Senior Consultant, Portfolio Enablement Lead

Cardinal Health

23h

About The Position

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.

Requirements

8-12 years of experience
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
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

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).