Healthcare Initiative Owner (IO) – Management Consultant

Initiative Owner (IO) – Management Consultant
Location: Remote

Role
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.