[Hiring] Senior Consultant, Portfolio Enablement Lead @Cardinal Health

Role Description

The Portfolio Enablement Lead is a senior individual contributor responsible for enabling disciplined execution, transparency, and decision-making across a complex technology and business portfolio. This role partners closely with IT and business leaders to ensure strategic initiatives are well-structured, prioritized, and executed effectively—without direct people management responsibility.

The role acts as a force multiplier for the VP and leadership team by driving portfolio rigor, improving operating cadence, and ensuring that strategy translates into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Financial Management (Budget + Forecasting)
  • Own and run Biopharma Solutions IT budget planning and management processes, including annual planning, in-year forecasting, variance tracking, and leadership-ready rollups.
  • Partner with Finance and portfolio leaders to ensure timely, accurate inputs into enterprise financial processes and templates.
  • Build a consistent operating view of portfolio spend and capacity, highlighting risks, tradeoffs, and decision points.
• SFP Enablement Across All 3 Areas of Your Org
  • Coordinate Strategic & Financial Planning (SFP) activities across the three areas in your organization: timeline management, artifact readiness, stakeholder alignment, and submission quality control.
  • Drive consolidation of assumptions, dependencies, and narrative across SFP inputs to ensure a cohesive story and “exec-ready” documentation.
  • Maintain an SFP artifact repository and reusable templates (business case slide, FAQ inputs, investment narratives).
• Run Operational Reviews (Operating Rhythm + Performance)
  • Plan, organize, and facilitate monthly/quarterly Operational Reviews (agenda, pre-reads, dashboards, decision capture, actions).
  • Standardize content quality and performance reporting across teams (KPIs, highlights, risks/asks, and follow-ups).
  • Track action items to closure and ensure owners/next steps are clear.
• Organize & Facilitate Product Reviews
  • Own logistics and facilitation for bi-annual/quarterly Product Reviews: scheduling, stakeholder prep, content governance, pre-reads, and meeting flow.
  • Ensure product teams provide consistent updates on: outcomes/value, roadmap progress, financials, risks, and decisions required.
  • Drive post-review follow-through and action tracking.
• Lead the AI Champions Program (Biopharma Solutions IT)
  • Own the AI Champions community model for Biopharma Solutions IT: charter, membership, expectations, and operating cadence.
  • Equip champions to identify high-impact use cases, promote AI literacy, and publish wins to normalize AI-enhanced workflows.
  • Partner with enterprise AI governance and leaders to reinforce responsible AI use and alignment with AI standards/policies.
• People Manager Forum + Engagement Leadership
  • Design and run a Quarterly People Managers Forum: content agenda, leadership enablement topics, cross-team sharing, and follow-ups.
  • Lead engagement activities for Biopharma Solutions IT (recognition moments, pulse feedback loops, community building, development programming).

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• Experience in portfolio operations, PMO, finance operations, strategy ops, or transformation roles
• Experience building communities of practice / champions programs and leading adoption initiatives
• Familiarity with responsible AI governance concepts and cross-functional operating models

Requirements

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
• Projects may have significant and long-term impact
• Provides solutions which may set precedent
• Independently determines method for completion of new projects
• Receives guidance on overall project objectives
• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

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