Senior Project Manager, Florida Innovation

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  Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
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  HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
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  Competitive retirement package to secure your future.

The Senior Project Manager, Florida Innovation plays a leadership role within the Florida Innovation team, managing complex early-stage innovation portfolios while helping shape the structure, consistency, and reach of innovation support across the campus. In addition to serving as a generalist and innovation sherpa, this role operates with greater autonomy and strategic responsibility, supporting higher-complexity initiatives, mentoring others, and strengthening integration between innovation, practice priorities, and enterprise partners.

This role balances hands-on project leadership with system-building, ensuring Florida Innovation remains nimble, embedded, and responsive to evolving clinical and strategic needs.

• Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in innovation, healthcare, research, or technology environments.
• Strong strategic thinking, program management, and influence-without-authority capabilities.
• Ability to synthesize technical, clinical, and operational information into clear recommendations.
• Experience managing teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Lead a portfolio of early-stage innovations with higher complexity, cross-departmental scope, or strategic importance.
• Serve as a senior advisor to innovators, helping teams navigate ambiguity, tradeoffs, and decision points.
• Independently develop milestone-based plans, learning agendas, and early validation strategies across diverse innovation types.
• Identify risks, barriers, and pivot points; recommend course corrections based on learning and feasibility.
• Coordinate closely with legal, IP, finance, digital, research, and enterprise innovation partners to reduce delays and improve throughput.
• Support funding identification efforts and assist with internal or external applications and reporting, as appropriate.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to Program Managers and coordinators within the team.
• Contribute to innovation portfolio insights, priority-setting discussions, and leadership-ready reporting.
• Help design and refine scalable innovation programs, intake models, and engagement strategies for Florida.
• Represent Florida Innovation in enterprise forums, academic collaborations, and cross-site initiatives as needed.

The Senior Project Manager (PM) works independently, assuming primary responsibility for planning, directing, coordinating and delivering project activities through the entire project life cycle (from initiation through handoff to customer) that are major/complex/business critical. The Senior PM is responsible to lead project objectives and completion on time, on budget, and in conformance to Mayo Clinic project management methodologies and standards.

The Senior PM will lead large projects that have site- or enterprise-level strategic importance. Project work has high to very high risk and risk interdependencies, multiple interrelationships, and may have major costs associated. Responsible for managing established budget. Leads and provides direction in the development and tracking of project budgets. Position requires strict adherence to budget management and guidelines of both the assigned department and the institution.

Independently leads problem-solving and decision-making activities, within the scope of the project and change management process, taking reasonable and prudent actions to accomplish agreed upon project objectives. Leverages many years of experience to manage extensive projects and is highly competent in the implementation of project results. Uses advanced negotiations skills that are characterized by innovative thinking.

The use and application of Agile methodologies is important to this role. Many of the items important to an Agile process are not unique to Agile. This individual may be responsible for monitoring scrum processes and scrum meetings. They may work to increase efficiency, motivate the team, and advocate for changes that will ensure quality and timeliness. Leading project teams may include the following not already specified above:

• Guiding teams on Agile practices and values to implement critical projects
• Assessing maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of…