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Manager - Pioneering Sciences

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, MNFull-time$105–158K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$105–158K/yr
Location
Rochester, MN
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Manager partners with administrative leaders, physicians, and scientists to lead operational and administrative functions aligned with strategic priorities. The role balances department operations with transformation work, including initiatives in AI Scientific enablement and MCP Discovery Science. The Manager leads teams, supports operational excellence and financial sustainability, and helps shape new operating models across scientific, technical, and administrative areas.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

LeadershipManagementOperationsFinanceCommunicationChange ManagementScientific and Technical Partnership

Qualifications

Master's Degree or Bachelor's DegreeMaster's +1 or Bachelor's +5 YearsScientific or Technical Environment Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Why Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans (https://jobs.mayoclinic.org/benefits/) – to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.

Benefits Highlights

  • Medical: Multiple plan options.

  • Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.

  • Vision: Affordable plan with national network.

  • Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.

  • Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.

Responsibilities

Position Overview

The Manager partners with administrative leaders, physicians, and scientists to lead and coordinate operational and administrative functions in alignment with strategic priorities. The Manager has strong leadership, operational and process improvement capabilities.

Embodying our Mayo Clinic values, the Manager plays a pivotal role within shields and departments managing teams and service lines.

The manager will have a broad operational portfolio, with emphasis on transformation advances:

  • A portfolio spanning approximately [60%] department operations and [40%] transformation work, balancing operational management with the design and implementation of the future-state organization.

  • Scope requiring a scientific or technical background to effectively partner with scientific, technical and administrative leaders across the portfolio.

  • Emphasis on aligning departmental operations, emerging opportunities and transformation priorities with the transition of former departments and stand-up of new departments.

  • Leadership and partnership on transformation initiatives in AI Scientific enablement, MCP Discovery Science and across broader industry-facing spaces, helping shape new operating models and strategic opportunities.

Responsibilities

Vision and Strategy

  • Lead and manage the team to operationalize the vision, executing goals and outcome-based objectives.

  • Actively contribute to the development of priorities and action plans.

  • Serve as a liaison between front-line supervisors and staff and leadership to ensure strategic alignment, staff engagement, and open, transparent, bidirectional communication.

  • Develop relationships externally in support of Mayo Clinic’s goals and objectives.

People and Culture

  • Create and foster high performing, engaged teams, aligned to a culture of safety and Mayo Clinic values.

  • Lead and mentor team through new and changing situations.

  • Effectively manage team performance and difficult conversations with compassion and respect.

  • Embed equity, inclusion, and diversity principles into team, across hiring, developing, and coaching staff.

  • Coach, mentor, and develop direct reports and other allied health staff to foster engagement, life-long learning, and professional growth.

Operational Excellence

  • Provide leadership with a primary focus on operational excellence, implementation, and staff engagement.

  • Apply operational knowledge, critical thinking, sound judgment, and problem solving in an integrated, matrixed environment.

  • Effectively manage staff assignments to meet fluctuating workload and business needs.

  • Embrace and drive operational execution with a sense of pace and urgency. Coordinate and direct staff to ensure smooth operations and efficiencies.

  • Engage in systems design, process improvement, and optimization to improve and simplify operations and outcomes.

  • Facilitate quality, safety, regulatory, and service excellence.

  • Manage projects and lead multidisciplinary teams including financial analysis, problem solving, and data-driven decision-making.

Transformation and Innovation

  • Develop a global mindset, and continuously invest in learning and gaining knowledge inter and intra industry.

  • Demonstrate continuous learning of emerging technologies and data literacy for departmental and organizational benefit.

  • Demonstrate forward-thinking and trend analysis to anticipate future needs and opportunities.

  • Encourage team to pursue new approaches and demonstrate business agility.

Financial and Business Acumen

  • Demonstrate business acumen and apply financial rigor in managing financial results.

  • Assist in managing budget for area of responsibility.

  • Manage strategic growth to include staffing and other resources.

  • Implement, manage, and operationalize business plans and deliverables.

  • Represent and communicate big picture thinking with business partners and stakeholders.

  • Support effective decision making and ensure long term sustainability through deep understanding of healthcare, education, and research finance models, including revenue drivers, to support effective decision making and ensure long term sustainability.

*Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This position is not eligible for F-1 OPT STEM extension.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree with a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience or bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience required.

  • Operational experience must include demonstrated competency in leadership, management, operations, finance, communication, and change management methodologies.

Additional Qualifications

  • Experience operating in a scientific, research, technical, data/AI, or similarly complex knowledge-based environment, with demonstrated ability to partner effectively with scientific and technical leaders.

Exemption Status

Exempt

Compensation Detail

$105,060 - $157,643 / year

Benefits Eligible

Yes

Schedule

Full Time

Hours/Pay Period

80

Schedule Details

Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

International Assignment

No

Site Description

Just as our reputation has spread beyond our Minnesota roots, so have our locations. Today, our employees are located at our three major campuses in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, Jacksonville, Florida, Rochester, Minnesota, and at Mayo Clinic Health System campuses throughout Midwestern communities, and at our international locations. Each Mayo Clinic location is a special place where our employees thrive in both their work and personal lives. Learn more about what each unique Mayo Clinic campus has to offer, and where your best fit is. (https://jobs.mayoclinic.org/alllocations)

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Learn more about the "EOE is the Law" (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) . Mayo Clinic participates in E-Verify (https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf) and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Recruiter

Chad Musolf

Equal opportunity

As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer Mayo Clinic is committed to creating an inclusive environment that values the diversity of its employees and does not discriminate against any employee or candidate. Women, minorities, veterans, people from the LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply to join our teams. Reasonable accommodations to access job openings or to apply for a job are available.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,979 open Operations Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$105–158K/yr
  • Minnesota median$111–154K/yr42 salary ranges
  • US median$105–150K/yr2,220 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $131K, is close to the Minnesota median midpoint ($133K) — in the middle half of Operations Management salary ranges in Minnesota.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 57 open Operations Management jobs in Minnesota and 3,979 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Operations Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,009 postings).
Education
857 of the 3,979 open Operations Management jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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