Life Sciences PMO Lead | AI-Driven Healthcare

Health Data Innovations, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid work

Flexible hours

Inclusive environment

Medical insurance

Job summary

Qualified Health is seeking a Senior Program Manager, Life Sciences, to own delivery across pharma programs, define contractual scope, and manage milestones with a hands-on approach that evolves into a leadership role within a growing PMO. You will coordinate clinical, product, data, engineering, and IT teams, ensuring alignment with customer commitments and rapid escalation of risks.

The role emphasizes proactive communication with executives and pharma stakeholders, and growth into leading a

Qualifications

• Run complex, multi-stakeholder programs end to end at senior level with ownership.
• Experience in external customer-facing role, including executive updates and steering committee style check-ins.
• Track record delivering across clinical, product, data, and engineering teams.
• Strong skills in scoping work, building delivery plans, and managing issues, risks, and dependencies.
• Active use of AI tools in your current work, with examples of how you have applied them.
• Proactive, clear communication with executives and customers, including comfort raising uncomfortable truths early.
• High sense of urgency and comfort with ambiguity, with an owner's mindset.
• Proficiency with project and task management tools (Notion, Jira, or similar).
• An undergraduate degree.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage contractual scope for Life Sciences programs, and keep delivery aligned with customer commitments as work evolves.
• Build and track delivery plans across customer, clinical, product, data, engineering, AI transformation, and health system IT teams, and course-correct early when work deviates from plan.
• Surface risks and blockers proactively, say clearly what is blocking progress, and bring in the right leader at the right time.
• When delivery drifts from plan, reset the plan and the conversation with the customer.
• Give leadership and customers a single view of progress (green, yellow, red), including risks, issues, and what help is needed, and use AI tools to produce it quickly.
• Own external customer communications, including recurring check-ins every 3 to 4 months with pharma stakeholders, with honest, polished updates on what is done and what is not.
• Work with the teams that lead health system delivery so each program has one accountable view from commitment to deployment.
• Help build the Life Sciences PMO, including its operating rhythm, templates, and reporting, and lead it as the function grows.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools usage

Executive communication

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Notion

Jira

Job description

Qualified Health is seeking a Senior Program Manager, Life Sciences, to own delivery across pharma programs, define contractual scope, and manage milestones with a hands-on approach that evolves into a leadership role within a growing PMO. You will coordinate clinical, product, data, engineering, and IT teams, ensuring alignment with customer commitments and rapid escalation of risks.

The role emphasizes proactive communication with executives and pharma stakeholders, and growth into leading a