PMO Lead

Summary

As an ​PMO Lead at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve — a community’s most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

Your role in our mission

Within this role, you’ll serve as the PMO Lead, responsible for leading and aligning the Project Management team, and keeping projects moving as Gainwell helps clients deliver better health and human services outcomes through technology and innovation.

• Creates and implements complex project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for a large sized or multiple projects of high complexity, ensuring alignment with key release milestones, environment readiness, and architectural dependencies.
• Determines need for and impact of changes in scope of project and makes and implements recommendations based on determinations, including collaboration with technical architects to assess impacts to system design, integrations, and downstream environments.
• Gains concurrence, approval, and consensus from stakeholders regarding the various project aspects, adjusts accordingly.
• Identifies appropriate resources and staffs projects.
• Organizes project team(s) members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives, including major release timelines and technical design dependencies.
• Acts as the point of contact with client project management. Identifies, when and as appropriate, staffing changes or needs as project progresses.
• Communicate with the client, company and project team leadership, measuring and sharing project metrics/status; recommend program changes as needed. 
• Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met.
• May act outside of established policies as necessary. Oversees the ongoing review of project(s) status; identifies risks, including risks associated with release readiness, architectural constraints, or infrastructure dependencies.
• Develops, recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions and processes, and implements as appropriate, by partnering with cross-functional team leads.
• Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and approved technical designs.
• Identifies or gathers information regarding possible solutions, working with technical architects to evaluate solution feasibility and scalability.
• Participates in proposal efforts and sales calls, partnering with architects to shape technically viable and competitive solutions.
• Manage a small team of Project Managers as their people leader.

What we're looking for

• 9+ years of experience managing complex projects, programs or initiatives through a full project management life cycle, with 3 or more years of Medicaid or Medicare experience preferred
• Expertise with project management methodology such as Catalyst or Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Process & Governance Expertise to support the execution of project methodology knowledge, Software Development Lifecycle including release cycles, and Standardization & Compliance with configuration and change control awareness.
• Modern understanding of budget development, control and assurance methods, and project management software 
• Ability to lead and translate the broader objectives of a program into clear and achievable project scope and milestones that can be worked toward
• Leadership skills to lead coaching, mentoring and training of staff, as well as guiding the work of junior colleagues.
• A strong executive presenter who communicates ideas clearly 
• Influencer that who can clearly communicate project priorities and motivate direct and indirect networks and stakeholders to action

What you should expect in this role

• Remote-based opportunity within the United States
• Opportunities to travel through your work (0-10%)
• Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
• The deadline to submit applications for this posting is 8/30/2026