Initiative Owner (IO) – Management Consultant
Role: Initiative Owner (IO) – Management Consultant Location: 100% Remote Type : Fulltime Permanent The Initiative Owner (IO) is the accountable leader for a North Star Data Architecture (NSDA) workstream, with ownership of governance, decisions, scope, and outcomes. This is not a delivery PM or technical architect role. The IO translates executive intent into a governed, executable workstream and drives alignment across internal teams and delivery partners.
Key Responsibilities
Governance & Accountability
- Own workstream governance, RACI, decision rights, escalation paths, and acceptance criteria.
- Maintain scope boundaries across concurrent initiatives and vendors.
- Drive approvals, scope changes, and governance actions to completion.
Delivery Leadership
- Partner with the vendor Senior Program Manager on milestones, dependencies, and delivery execution.
- Lead governance forums and reporting cadence.
- Provide leadership updates, including daily status reporting during critical phases.
Executive & Business Alignment
- Develop vision documents, use-case narratives, and executive presentations.
- Translate healthcare business needs into actionable workstreams.
- Present recommendations and status to clinical and administrative leaders.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Coordinate across operations, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, compliance, and vendors.
- Resolve blockers and escalate issues with recommended solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years in healthcare, including at least two domains: provider, payer, population health, or life sciences. Provider experience strongly preferred.
- Proven ownership of large, multi-workstream programs or strategic initiatives.
- Consulting, product, platform, or transformation leadership experience.
- Executive stakeholder management, roadmap development, and portfolio planning experience.
- Experience delivering within HIPAA, HITRUST, PHI, or similar regulated healthcare environments.
- Exposure to data governance, stewardship, metadata management, catalogs, or data platforms.
- Strong AI/LLM expertise, including RAG architectures, conversational agents, data curation, and evaluation methodologies.
- Leadership of cross-functional teams (10+) with portfolio and budget accountability.
- Demonstrated ability to define structure and execution plans in ambiguous environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Healthcare platform modernization or 0-to-1 platform build experience.
- Client-side vendor management and SOW oversight.
- SAFe or comparable scaled Agile experience.
- Clinical background or deep clinical workflow expertise.
Not a Fit
- Delivery or Scrum PMs who require predefined scope.
- Technical architects whose primary focus is solution design.
- Candidates with only healthcare expertise or only AI/LLM expertise. Strong capability in both domains is required.