Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McKesson is a global leader in healthcare supply chain management solutions, and they are seeking a Lead Strategic Business Consultant. The Lead Consultant will be responsible for managing and delivering enterprise strategic initiatives while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure project success.
Responsibilities
- Leads the development of business cases for internal strategic projects, whose goals align with the enterprise vision, mission, and business strategies of the organization
- Provide strategic and tactical directions for all aspects of delivery of a process
- Extremely consultative and influential; provides partners with alternate solutions and recommendations for processes, systems, and solutions
- Conducts business analysis activities using different methodologies as needed for each project
- Develops detailed project plans, implementation schedules, project cost estimates, resource plans, and budgets. Coordinates activities, defines deliverables and milestones, and participates in team assignments. Sets and controls scope
- Identifies project critical path and dependencies to other ongoing initiatives within the businesses
- Identifies project risks and possible mitigations
- Takes lead in change management process for each project; anticipates change leadership needs for business
- Ability to design, develop, or modify business processes, with identification of bottlenecks and process capacities. Ability to map as-is and to-be business processes
- Collaborates with business partners to devise/modify processes to solve complex problems and/or improve existing processes
- Ability to understand and articulate the To-Be vision and to champion it across the organization
- Tracks project issues through resolution during pre- and post-implementation phases
- Manage project activities and tasks, monitor processes, and any business, IT, technical issue resolutions
- Leads/conducts/participates in all aspects of the project, including requirements identification, analysis, design and development, testing (including User Acceptance Testing), and training
- Manages and monitors project budget and timeline
- Facilitates and participates in daily scrum, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings
- Facilitates, in collaboration with IT partners and business, the backlog grooming process and works with the product, development, and business teams to size features, enhancements, understand dependencies, constraints, risks, etc
- Supports improvement of project delivery through process improvement and operational excellence
- Coaches and mentors team in the adoption and maturity of the Agile/SAFe methodologies and other PM methodologies
- Provide regular project status updates to stakeholders and business leadership
- Collaborates with external vendors on various project delivery assessments and initiatives
- Manages the integration of vendor tasks, and tracks vendor deliverables
- Provides thought leadership on initiatives gained through research and benchmarking analysis as needed; anticipate trends and ensure appropriate solutions for the business
- Demonstrated strong, collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders
- Measures the project solution benefits and key measures of success post-implementation to ensure project benefits are realized
Skills
- 4-year degree in business or related field or equivalent experience
- Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience
- Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications
- 10+ years of experience managing strategic initiatives, preferably with process and technology focus
- 5+ years of consultative experience in a project management-type role
- Demonstrated utilization of project management methodologies, especially Agile/SAFe project delivery
- Experience working as a project manager or process consultant in a supply chain organization (distribution/logistics, contact center, inventory, etc.) environment
- Proficient in all MS Office products
- Working knowledge of Visio or other project/program management software
- Prior experience with transformation technologies, including Salesforce technology and artificial intelligence
- Strong financial and business acumen with ability to create and defend a business case to show value/benefit of project initiatives
- Experience with organizational, process, and technology projects as well as change leadership best practices
- Tenured, proven track record managing cross-functional projects ranging in size, complexity, and impact; management/utilization, delivery against scheduled commitments, risk mitigation, issue management, and effective management of client expectations
- Demonstrated leadership, managerial, consultative, collaborative, influencing, and negotiation skills
- Demonstrated change leadership capabilities and knowledge
- Strong analytical background to understand how to leverage data to influence business decisions
- Demonstrated ability to build high trust relationships with key stakeholders (including business partners and vendors) and ability to communicate with and influence senior level executives
- Demonstrated conflict resolution and problem-solving skills with focus on openness, honesty, and respect
- Ability to be flexible and quickly adapt to change and high growth environments
- Ability to manage a portfolio of diverse large-scale projects/programs across multiple business partners with multiple geographical locations
- Proven ability to coach, mentor and motivate project team members
- Demonstrated ability to measure and achieve projective objectives
- Exceptional communication skills- written, verbal, presentation, and meeting facilitation
- Outstanding organizational skills with a high attention to detail
- Ability to work in a constantly changing environment
- Must be authorized to work in the US unrestricted – This position is not eligible for sponsorship
- Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt preferred
- Relevant McKesson experience is preferred; healthcare industry experience highly advantageous
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment with ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.
- If the selected candidate lives within a 50-mile radius of our Irving Office, the Employee will have a hybrid schedule and be required to work on-site a minimum of two (2) days per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific in-office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.
- We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards.
- In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.
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