Executive Director Innovation Operations

Working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Moffitt employs some of the best and brightest minds from around the world. Join a dedicated team of nearly 11,000 who are shaping the future we envision. Moffitt has been recognized as a Best and Brightest Company to Work For in the Nation and is continually named one of the Tampa Bay Times’ Top Workplaces.

Summary

The Executive Director, Innovation Operations is a senior operational leader responsible for translating Innovation's strategic priorities into coordinated execution and building the management infrastructure required to support a growing and increasingly complex innovation portfolio. The Executive Director provides day-to-day leadership across Innovation Operations, establishes operating cadence and accountability, develops team capabilities, oversees portfolio execution, and ensures priorities advance effectively across organizational boundaries.

As Innovation expands its capabilities, including the continued evolution of clinical trials, strategic partnerships, commercialization activities, and other enterprise initiatives, the Executive Director will help establish repeatable operating models and modern ways of working that enable the organization to scale without creating unnecessary administrative burden.

This role creates organizational leverage by ensuring that day-to-day execution, team development, and portfolio management occur at the appropriate leadership level, while enabling the Vice President to concentrate on enterprise relationships, operating model design, strategic priorities, modernization, and complex initiatives requiring executive-level leadership.

Operational Leadership and Execution

• Translate strategic priorities into integrated operating plans,

milestones, accountabilities, and measurable outcomes

• Lead the day-to-day operations of the Innovation Operations

function

Establish and manage effective weekly, monthly, and quarterly

operating cadences

Maintain visibility across the Innovation portfolio, including

priorities, dependencies, risks, decisions, and resource

requirements

Ensure leadership decisions are translated into accountable

execution and measurable outcomes

Identify and resolve barriers to execution and appropriately

escalate issues requiring executive intervention

Establish scalable processes and management systems that

support continued growth and complexity

Balance operational rigor with the speed and flexibility required

within an innovation environment

Team Leadership and Capability Development

Lead, coach, mentor, and develop Innovation Operations team

members

Establish clear expectations for accountability, ownership,

responsiveness, quality, judgment, and outcomes

Strengthen the team's ability to independently structure problems,

develop recommendations, make decisions within appropriate

authority, and execute

Provide consistent performance feedback and developmental

coaching

Assess workload, capacity, role clarity, and resource

requirements across the function

Identify organizational and capability gaps and develop

appropriate solutions

Build a culture of proactive problem solving, collaboration,

continuous improvement, and accountability

Portfolio and Strategic Initiative Management

Oversee execution across a diverse portfolio of Innovation

initiatives

Lead selected complex or high-priority initiatives requiring senior-

level coordination

Establish appropriate governance, decision rights, milestones,

and performance measures

Coordinate interdependencies across projects, programs, and

enterprise functions

Identify portfolio-level risks and capacity constraints and develop

mitigation strategies

Ensure new initiatives transition effectively from concept and

strategy into operational execution

Establish mechanisms for measuring outcomes rather than

activity alone

Operating Model Development and Modernization

Partner with the Vice President to design and implement scalable

operating models across Innovation

Support expansion and maturation of Innovation capabilities,

including clinical trials and other emerging operating lanes

Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, or

redesign existing processes

Lead implementation of modern ways of working that improve

transparency, accountability, collaboration, and speed

Develop repeatable frameworks that enable successful operating

approaches to scale across additional programs and capabilities

Establish appropriate metrics to evaluate operating effectiveness

and identify opportunities for improvement

Enterprise Integration

Build effective working relationships across clinical, research,

Finance, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, Marketing,

Communications, Technology, and other enterprise functions

Coordinate cross-functional execution of Innovation priorities

Identify and resolve organizational barriers that impede progress

Clarify responsibilities, decision rights, and dependencies across

organizational boundaries

Represent Innovation Operations in enterprise initiatives and

forums as appropriate

Support development of durable enterprise relationships required

to scale Innovation

Business Operation and Governance

Provide leadership oversight for financial and business

operations, contracting and transaction processes, invoicing and

financial workflows, audit readiness, operational controls,

portfolio management, performance reporting, resource planning,

and process improvement

Ensure appropriate controls, documentation standards, and

governance mechanisms are established while maintaining an

operating environment capable of moving with appropriate speed

Drive continuous improvement across operational processes and

reduce unnecessary administrative burden

Executive Decision Support

Provide concise, decision-oriented visibility into portfolio

performance, organizational risks, resource requirements, and

emerging issues

Structure complex problems and develop actionable

recommendations

Translate operational information into clear implications,

alternatives, and decisions

Support executive operating reviews and strategic discussions

Ensure issues elevated to senior leadership include appropriate

analysis and recommended actions

Salary Range

$171,267.20 - $257,400.00

Salary ranges posted for this position represent the expected base pay range for the role. Actual compensation may vary based on location and a variety of job-related factors, including experience, skills, education, and internal equity among Team Members in similar positions.

We are committed to maintaining fair and equitable pay practices and regularly review compensation to ensure alignment across our workforce.

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Careers

Working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Moffitt employs some of the best and brightest minds from around the world. Join a dedicated team of nearly 11,000 who are shaping the future we envision. Moffitt has been recognized as a Best and Brightest Company to Work For in the Nation and is continually named one of the Tampa Bay Times’ Top Workplaces.