Principal, Delivery Specialist

Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You'll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You'll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

Summary

Gainwell is looking for an experienced Principal Delivery Specialist to lead the successful delivery of large, complex programs. This role partners closely with senior clients and internal teams to define scope, manage budgets and timelines, mitigate risk, and ensure high-quality, compliant outcomes. You'll serve as a trusted program leader and subject matter expert, contributing to strategic initiatives, proposals, and contract negotiations while driving results across multiple interdependent projects. This is a high-impact, hybrid opportunity for a proven leader ready to shape outcomes and grow their career at Gainwell.

Your role in our mission

• Leads development of uniquely complex work statements, scope/priority definition and the creation of budgets and schedules for several large complex global programs.
• Develops documents in accordance with appropriate standards and customer requirements and needs.
• Identifies global implications and determines appropriate response to those implications.
• Defines overall high-level program plans and their interdependencies, manages communications between projects, and sets realistic objectives for project managers within a program. \
• Documents program progress including implementation, timelines, issues, risks, and successes to maintain program course.
• Determines changes and/or corrections and implements as appropriate or approved.
• Maintains grade and quality of program deliverables within defined and agreed upon program requirements.
• Oversees adjustments and changes necessary. Communicates with client senior management to manage expectations, maintain smooth operations, and build client relationships.
• Communicates program goals and processes to the program team to ensure program continuity.
• Contributes to major proposal efforts and creates strategies to establish business in new markets or in current accounts.
• Functions as a subject matter expert and provides project management methodology consulting to business unit personnel.
• Participates in contract negotiations with clients, sub-contractors and vendors.
• Balances program resources (people, budget, material, time) to optimize program objectives for several large, complex, global projects.
• Monitors and reports budgetary concerns to achieve financial and performance objectives for several large, complex, global programs.
• Manages legal, contractual, and customer processes to ensure compliance with agreed upon requirements.
• Understands and determines course of action to comply with global or country specific regulations.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Master's degree in related field preferred
• Fifteen or more years of project management experience
• Experience working with project management methodology such as Catalyst including budget development, project planning, control and assurance methodologies including earned value management, project management software and finance and accounting concepts and practices

What you should expect in this role

• Hybrid position at our Sacramento, CA office
• 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 February 27, 2025.

The pay range for this position is $107,900.00 - $154,100.00 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits , and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You'll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines "wages" and "wage rates" to include "all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.