Program Manager

AMN Healthcare; United States; On-site; USD 101,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AMN Healthcare seeks a Program Manager to drive enterprise program initiatives from inception to completion, defining scope, schedule, budget, and resources. The role collaborates with senior leadership, manages resources, and scales programs and workflows to advance business goals.

Responsibilities include leading strategic business development, overseeing multiple project teams, and ensuring governance approvals. Strong PMO governance and executive communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise application migrations and large IT projects.
• ERP rollout experience across complex environments.
• Advanced knowledge and technical competence in IT programs.

Responsibilities

• Leads strategic business development and roadmap planning for multiple projects.
• Manages program-level activities with design/architecture and infrastructure enhancements.
• Develops and drives implementation of programs achieving business results.
• Leads project managers in a matrixed governance environment with strategic advice.
• Manages master schedule, scope, budget, and prioritization at program level.
• Provides portfolio/rationalization guidance based on resources and goals.
• Delivers executive updates on program health and risks.

Skills

Enterprise migrations

ERP rollout

Advanced knowledge

PMO matrix environment

Strong communication

Reporting to upper management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree + 5-7 years

HS Diploma/GED + 9-11 years

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Job Description

Welcome to AMN Healthcare — Where Talent Meets Purpose

Ever wondered what it takes to build one of the largest and most respected healthcare staffing and total talent solutions companies? It takes trailblazers, innovators, and exceptional people like you.

At AMN Healthcare, we don’t just offer jobs — we build careers that make a difference.

Why AMN Healthcare? Because Excellence Is Our Standard:

• Named to Becker’s Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare — three years running.
• Consistently ranked among SIA’s Largest Staffing Firms in America.
• Honored with Modern Healthcare’s Innovators Award for driving change through innovation.
• Proud holder of The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Staffing Companies since 2006.

The Program Manager will drive enterprise program initiatives from inception to completion while defining and controlling the scope, schedule, budget, resource needs, and other project variables. The Program Manager collaborates with senior leadership, manages resources, and drives scalable programs and workflows to advance business initiatives.

Job Responsibilities

Leads Strategic Business Development for ongoing projects by gathering information from business sponsors, planning a strategic roadmap, and shepherding requests through to case completion and ultimately, governance approval.

Leads Strategic Program-level activities with responsibility for multiple, concurrent project teams that develop designs and install new enterprise applications, IT technical architecture, and infrastructure systems or enhancements to existing systems.

Develops and drives strategic implementation of the program and achieves desired business results.

Leads project managers in a matrixed reporting setup with strategic and tactical advice on program and project planning and execution using proven methodologies.

Responsible for developing, managing, and administrating the program-level master schedule, scope, budget, and prioritization.

Provides portfolio/project rationalization guidance based on resource constraints (e.g., financial, time, staff, and skills), business goals, and initiatives.

Provide leadership updates on program health to IT and business leaders via executive communications highlighting key unmitigated risks or issues needing management attention.

Develop and deploy project management office (PMO) communication plans, methods, and tools throughout the organization, including executive steering committees.

Functions as a senior liaison between Technology and the Business Client, and act as the go-to person that represents the entire program from the planning through deployment.

Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors, and key clients.

Able to think outside the box to innovatively tackle multiplex programs, and project challenges and improve PMO processes across the organizations.

Key Skills

• Experience with enterprise application migrations as well as with critically meaningful projects
• ERP rollout experience
• Advanced knowledge and technical competence
• Experience working in a PMO matrixed environment including helping guide and mentor Project Managers
• Strong Communication and presentation skills, able to speak organization-wide
• Skilled in preparing reports for upper management regarding status

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 5-7 years of work experience OR High School Diploma/GED plus 9-11 years of work experience

Certifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) (Preferred)
• Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master (Preferred)

Additional Experience

• Experience leading one or more sophisticated IT strategic programs
• Experience collaborating with corporate senior leadership, senior technologists, and business collaborators to align business requirements to IT strategy
• Experience in facilitating process design workshops within business and IT organizations
• Knowledgeable with Microsoft Project

Our Core Values

• Respect
• Passion
• Continuous Improvement
• Trust
• Customer Focus
• Innovation

At AMN we embrace the ways we are similar and different; respecting all voices and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our collective success. We acknowledge our shared responsibility to foster a welcoming environment where everyone feels recognized and valued. We cast a wide net to recruit and retain competitive talent and build healthcare workforces supportive of the communities we serve. We believe in the power of compassion and collaboration to build healthy communities where access to quality care is available to all. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

At AMN we recognize that in-person connections have value and promote collaboration. You will be expected to come into an AMN Healthcare office at a frequency dependent on the work arrangement for your role.

Pay Rate

$101,000 - $120,000 Salary

Final pay rate is dependent on experience, training, education, and location.