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**City/State:** Saint Louis, Missouri

**Categories:** Support Services

**Job Status:** Full-Time

**Req ID** : 92893

**Pay Range:** $92,248.00 – $150,238.40 / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

The Innovation Lab Portfolio Manager plays a pivotal role in driving strategic innovation initiatives from concept to execution. This position is responsible for overseeing a dynamic portfolio of early-stage projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and maximizing impact through effective prioritization, resource allocation, and risk management. The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen with a passion for emerging technologies, cross-functional collaboration, human-centered design and agile methodologies. They will work closely with internal stakeholders, external partners, and innovation teams to evaluate opportunities, track progress, and deliver measurable outcomes that support long-term growth and transformation.

Overview

**BJC HealthCare** is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.

BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.

BJC’s patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

The Healthcare Innovation Lab Portfolio Managers are primarily responsible for supporting the mission of the Innovation Lab through catalyzing care delivery innovations through research and development. He or she will do this through discovery, define, develop, and delivery of innovations. This management role will lead cross-functional teams and drive our innovation strategy, portfolios, and roadmap. Coordinates with stakeholders to plan and execute successful innovation implementations and provide efficient service and support. Ensures that appropriate security, legal, and regulatory protocols are in place. Trains and coaches operational teams that provide innovative resolution of strategic opportunities. As leaders in care delivery innovation, we fundamentally change care delivery for our patients and communities based on user need and rigorous testing.

Responsibilities

+ Research and development of innovations - Conduct discovery, define, develop, and delivery of innovations that align with our strategic priorities. PM will use a combination of Agile, Human Centered Design, and other industry methods to manage their portfolio of innovation projects; create and manage evaluation criteria to objectively assess the value of the innovation to the business; manages cross-function and complex project teams and project plans; effectively communicate progress and findings for strategic decision making and to deliver on our innovation strategy.

+ Build and manage stakeholder relationships - Manage and build various stakeholder relationships to ensure the success of project implementation, testing, and evaluation; ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders from business, clinical, and executive teams; Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of an innovation and to analyze the needs that align to strategic goals.

+ Conduct innovation market research - Identification of internal problem statements and emerging innovations that may drive value to our organization; conducting research to understand potential impacts of the innovation within our ecosystem.

+ Oversight of Lab grant activities - Oversight of Lab grant activities (Big Ideas Program), including providing Lab support for grant proposals, research project execution, and potential clinical translation into operations.

+ Represent the Lab as a healthcare innovation leader - Present and represent the Innovation Lab's portfolio of work at both regional and national forums to solidify our position as a leading healthcare innovation center; participate in national forums; responsible for facilitating publications.

Minimum Requirements

Education

+ Bachelor's Degree

Experience

+ 5-10 years

Supervisor Experience

+ < 2 years

Preferred Requirements

Experience

+ 10+ years

Licenses & Certifications

+ AGILE CERTIFIED

+ Certified Scrum Master

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

+ Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

+ Pension Plan*/403(b) Plan funded by BJC

+ 401(k) plan with BJC match

+ Tuition Assistance available on first day

+ BJC Institute for Learning and Development

+ Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

+ Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to www.bjctotalrewards.com/Benefits (https://www.bjctotalrewards.org/Benefits)

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer