Centene Corporation is transforming the health of our communities, one person at a time. They are seeking a Program Manager II to oversee the enterprise onboarding transformation program, focusing on creating a personalized onboarding experience for new hires across various employee segments.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end to end design and implementation of persona based onboarding journeys for new hires across four distinct employee segments
- Lead the configuration and deployment of Workday Onboarding Planner including task sequencing, stage gating, and persona routing
- Gather requirements from HR, IT, Compliance, and business stakeholders to define onboarding content, milestones, and success metrics for each stage and persona
- Build and maintain a comprehensive onboarding asset tracker across all personas, stages, and content owners
- Design and deploy employee survey instruments to measure onboarding effectiveness at each stage
- Coordinate steering committee meetings, prepare executive ready materials, and communicate program status to senior leadership including the CHRO
- Partner with the Learning & Development team to align onboarding content with Learning Journeys and Centene University curriculum
- Identify and mitigate risks across workstreams, resolve cross functional dependencies, and escalate issues as needed
- Create and maintain detailed program documentation including project plans, RACI matrices, meeting minutes, action items, and risk management plans
- Monitor program deliverables to ensure adherence to quality standards, timelines, and stakeholder expectations
- Drive change management and adoption strategies to ensure leaders and new hires engage with the new onboarding experience
- Manage vendor relationships related to onboarding content and technology (e.g., external learning platforms)
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or related field or equivalent experience required
- 3+ years of program management or project management experience required
- Experience with HR technology platforms (Workday preferred) required
- Experience designing or managing onboarding, talent management, or employee experience programs strongly preferred
- Healthcare industry experience preferred