Facilitate Design Thinking workshops to identify business, customer, operational, and technology challenges.
Lead ideation sessions, innovation labs, and problem-solving workshops across functions.
Coach teams on human-centered design, innovation methods, and creative problem-solving.
Develop and maintain innovation frameworks, toolkits, templates, and best practices.
Support business teams in identifying, refining, and validating innovation opportunities.

Plan and manage enterprise-wide innovation programs, campaigns, ideathons, and hackathons.
Lead internal innovation challenges that encourage employee participation and idea generation.
Coordinate external hackathons with technology partners, startups, universities, and industry organizations.
Manage end-to-end logistics, communications, judging processes, mentoring, and outcome tracking.
Establish innovation communities and champion networks across the organization.

Manage the innovation intake process and evaluate ideas against defined criteria.
Drive selected ideas through discovery, prototyping, proof of concept, pilot, and implementation phases.
Coordinate cross-functional teams to develop and deliver innovation solutions.
Track progress, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes for innovation initiatives.
Support solution adoption and transition into business operations.
Maintain innovation portfolio dashboards
Measure ROI, productivity and customer impact

Identify relevant technology trends, tools, vendors, and startup solutions.
Coordinate collaboration opportunities with external innovation partners.
Support evaluation and experimentation with emerging technologies including AI, automation, analytics, and digital health capabilities.

Develop innovation success stories, communications, and engagement materials.
Track participation, implementation rates, and business impact metrics.
Present program updates and innovation outcomes to business leaders and stakeholders.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Healthcare, Engineering, Technology, Business or related field
8+ years of experience in healthcare IT, digital transformation, product innovation or consulting
Experience in payer, provider, care, population health or healthcare services environments preferred
Experience with a leading management consulting or professional services organization is strongly preferred.

Experience in healthcare, regulated industries, or shared services environments is desirable.
Strong collaboration skills, and experience scaling innovation programs is preferred.
Strong communication skills and comfort working with both business and technical teams.

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