Healthcare Innovation Project Manager (Hybrid)

Stanford University faculty and research are world-renown for their innovation and excellence. Every day the future is created at Stanford which influences healthcare worldwide. The Catalyst team supports promising technology and entrepreneurial faculty to guide their technology out of the research realm, and into the clinic for real-world validation. Stanford Medicine Catalyst seeks experienced and organized Project Manager with a talent for planning complex healthcare and technology projects, problem solving, forecasting, and navigating uncharted territory with limited supervision. It is an opportunity to join a pioneering team in a fast-paced environment, and to contribute to Stanford Medicine's mission of advancing innovative medical research to have widespread impact. This is a busy, complex, and visible position requiring a high level of judgment, integrity, initiative, and follow-through. Ideal candidates will have a passion for healthcare, the pulse of the healthcare startup community, and know how to talk to, and interface with, brilliant entrepreneurs and scientists. This position represents the Stanford Medicine Strategy Office and interacts daily with executives and senior leaders from both the School of Medicine as well as Stanford Health Care adult hospital. This is a continuing position reporting to the Catalyst Director of Project Management. This position currently has no direct supervisory responsibilities. At Stanford Medicine we are inventing the future and improving patient lives every day. This position is an opportunity to have a direct impact on assisting Stanford Medicine to make a worldwide impact with our medical and research innovations, and to interact directly with an amazing array of individuals. We hope you will join us! Duties include*: Perform the full range of project management cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Independently lead and direct projects requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed. This will include planning and navigating complicated, high-profile healthcare projects with complexities including PHI Data, IRB and FDA approval process in both the clinical setting and complex, emerging technology platforms. PM will be required to manage teams where individuals range from students to tenured Stanford faculty as well as interface with potential investors as needed. This position will present project proposals to Catalyst Executives to initiate project and report out throughout effort. Project scope will range from $100k to $1M and span multiple departments across the three organizations of Stanford Medicine. Many projects are novel and require significant ground-breaking work and/or obstacle remediation for successful execution. Must be able to lead, in a matrixed fashion, many different roles across many different organizations. Direct development of an action plan, and estimate requirements for resources, including management, labor, materials, and time required to complete project. Budget and manage up to $1M projects to include initial planning stage, budget proposal request, forecasting, and management of project spend both on the SOM and SHC sides. Facilitate discussions and negotiations to drive recommendation consensus. Navigate complicated and unique situations with PIs and hospital/healthcare staff to facilitate win-win situations to both enable project deliverables and support healthcare/hospital compliance and requirements. Create alignment and engagement from all parties. Requires ability to think creatively in nuanced situations and lead the discussion in real-time to favorable outcomes for all parties. Develop and help execute comprehensive change management strategy and communication plan relative to project scope and stakeholders; orchestrate and lead change management methodologies underlying project success. This frequently includes defining commercialization plans and go-to-market strategies consistent with the opportunities desired by the innovation teams and Catalyst management. Identify, engage with and create aligned plans with all levels of stakeholders for each unique project. Stakeholders will include SHC EVPs, clinic operational staff, PIs, core project team, and executive. Complete all components of project management including scope identification, stakeholder communication planning and management, FDA/IRB review process management, risk-manage, control and report on risk associated with complicated projects, synthesize complex technical data and drive decisions. Present directly to Catalyst Executive Leadership as well as senior executives of Stanford Healthcare Stanford Children's Health and others as well as manage million-dollar project budgets, with multi-million-dollar cumulative budgets.

Stanford University faculty and research are world-renown for their innovation and excellence. Every day the future is created at Stanford which influences healthcare worldwide.