Sr Consultant – PLM Strategy

Cardinal Health

3d•Remote

About The Position

Job Summary 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in related field preferred
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.)

Nice To Haves

Preferred Certifications: PMP, LSS Black/Green Belt

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.

Benefits

Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.
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