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IT Program Manager roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which requires your employer to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available before filing your I-140 petition. Large technology employers and government contractors sponsor this role regularly.
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Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.
Job Description
General Summary:
The IT Asset Management Program Manager is responsible for the daily and long-term strategic management of software and technology-related hardware assets within the organization. This includes planning, deploying and monitoring policies and procedures for tracking and reporting software license and/or hardware assets to ensure compliance with vendor contracts. This individual will assist in forming procurement strategies to optimize technology spending across the organization. The IT Asset Manager will also develop and implement procedures for tracking company assets to oversee quality control throughout their lifecycles. The IT Asset Manager will provide operational support and oversight to the Service Asset and Configuration Management process area by fulfilling the principal duties and responsibilities outlined below.
Key Tasks and Duties:
- Define, maintain, and update policies, procedures and work instructions for effective IT asset life cycle management (acquisition, deployment, utilization, de-installation, reallocation and disposal) of IT assets.
- Manage the maintenance of records and databases containing information regarding licenses, warranties, and service agreements for the organization's hardware and software.
- Minimizes organizational cost through product standardization and tracking.
- Track quality throughout the product lifetime.
- Work closely with IT Risk Management to support audit processes.
- Define metrics, gather data, and report effectiveness of IT asset management processes.
- Identify and act on process improvement opportunities.
- Maintain IT Asset Disposal Program.
- Monitor and measure IT Asset Management activities in attainment of established Operational Level Agreements.
- Act as a liaison with other departments as necessary to coordinate IT Asset Management requirements.
- Oversight of IT asset inventory tracking process.
- Monitor the IT asset management lifecycle.
- Generate status reports of IT assets.
- Participate in evaluation of the IT Asset management process.
- Research industry best practices and compare against HFHS’s practices in order to establish benchmarks for managing IT assets.
- Perform inventories and usage monitoring of all IT assets and present findings to management for action.
- Manages a staff of two asset analysts.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Materials Management, Management Engineering, or Business.
- Master’s Degree in a related area is preferred.
- Ten (10) years of progressive experience in IT service management, information technology, management engineering, training, project management, or other IT management experience.
- Seven (7) years of experience in a healthcare setting, preferred.
- Experience in a variety of IT and/or Service Management roles, such as Change/Incident/Problem Management, Program or Project Management.
- Working knowledge of Service Asset and Configuration Management and Change Management processes as well as public frameworks such as COBIT, TQM or ISO 9000:20000.
- Strong communication skills and comfortable interacting with multiple levels of an organization, including various levels of management.
- Excellent ability to manage multiple competing priorities and flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.
- Familiarity with service management tools (i.e. Service Now).
- High level of IT literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point) and IT Asset Management tools (SNOW).
- Excellent inventory and cost-management skills.
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, and ability to make effective presentations to senior organizational leadership.
- Ability to present ideas in a collaborative team setting and in a user-friendly language.
- Highly self-motivated and directed with keen attention to detail.
- Ability to plan, organize, monitor, and utilize IT operations resources efficiently.
- Ability to establish and meet project timelines and deliverables on implementation projects.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Required to acknowledge, respond, and fulfill customer requests in a timely manner.
- Understanding of current technologies and their relation to business units.
- Knowledge of contract management principles and basic accounting principles.
- Strong ability to multi-task while maintaining focus on changing priorities.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, task and project management, and organizational skills.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- Leads and directs the work of others.
Certifications Required:
- ITIL V3 Foundation certification.
- IT Asset Management (ITAM) certification, preferred.
Company Description
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.
Job Description
General Summary:
The IT Asset Management Program Manager is responsible for the daily and long-term strategic management of software and technology-related hardware assets within the organization. This includes planning, deploying and monitoring policies and procedures for tracking and reporting software license and/or hardware assets to ensure compliance with vendor contracts. This individual will assist in forming procurement strategies to optimize technology spending across the organization. The IT Asset Manager will also develop and implement procedures for tracking company assets to oversee quality control throughout their lifecycles. The IT Asset Manager will provide operational support and oversight to the Service Asset and Configuration Management process area by fulfilling the principal duties and responsibilities outlined below.
Key Tasks and Duties:
- Define, maintain, and update policies, procedures and work instructions for effective IT asset life cycle management (acquisition, deployment, utilization, de-installation, reallocation and disposal) of IT assets.
- Manage the maintenance of records and databases containing information regarding licenses, warranties, and service agreements for the organization's hardware and software.
- Minimizes organizational cost through product standardization and tracking.
- Track quality throughout the product lifetime.
- Work closely with IT Risk Management to support audit processes.
- Define metrics, gather data, and report effectiveness of IT asset management processes.
- Identify and act on process improvement opportunities.
- Maintain IT Asset Disposal Program.
- Monitor and measure IT Asset Management activities in attainment of established Operational Level Agreements.
- Act as a liaison with other departments as necessary to coordinate IT Asset Management requirements.
- Oversight of IT asset inventory tracking process.
- Monitor the IT asset management lifecycle.
