it gets done.
• Operate effectively with close initial oversight during a ramp period, receiving that structure as an investment in shared success rather than a signal of distrust.
• A strong representative of both organizations' mission, vision, and values in every interaction, every meeting, and every hard conversation throughout this integration.

This is a full-time, exempt, salaried position. Commensurate on candidate experience, the expected base salary range for this role is $125,000-$140,000. Our Investors Diverge Health is funded by GV and incubated by Triple Aim Partners , which since 2019 has partnered with entrepreneurs to co-found and launch eight companies focused on improving the quality, experience and total cost of healthcare. At Diverge Health we believe that a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences enrich our teams and enable us to realize our mission. If you do not have experience in all areas detailed above, we encourage you to share your unique background with us and how it might be additive to our team.

Special Considerations Diverge Health is dedicated to the principles of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Employment Opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, reproductive health decisions, family responsibilities or any other characteristic protected by the federal, state or local laws. Our decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance and business needs. At this time, we are unable to support hiring in Alaska and Hawaii due to our primary operations being based in the Eastern and Central time zones . Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future .