Principal Transformation Consultant

CentraCare•Saint Cloud, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Find your purpose as a Principal Transformation Consultant at CentraCare! This role bridges strategy and execution, ensuring that transformation initiatives deliver measurable and sustainable results. Responsible for managing a transformation portfolio and driving transformational improvement initiatives totaling >$150M in NOI and large-scale organizational changes. Working closely with the Transformation Management, Enterprise Project Management, Strategy Development, and Leadership Development teams. This position collaborates with CentraCare leaders to identify value creation opportunities, supports complex planning through a structured approach to problem solving using analytical tools and frameworks to develop solutions to complex business challenges, and provides system-level measurement and reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required (project management, business administration, management, health care, or related field)
Minimum of 10 years of experience
Transformation Management, Project Management, Consulting, or Business Planning experience, preferably in a large, complex health care organization required.
Experience with transformation methodologies and using performance improvement tools.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, including Excel and PowerPoint.
High comfort level with ambiguity and leading teams through the process of getting to tangible deliverables.
Strong skill set in conflict resolution at an executive level.
Demonstrated business acumen, quantitative and analytic skills.
Ability to navigate organizational politics.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Minimum of 3 years People leadership/management preferred.
Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.
Lean Six Sigma preferred.

Responsibilities

Translates enterprise or business unit strategy into actionable transformation roadmaps and defines target operating models, capability requirements, and change impacts for identified initiatives/projects.
Facilitates large-scale organizational changes such as identifying opportunities, building the business case for change, assisting in defining the action steps/workplans, and identify and create risk mitigation plans.
Leads exploration and due diligence relating to new project concepts and initiatives, translating operational and industry intelligence into the business case development.
Provides recommendations or options to CentraCare leaders based on analysis and findings that support definitive, data-driven decision making.
Supports transformation portfolio governance, cadence, and benefits realization.
Supports implementation focused on service line restructuring, growth strategies, or other transformational changes.
Utilizes broad change management strategies which drives higher efficiency and effectiveness.
Proactively works with cross-functional teams to understand the impact of changes on different departments and ensure that transformation goals are aligned across the organization.
Conducts impact analyses to assess stakeholder readiness for tactical changes and change adoption.
Collaboratively creates frameworks and approaches that can be leveraged across projects and modified to the defined purpose to accelerate speed to insights and results.
Actively champions and contributes to the continuous improvement of healthcare best practices, using innovative ideas to increase effectiveness of the overall organization.
Provides subject matter expertise in project scope definition, risk identification, project methodology, resource allocation, facilitation and other areas of expertise based on leading practice project management techniques.
Works effectively with business partners, vendors and staff to develop project agendas and ensure agreement/adoption of project objectives/deliverables by affected constituencies.
Provide proactive communication to project owner.
Work to identify cross-organizational interdependencies and ensure appropriate integration to project plan.
Effectively manage client expectations and resource requirements to ensure ownership and success.
Establishes and nurtures strong client and business partner relationships while also developing and maintaining trusted, long-term client relationships.
Provides transparency and manage integrated work plans to CentraCare organizational leaders for all projects in Transformation Management portfolio.
Monitors overall financial impact of projects within the Transformation Management portfolio work and appropriate reporting for the Exec Director, Enterprise Projects, Transformation, and Analytics and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Acts as a key operational representative on the appropriate Steering Committees and as a trusted advisor to leaders during periods of complexity and disruption.