Consultant, IT Strategy and Governance

What Strategy and Portfolio Management team contributes to Cardinal Health

Strategy and Portfolio Management is responsible for the creation of Strategy for their relevant area, maintaining the multiyear strategic investment plans and ensuring that proposed projects are accompanied with solid business cases, prioritized and funded with close alignment to the overall Business and strategy.

• Contributes to and supports the creation of multi-year strategy(ies), roadmap(s) and investment plan(s) working with the various EIT teams and business clients and Strategy, Planning and Portfolio Director to ensure consistency and alignment within the segment.
• Understands and is able to clearly articulate the division's business strategy.
• Leads and coordinates application health and risk assessments, investment priorities, execution governance and quality reporting.
• Facilitates the prioritization of work across the division/area balancing the demand for work against Business and IT priorities, strategic growth areas, available budget and resources.
• Partners with finance to align budgets, spending, and repairs and maintenance with corporate-assigned targets
• Ensures that forecasting and reporting is appropriate and accurate.
• Acts as a value-add resource to lead clients in the process of developing high quality business cases and project charters.
• Collaborates with clients and project teams to implement benefit tracking and reporting to ensure that IT investments are delivering on their expected/committed value proposition.
• Develops capacity planning for an organization, as needed, and co-relates it to the portfolio demand
• Set up/maintain portfolio/project artifacts in online tools (Project Web App, ServiceNow, SAP)
• Monitor/manage IT portfolio global mailboxes
• Manage project intake pipeline and process change requests
• Supports monthly portfolio forecasting and close activities
• Fulfill portfolio/project data, reporting or presentation requests.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years experience in related field preferred
• Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft 365 tool set, specifically Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint
• Financial acumen, including operational support and management level reporting.
• Basic knowledge of Project Management concepts and processes.
• Ability to drive results with limited supervision.
• Ability to drive results in highly matrixed organization.

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work independently receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.