Strategic Initiatives Manager Ii | Msk Direct

 The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. One of the world’s most respected comprehensive centers devoted exclusively to cancer, we have been recognized as one of the top two cancer hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.

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MSK Direct is a digitally-enabled health benefits solution that helps members around the country benefit from MSK’s world-renowned expertise in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. With MSK Direct, members have access to in-person and virtual services from MSK doctors and a dedicated cancer support team, including nurses, social workers, and Care Advisors to guide them throughout their journey with cancer.

We are recruiting for a Strategic Initiatives Manager II to help manage this highly transparent program’s continued growth. Reporting to the Director of Strategic Business Initiatives, this opportunity is responsible for supporting the planning, coordination, and execution of the MSK Direct program and its related pivotal initiatives.

• Synthesize information across meetings and discussions with different collaborators in order to promote communication, identify barriers, and develop solutions to obstacles
• Develop and implement a workplan for the program and iterate upon that workplan to account for new information
• Serve as the project lead and work independently on small, focused initiatives before handing off to others
• Develop agendas for weekly meetings, facilitate meetings, send out minutes, and follow-up on results
• Develop communication collateral for administrative and clinical leaders
• Support the program’s strategic planning process
• Work with colleagues across business development, partner engagement, product, operations/access, marketing, legal, information technology, finance to ensure alignment on the work and accountability to achievements

You have:

• Comfort with working amidst ambiguity and abilities that help develop clarity and resilience for other team members
• A self-starter that holds yourself accountable and comfortable holding others accountable
• Excellent program and project management skills including previous experience managing a large-scale program or projects with many sophisticated moving parts
• Strong interpersonal skills when working with and influencing colleagues and leaders; experience facilitating virtually and in person

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