Program Manager - Discovery Hub

Mayo Clinic•Rochester, MN

1d•$127,961 - $185,515

About The Position

Mayo Clinic is a top-ranked healthcare provider dedicated to patient needs and employee well-being, offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career advancement. The Program Manager - Discovery Hub role is for a highly organized, proactive professional experienced in managing complex, cross-functional initiatives within healthcare, research, biotechnology, or technology. This individual will support executive leadership by understanding Mayo Clinic Platform's strategic priorities, fostering collaboration, and driving the execution of high-priority initiatives. The role involves working closely with the Chief Medical Officer and Mayo Clinic Platform leadership to coordinate strategic priorities, facilitate communication, prepare executive communications, and ensure follow-through on decisions. The successful candidate will be comfortable collaborating with diverse professionals including physicians, AI scientists, data scientists, engineers, researchers, and administrative leaders, bringing structure and operational excellence to a dynamic portfolio.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree in education, business, healthcare administration, or related field and 10 years of related or increasing experience; or master's degree in business administration, healthcare administration, public health, PMP or related field and a minimum of 6 years related experience.
Travel up to 25% of the time.
Knowledge and application of technology processes and standard product management methodologies such as Agile/Scrum.
Moderate technical skills or willingness to learn hyperscale platform tools associated with environment maintenance and monitoring.
Demonstrated competencies in strategic and systems thinking, decision-making, leading, and change management.

Nice To Haves

A willingness to operate in ambiguity but derive towards clarity for achieving outcomes.
Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complex items into digestible and understandable terms for different audiences.
Strong ability to build collaboration with diverse teams and drive competing priorities to mutual positive outcomes.

Responsibilities

Coordinate and track strategic initiatives, action items, and workstreams across the Chief Medical Officer's portfolio, ensuring timely execution of key priorities.
Coordinate strategic collaborations with academic, healthcare, and industry partners, ensuring alignment on priorities, milestones, deliverables, and next steps.
Partner with physicians, AI scientists, data scientists, engineers, researchers, operational leaders, and administrative stakeholders to facilitate collaboration and drive execution across multidisciplinary initiatives.
Develop a working knowledge of Mayo Clinic Platform capabilities and Discovery Hub priorities to effectively coordinate scientific, technical, and operational activities.
Build and maintain strong relationships across Mayo Clinic Platform, Mayo Clinic departments, and external collaborators.
Serve as the central point of coordination for high-priority initiatives, proactively tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, and follow-up actions.
Prepare executive communications, presentations, briefing materials, and leadership updates for internal and external audiences.
Coordinate leadership meetings, agendas, and follow-up to ensure timely execution of decisions and commitments.
Navigate institutional processes and coordinate activities across governance, legal, compliance, security, research administration, and other cross-functional teams as needed.
Assess operational needs and help develop processes that improve coordination, communication, and execution across strategic initiatives.
Represent the Chief Medical Officer and Mayo Clinic Platform on cross-functional workgroups, committees, and strategic initiatives, as appropriate.
Foster a collaborative, organized, and accountable environment that supports innovation and effective execution across diverse multidisciplinary teams.