Senior Project Manager, Florida Innovation

Job Description

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 maturity, at a pace that is sustainable
• Removing impediments and blockers or guiding the team to do so; escalating to management when appropriate
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved
• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on creating the product backlog and ongoing backlog refinement

May have direct and indirect reports and be in a position to employ and guide the project staff in a goal-oriented way within projects. The Senior Project Manager leads and demonstrates project-focused culture at Mayo Clinic and also advises/provides mentorship to other staff regarding project management practices, methods, and standards.

Performs additional job-related functions as detailed by immediate supervisor.

During the selection process you may participate in an OnDemand (pre-recorded) interview that you can complete at your convenience. During the OnDemand interview, a question will appear on your screen, and you will have time to consider each question before responding. You will have the opportunity to re-record your answer to each question - Mayo Clinic will only see the final recording. The complete interview will be reviewed by a Mayo Clinic staff member and you will be notified of next steps.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree with 10 years' experience in Project Management and business-related activities or master's degree with 7 years' experience in Project Management. Education preference: project management, business administration, agile/scrum, management. Active (unexpired) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required.

Candidates should also include any certifications they have, which do not supersede the PMP certification, which may include but are not necessarily limited to Certified Product Management, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, Risk Management Professional (RMP) and/or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP).

Authorization to work and remain in the United States, without necessity for Mayo Clinic sponsorships now, or in the future (for example, be a U.S. Citizen, national, or permanent resident, refugee, or asylee). Mayo Clinic does not participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.

About Us

Why Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans - to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.

Benefits Highlights

• Medical: Multiple plan options.
• Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
• Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
• Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
• Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.

About the Team

Just as our reputation has spread beyond our Minnesota roots, so have our locations. Today, our employees are located at our three major campuses in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, Jacksonville, Florida, Rochester, Minnesota, and at Mayo Clinic Health System campuses throughout Midwestern communities, and at our international locations. Each Mayo Clinic location is a special place where our employees thrive in both their work and personal lives. Learn more about what each unique Mayo Clinic campus has to offer, and where your best fit is.


Equal Opportunity


All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Learn more about the "EOE is the Law". Mayo Clinic participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.