Senior Technical Program Manager, R&D

Vizient, Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. seeks a senior program manager to lead large, complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and business areas. You will partner with senior product and engineering leaders to shape delivery strategy, governance, and executive visibility across interdependent programs.

You will manage the full lifecycle, mitigate risks, and align stakeholders while strengthening program management practices. Extensive healthcare tech experience is preferred and leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in technical program management, software delivery, or complex transformation programs.
• Proven success leading cross-functional technical programs with senior leaders.
• Strong technical fluency in software platforms, cloud, data, AI/ML, or integrations.
• Experience in healthcare or regulated industries preferred.
• Advanced client management and executive communication skills.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to navigate ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, planning, and execution for large multi-team programs.
• Partner with senior product and engineering leaders to align delivery with business outcomes.
• Design governance models with clear accountability and executive visibility.
• Manage full program lifecycle from discovery to adoption and review.
• Monitor health using delivery metrics and intervene to address risks.
• Align diverse teams around shared outcomes and realistic commitments.
• Facilitate tradeoffs and cross-functional decision-making with stakeholders.
• Develop risk mitigation and contingency plans across programs.
• Create executive communications linking technical work to business value.
• Mentor junior staff and promote reusable program management practices.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Healthcare industry

Risk & change management

Education

Relevant degree preferred

Tools

Cloud platforms

Data analytics tools

Security/compliance

Job description

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Summary:

In this role, you will lead large, complex technical programs spanning multiple teams, systems, and business areas. You will serve as a primary program partner to senior product and engineering leaders, shaping delivery strategy, governance, client alignment, organizational readiness, and execution across highly interdependent initiatives. You will connect technical execution to business outcomes, proactively manage risk and change, and strengthen technical program management practices across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead program strategy, integrated planning, and execution for large initiatives with multiple technical workstreams, significant dependencies, or material business impact.
• Translate strategic objectives and technical roadmaps into cohesive delivery approaches with defined outcomes, milestones, sequencing, capacity assumptions, dependencies, and decision points.
• Design governance and operating models that enable timely decisions, clear accountability, and appropriate executive visibility.
• Manage the full program lifecycle, including discovery, planning, implementation, release, migration, adoption, stabilization, and outcome review.
• Assess program health using delivery metrics, operational signals, and qualitative insights, and intervene early to address risks, dependencies, and barriers.
• Align product, engineering, architecture, data, security, infrastructure, operations, and business leaders around shared outcomes and realistic commitments.
• Facilitate complex tradeoffs involving scope, sequencing, technical debt, risk, resources, quality, and time to value while maintaining productive client and cross-functional relationships.
• Anticipate systemic risks and cross-program dependencies, develop mitigation and contingency plans, and assess organizational readiness, process impacts, communication, training, support, and adoption needs.
• Develop executive-ready communications that connect technical execution to business value, risk, strategic priorities, and key decisions.
• Mentor junior staff, review program artifacts, lead retrospectives, and strengthen technical program management practices through reusable frameworks, standards, and coaching.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 5 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in technical program management, software delivery, enterprise technology, engineering operations, data and analytics, or complex transformation programs.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional technical programs involving multiple teams and senior leaders.
• Strong technical fluency in one or more areas such as software platforms, cloud, data, AI/ML, integrations, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or enterprise applications.
• Experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, healthcare data, another regulated industry, or a technology organization highly preferred.
• Advanced client management, executive communication, facilitation, and conflict navigation skills.
• Strong systems thinking, adaptability, and ability to navigate ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and guide complex decisions across technical and business teams.

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances.

• Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
• This position is also incentive eligible.

The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

Working at Vizient:

Working at Vizient means shaping the future of healthcare, every day. Alongside our clients, we're building a healthier, more human healthcare system. We connect people, data, and solutions to enable healthcare organizations to improve financial sustainability, enhance system performance, and deliver better care.

Headquartered:

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, with 11 offices across the United States, Vizient has more than 5,000 employees who bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to transforming healthcare. Together, we're solving some of the industry's most complex challenges while creating opportunities to learn, grow, and drive lasting change for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve.

Through our enterprise of companies:

• Apexus - The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration.
• aptitude - The industry's first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers.
• Kaufman Hall - Leading healthcare advisory services to support our clients in achieving financial, clinical, and operational excellence.
• Provista - Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic, and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health, and senior living.