[Hiring] Senior Consultant – PLM Strategy @Cardinal Health

Role Description

The Sr Consultant – PLM Strategy is accountable for defining, owning, and continuously improving the end-to-end portfolio lifecycle management (PLM) framework across Cardinal Health’s Global Medical Products and Distribution business (GMPD). This role establishes standard processes, tools, templates, and governance to ensure consistent decision-making from intake through delivery, optimization, and retirement of initiatives, products, or investments. The role acts as the single owner of lifecycle standards, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives, transparency across portfolios, and disciplined execution at scale.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Lifecycle & Governance Ownership
  • Own and maintain the end-to-end portfolio lifecycle model, including lifecycle stages, entry/exit criteria, decision gates, and required artifacts.
  • Reestablish and operationalize the Portfolio Review Board, ensuring integration with enterprise initiative prioritization and investment decisioning.
  • Define governance cadence, decision rights, and escalation paths across portfolio and category forums.
  • Ensure lifecycle governance aligns to strategic planning, financial processes, and execution models.
• Category Roadmaps & Product Classification
  • Own and update guidance and templates for annual category roadmaps, ensuring consistency, clarity, and strategic alignment.
  • Lead roadmap enhancements supporting: Category re‑classification for major “New” offerings and “Bundle‑level” planning.
  • Maintain and continuously enhance the product and category classification schema, ensuring accurate representation across planning, reporting, and analytics.
• Category Operating Unit (COU) Operating Model
  • Support the advancement and maturation of the COU operating model, including:
    • Maturity assessments and capability benchmarking.
    • COU roster maintenance.
    • Governance guidance, operating standards, and training materials.
    • Category and COU roadmap development.
  • Act as a center of expertise for COU best practices, driving consistency while allowing for category‑specific flexibility.
• Tools, Data, & Market Integration
  • Serve as the functional owner for portfolio and category management tools supporting lifecycle execution.
  • Maintain SKU-mapping within the Clarivate market data tool, ensuring alignment between internal portfolios and external market insights.
  • Partner with data, analytics, and technology teams to ensure accuracy, automation, and usability of portfolio and category data.
• Templates, Standards & Enablement
  • Create, own, and maintain standardized lifecycle and category artifacts, including:
    • Intake forms and business cases.
    • Category and COU roadmaps.
    • Governance review templates.
    • Prioritization and investment materials.
  • Ensure templates are outcome driven, scalable, and consistently adopted across the organization.
  • Drive adoption through training, communication, and stakeholder engagement.
• Metrics, Insights & Continuous Improvement
  • Define and monitor KPIs related to:
    • Portfolio throughput and prioritization effectiveness.
    • Category maturity progression.
    • Strategic alignment and value realization.
  • Use insights to refine lifecycle processes, governance forums, and category standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.
• Preferred Certifications: PMP, LSS Black/Green Belt.
• 8+ years of experience preferred.
• Familiarity with enterprise road mapping, customer segmentation, and bundling strategies preferred.
• Experience operating within category based or product centric operating models preferred.
• Experience with Data Visualization tools preferred (Tableau, PowerBi, etc.).
• Ability to balance governance rigor with speed and adaptability.
• Travel Expectations: Up to 25%.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Paid time off plan.
• Health savings account (HSA).
• 401k savings plan.
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Work-Life resources.
• Paid parental leave.
• Healthy lifestyle programs.