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Healthcare Insights - PMO Director

Lensa
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/29/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/26/2026
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Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you'll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

The Director of the Program Management Office (PMO) for Healthcare Insights will be responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously evolving program management for a large, complex, and rapidly scaling program. This initiative is the result of a critical, strategic investment for Huron, focused on building and operating an advanced analytics and AI platform. This role will serve as the central nervous system for program execution-driving clarity, alignment, and momentum across highly distributed teams spanning Engineering, Product Management, Data & Analytics, and Consulting.

This leader will operate as a strategic partner to senior leadership, translating general program objectives into executable plans, while leveraging modern tooling and AI-enabled approaches to improve cross team coordination, transparency, accountability and stakeholder communication.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned PMO professional who is equally comfortable operating at the executive level and rolling up their sleeves to design pragmatic operating rhythms that work in fast moving, cross-functional environments.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Portfolio Leadership

  • Stand up and lead the PMO function for the Healthcare Insights program, defining governance, operating cadence, and execution standards appropriate for a large, distributed portfolio.
  • Own end-to-end program planning, dependency management, risk identification, and delivery tracking across multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, and domain leaders to ensure alignment between roadmaps, capacity, and strategic priorities.
  • Proactively identify execution risks, tradeoffs, and constraints, and surface clear options and recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Leverage AI-powered tools and techniques to streamline project management workflows, including planning, status reporting, dependency tracking, and risk analysis.
  • Develop project management playbooks, tools, and artifacts to enable each team across the program to manage effectively, identify risks early and proactively, and communicate upward and outward on a timely basis.
  • Use AI to improve cross-team communication, context gathering, and synthesis of complex information for leadership and stakeholder audiences.

Stakeholder Communication

  • Drive the creation of high quality, executive ready artifacts (status updates, readouts, dashboards, and presentations) that emphasize outcomes and accountability over activity
  • Translate complex technical and operational topics into clear, concise narratives tailored to different stakeholder audiences.
  • Facilitate executive forums, steering committees, and key decision meetings with confidence and credibility.

Operating Model & Continuous Improvement

  • Design and evolve PMO processes that balance rigor with flexibility, enabling teams to move quickly without losing accountability.
  • Bring structure to ambiguity by turning loosely defined goals and problem statements into actionable plans, milestones, and success metrics.
  • Foster a team oriented culture focused on collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership of outcomes.
  • Continuously assess what is and is not working, and adapt the PMO approach as the program matures.

Required Qualifications

  • 10 years of experience in program or portfolio management, with a significant portion spent leading large, distributed programs.
  • Demonstrated success managing complex initiatives that span Engineering, Product Management, and other technical and non-technical functions.
  • Experience operating at the Director (or equivalent) level, with regular exposure to C-suite and senior executive stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to thrive in environments with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and competing priorities.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive level storytelling and presentation.
  • Role is predominantly remote, with expectation of occasional travel for internal or client meetings.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands on experience applying AI or advanced automation to improve program management effectiveness, communication, or decision making.
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to influence without authority.
  • High degree of intellectual curiosity, with a demonstrated willingness to deeply learn new domains, technologies, and business models-particularly in healthcare, data, analytics, or product led environments.
  • Collaborative, team oriented leadership style that builds trust across functions.

What Success Looks Like (first 90 Days)

  • The PMO is operating at program scale, effectively coordinating multiple concurrent workstreams tied to solution unification, horizontal teams, and increased AI maturity.
  • Dependencies and risks across domains and horizontal teams are proactively identified, managed, and communicated well ahead of impacting delivery.
  • An accountability tool kit has been implemented, incorporating data across multiple sources to provide a 360-degree view of success
  • Leadership discussions have shifted from "what's happening" to informed decision making about tradeoffs, sequencing, and investment, supported by high quality- PMO insights.
  • AI-enabled- program management practices are measurably improving:
  • Speed and quality of planning and re-planning
  • Executive communication and stakeholder alignment
  • Signal-to-noise ratio in reporting and presentations
  • Operating rhythms are refined to support higher delivery speed without loss of control, enabling teams to move faster as complexity increases.

The estimated base salary for this job is $175,000 - $225,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron's annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron's pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $218,750 - $303,750 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron's benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Director

Country

United States of America

At Huron, we're redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client's challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work...together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.

Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.

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