Healthcare Insights - PMO Director

Huron • Chicago, IL

13d • $175,000 - $225,000 • Remote

About The Position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. The Director of the Program Management Office (PMO) for Healthcare Insights will be responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously evolving program management for a large, complex, and rapidly scaling program. This initiative is the result of a critical, strategic investment for Huron, focused on building and operating an advanced analytics and AI platform. This role will serve as the central nervous system for program execution—driving clarity, alignment, and momentum across highly distributed teams spanning Engineering, Product Management, Data & Analytics, and Consulting. This leader will operate as a strategic partner to senior leadership, translating general program objectives into executable plans, while leveraging modern tooling and AI-enabled approaches to improve cross team coordination, transparency, accountability and stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate is a seasoned PMO professional who is equally comfortable operating at the executive level and rolling up their sleeves to design pragmatic operating rhythms that work in fast moving, cross-functional environments.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in program or portfolio management, with a significant portion spent leading large, distributed programs.
• Demonstrated success managing complex initiatives that span Engineering, Product Management, and other technical and non‑technical functions.
• Experience operating at the Director (or equivalent) level, with regular exposure to C‑suite and senior executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to thrive in environments with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and competing priorities.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive level storytelling and presentation.
• Role is predominantly remote, with expectation of occasional travel for internal or client meetings.

Nice To Haves

• Hands on experience applying AI or advanced automation to improve program management effectiveness, communication, or decision making.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence without authority.
• High degree of intellectual curiosity, with a demonstrated willingness to deeply learn new domains, technologies, and business models—particularly in healthcare, data, analytics, or product led environments.
• Collaborative, team oriented leadership style that builds trust across functions.

Responsibilities

• Program & Portfolio Leadership
• Stand up and lead the PMO function for the Healthcare Insights program, defining governance, operating cadence, and execution standards appropriate for a large, distributed portfolio.
• Own end-to-end program planning, dependency management, risk identification, and delivery tracking across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, and domain leaders to ensure alignment between roadmaps, capacity, and strategic priorities.
• Proactively identify execution risks, tradeoffs, and constraints, and surface clear options and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Leverage AI-powered tools and techniques to streamline project management workflows, including planning, status reporting, dependency tracking, and risk analysis.
• Develop project management playbooks, tools, and artifacts to enable each team across the program to manage effectively, identify risks early and proactively, and communicate upward and outward on a timely basis.
• Use AI to improve cross-team communication, context gathering, and synthesis of complex information for leadership and stakeholder audiences.
• Stakeholder Communication
• Drive the creation of high quality, executive ready artifacts (status updates, readouts, dashboards, and presentations) that emphasize outcomes and accountability over activity
• Translate complex technical and operational topics into clear, concise narratives tailored to different stakeholder audiences.
• Facilitate executive forums, steering committees, and key decision meetings with confidence and credibility.
• Operating Model & Continuous Improvement
• Design and evolve PMO processes that balance rigor with flexibility, enabling teams to move quickly without losing accountability.
• Bring structure to ambiguity by turning loosely defined goals and problem statements into actionable plans, milestones, and success metrics.
• Foster a team oriented culture focused on collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership of outcomes.
• Continuously assess what is and is not working, and adapt the PMO approach as the program matures.

Benefits

• Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
• Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed