Project Manager, IT Program and Project Management

Are you the person who gets genuinely excited about a well-architected network diagram? Do you speak fluent “uptime” and know your way around a change management window? We need you.

We’re looking for a Technical Project Manager who can bridge the gap between infrastructure teams and the business, keeping complex, multi-workstream projects on track without losing the plot (or the sense of humor) along the way.

What IT Program & Project Management contributes to Cardinal Health

Transformation enables the organization to drive complex and transformational programs through disciplined project/program management and change management strategies.

IT Program & Project Management applies Information Technology knowledge and experience to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures, and timing for complex projects within the Information Technology function. This family organizes project teams, establishes project schedules and individual responsibilities, and determines resource requirements. This job family manages project budgets and reports on the status of project cost, timing and staffing. IT Program & Project Management also ensures adherence to internal external quality standards and integrates vendor tasks and deliverables into project plans.

Responsibilities

• End to end delivery of infrastructure focused projects: think data center migrations, network upgrades, cloud transitions, security enhancements, AI initiatives, and everything in between
• Building and maintaining project plans, schedules, and budgets that actually reflect reality
• Translating between engineers who live in the weeds and stakeholders who just want to know “when will this be done”
• Risk and dependency tracking before they become 2am incidents
• Vendor and cross functional team coordination
• Own project status reporting, keeping it clear, current, and useful (not just a red/yellow/green exercise)
• Lead steering committee meetings and other key touchpoints, keeping leadership informed and decisions moving
• Manage stakeholders across technical and business teams, building trust in both directions
• Serve as the communication hub for your projects, translating updates, risks, and decisions for the right audience at the right altitude

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of project management experience, with a track record in infrastructure, IT operations, or technical environments preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field preferred
• Solid grasp of infrastructure concepts: networking, servers, cloud platforms, data centers, security basics preferred
• Experience with project methodologies preferred
• Comfort with PPM tools preferred
• Strong communication skills and the ability to keep a room of engineers and executives aligned preferred
• A knack for staying calm when the migration doesn’t go exactly to plan preferred
• PMP, CAPM, or similar certification preferred
• Experience with ITIL or change management frameworks preferred
• A genuine curiosity about how systems work, not just how projects run preferred

Anticipated salary range: $80,900 - $127,050

Bonus eligible: No

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 09/07/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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