Program Director - Life Sciences

Veradigm; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Veradigm seeks an experienced Program Director to drive execution of its Life Sciences Growth Strategy. This high-visibility role acts as the operational backbone for a cross-functional portfolio, aligning strategic priorities with on-track delivery.

The ideal candidate blends program management discipline with technical fluency across engineering, product, data, and regulatory stakeholders. Reporting to senior leadership, the role is an individual contributor with executive exposure, requiring

Qualifications

• 14+ years of program or project management experience in technical or product environments.
• Experience supporting or driving execution of a strategic initiative at organizational level.
• Strong knowledge of roadmapping, dependency and risk management, and status reporting.
• Comfort working with engineering/technical teams and translating updates for non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with senior leadership experience.
• Ability to operate autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Experience in Life Sciences, healthcare, pharma, or related regulated industry.
• Familiarity with regulatory, clinical or commercial workflows in Life Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio execution across the Life Sciences Growth Strategy.
• Establish and run program governance and status reviews.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and unblock issues.
• Translate strategy into structured programs with clear milestones.
• Maintain risk and issue logs with mitigation plans.
• Create portfolio dashboards and executive status reporting.
• Support capacity planning and resource sequencing.
• Champion process improvements for faster, reliable execution.
• Bridge technical and business conversations with stakeholders.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Risk management

Life Sciences

Regulatory knowledge

PM tooling (Jira/Asana/Smartsheet/Confl

Education

PM certification (PMP/PgMP/SAFe)

Tools

Jira

Asana

Smartsheet

Confluence

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Program Director to drive execution of our Life Sciences Growth Strategy. This role serves as the operational backbone for a cross-functional portfolio of initiatives, ensuring that strategic priorities translate into coordinated, on-track delivery. The ideal candidate combines strong program management discipline with enough technical fluency to work credibly with engineering, product, data, and clinical/regulatory stakeholders, and enough business acumen to keep execution tied to growth outcomes. This is a high-visibility, individual contributor role reporting into senior leadership, with regular exposure to executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams across the Life Sciences business.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio execution: Serve as the central point of coordination across the Life Sciences Growth Strategy portfolio, tracking scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, and resourcing across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Drive delivery cadence: Establish and run program governance - status reviews, steering committees, roadmap check-ins - that keep leadership and stakeholders aligned on progress and blockers.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies: Identify and resolve interdependencies between engineering, product, data science, commercial, regulatory, and clinical teams; elevate and unblock issues before they threaten timelines.
• Translate strategy into execution plans: Partner with leadership to break the Growth Strategy's priorities into structured programs, workstreams, and milestones with clear owners and success metrics.
• Manage risk proactively: Maintain a live risk and issue log across the portfolio; drive mitigation plans and ensure risks are surfaced to the right decision-makers early.
• Report on progress and health: Build and maintain portfolio-level dashboards and executive-ready status reporting that clearly communicate progress, risk, and resourcing needs.
• Support resource planning: Work with functional leads to understand capacity constraints and help sequence work across the portfolio accordingly.
• Champion process improvement: Identify and implement process, tooling, or communication improvements that increase the speed and reliability of execution across the portfolio.
• Bridge technical and business conversations: Work fluently with technical teams to understand delivery realities, while translating those realities into business-relevant updates for non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 14+ years of program or project management experience, including managing complex, multi-workstream portfolios in a technical or product environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or driving execution of a strategic initiative at the organizational level (growth strategy, transformation program, multi-team platform effort, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of program management practices: roadmapping, dependency management, risk management, resource planning, and status reporting.
• Comfort working directly with engineering and technical teams - able to understand technical constraints and trade-offs well enough to manage timelines and risk credibly.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience communicating with and influencing senior leadership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize complex, cross-functional information into clear, actionable updates.
• Proven ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Experience in Life Sciences, healthcare, pharma, or a related regulated industry.
• Familiarity with regulatory, clinical, or commercial workflows relevant to Life Sciences organizations.
• Experience with program management tooling (e.g., Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, Confluence) and portfolio-level reporting.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent program/project management certification.
• Experience building or scaling program governance structures from the ground up.

Compensation for this job is subject to market conditions, geographic considerations, the candidate's unique skills and experience, state and local laws, and budget. Our commitment to pay transparency is a testament to our dedication to creating a fair, equitable, and inclusive workplace. By continuously analyzing market trends, staying abreast of changes in state laws, and making budgetary adjustments accordingly, we strive to ensure that our compensation practices reflect the value we place on our associates' unique contributions and support their professional growth.

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