- Generate status reports of IT assets.
- Participate in evaluation of the IT Asset management process.
- Research industry best practices and compare against HFHS’s practices in order to establish benchmarks for managing IT assets.
- Perform inventories and usage monitoring of all IT assets and present findings to management for action.
- Manages a staff of two asset analysts.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Materials Management, Management Engineering, or Business.
- Master’s Degree in a related area is preferred.
- Ten (10) years of progressive experience in IT service management, information technology, management engineering, training, project management, or other IT management experience.
- Seven (7) years of experience in a healthcare setting, preferred.
- Experience in a variety of IT and/or Service Management roles, such as Change/Incident/Problem Management, Program or Project Management.
- Working knowledge of Service Asset and Configuration Management and Change Management processes as well as public frameworks such as COBIT, TQM or ISO 9000:20000.
- Strong communication skills and comfortable interacting with multiple levels of an organization, including various levels of management.
- Excellent ability to manage multiple competing priorities and flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities.
- Familiarity with service management tools (i.e. Service Now).
- High level of IT literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point) and IT Asset Management tools (SNOW).
- Excellent inventory and cost-management skills.
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, and ability to make effective presentations to senior organizational leadership.
- Ability to present ideas in a collaborative team setting and in a user-friendly language.
- Highly self-motivated and directed with keen attention to detail.
- Ability to plan, organize, monitor, and utilize IT operations resources efficiently.
- Ability to establish and meet project timelines and deliverables on implementation projects.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Required to acknowledge, respond, and fulfill customer requests in a timely manner.
- Understanding of current technologies and their relation to business units.
- Knowledge of contract management principles and basic accounting principles.
- Strong ability to multi-task while maintaining focus on changing priorities.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, task and project management, and organizational skills.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- Leads and directs the work of others.
Certifications Required:
- ITIL V3 Foundation certification.
- IT Asset Management (ITAM) certification, preferred.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an IT Program Manager
Document your degree field precisely
PERM requires your degree to align with the IT Program Manager job duties. A business administration or computer science degree typically satisfies this, but a general studies degree may trigger an audit. Get a credential evaluation that maps your coursework to U.S. equivalents before applying.
Target employers with active PERM filings
Search DOL PERM disclosure data for companies that have filed labor certifications for IT Program Manager or related program management titles. Employers already running PERM cases understand the multi-year timeline and are less likely to withdraw sponsorship mid-process.
Search green card roles through Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter IT Program Manager postings by employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history. This cuts the research time on identifying which companies will commit to the PERM process for program management positions.
Clarify the EB-2 versus EB-3 track early
If your offer requires a master's degree or you have a bachelor's plus five years of progressive IT program management experience, you may qualify for EB-2, which can reduce priority date wait times for many countries. Confirm the intended category before your employer begins the PERM recruitment phase.
Request prevailing wage confirmation before signing
PERM locks in the OFLC Wage Search prevailing wage as your minimum offered salary throughout the green card process. Ask your employer to share the DOL prevailing wage determination for your specific job title and work location before you accept an offer.
Understand how project-based work affects your filing
IT Program Managers often move between client sites or projects. USCIS scrutinizes whether your sponsoring employer controls your day-to-day work. Consulting firms sponsoring you for client deployments should document a clear employer-employee relationship in your I-140 to avoid a Request for Evidence.
Green Card IT Program Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an IT Program Manager role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
IT Program Manager positions typically qualify for both EB-2 and EB-3 depending on how the employer defines the minimum requirements. If the role requires a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of specialized experience, EB-2 is the appropriate category. Roles requiring only a bachelor's degree and standard experience fall under EB-3. Your employer's PERM attorney sets this during the job description drafting stage.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary work authorization tied to an employer, subject to the annual lottery, and capped at three-year increments. PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no annual cap concerns at the EB-3 level for most countries. The tradeoff is time: PERM recruitment, I-140 approval, and priority date processing can take three to seven years or longer depending on your birth country, compared to H-1B decisions in a few months.
Which employers sponsor IT Program Managers for green cards most consistently?
Large technology companies, defense contractors, financial institutions, and federal IT consulting firms are the most consistent PERM sponsors for IT Program Manager roles. These employers have established immigration programs with in-house or retained counsel and budget cycles that accommodate the multi-year sponsorship commitment. Use Migrate Mate to filter postings specifically by employers with verified green card sponsorship history for program management titles.
Can my employer start my green card process while I'm on H-1B for this role?
Yes, and starting early is strongly advisable. Under AC21 provisions, if your I-140 is approved and your priority date is not current, you can extend your H-1B beyond the six-year cap in one-year or three-year increments while waiting. USCIS allows concurrent H-1B maintenance and I-140 processing, so your status doesn't lapse during the green card queue.
What happens if my employer cancels sponsorship after my I-140 is approved?
If your I-140 has been approved for 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you transfer the priority date and approved petition to a new employer offering a same or similar IT program management role. You'll need to file a new I-485 or use the porting option with USCIS. Document the similarity between the original job duties and your new role carefully to support the portability claim.