AVP, Project & Portfolio Management (PMO) - REMOTE

About the Role

Provides strategy and leadership to the team responsible for enterprise project and portfolio management activities. Oversees project and portfolio management across mergers and acquisitions (M&A), growth, and other business initiatives—ensuring successful delivery of programs while maintaining strong financial governance. Demonstrates oversight for technology project portfolios, supports quality assurance, capital planning and budgeting efforts, and ensures delivery excellence.

Responsibilities

• Supports strategy development, vision, and direction for project and portfolio management activities across the Molina enterprise.
• Demonstrates accountability for performance and financial results, and keeps executive leadership apprised.
• Leads cross-functional teams supporting delivery of multiple project portfolios, including dependencies, risks, timelines, and execution across organizational initiatives.
• Manages portfolios to include technology, business, change initiatives, and integration efforts.
• Ensures multiple programs and projects are synchronized in alignment with organizational priorities, governance standards, and business objectives.
• Leads intake processes, prioritization, protocols, and escalation pathways.
• Oversees quality and risk management across projects.
• Manages portfolio delivery across multiple functions, including but not limited to quality, risk adjustment, and enterprise information management (EIM).
• Demonstrates understanding of multiple projects and relationships between projects and represents as an expert in project management methods and techniques.
• Assesses projects for potential problem areas; investigates, develops, and evaluates solutions to a wide range of complex problems spanning across multiple projects within portfolios.
• Provides oversight into go-live technology initiatives and other programs.
• Supports artificial intelligence (AI), HR, technology, and transformation initiatives.
• Introduces improvements to portfolio planning practices, including clear scope delineation to ensure robust and accurate initial cost estimates.
• Provides guidance to ensure alignment between portfolio delivery plans and financial commitments.
• Collaborates closely with stakeholders to develop functional/SIT, regression, E2E, and performance test scope.
• Monitors test execution, identifies risk and mitigation plans, and communicates with project stakeholders.
• Leverages industry-leading testing trends and tools, such as test automation, AI, and synthetic data generation.
• Hires, trains, manages, and evaluates team member performance—provides coaching, development, and recognition.
• Ensures ongoing appropriate staff training, holds regular team meetings, and drives communication and collaboration.
• Develops and sustains a high-performance team dedicated to best-in-class solutions; responsible for attracting, developing, and retaining top-tier talent to support strategy and long-term business objectives.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of progressive leadership experience in health care operations, technology, integration, and project and portfolio management, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• At least 5 years of management/leadership experience.
• Deep project and portfolio management experience.
• Advanced Agile, Jira, and AI experience.
• Strong experience supporting quality assurance and process improvement initiatives.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across a highly matrixed organization.
• Highly organized and self-motivated.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Microsoft Office suite/applicable software programs proficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Formal training in project management.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Six Sigma green belt certification.

Pay

Pay Range: $161,914 - $220,732 / ANNUAL. Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level.