Lead Strategic Business Consultant

Job Summary

McKesson is seeking to add a Lead Strategic Business Consultant. McKesson Customer Distribution Experience PMO is currently seeking a Lead Strategic Business Consultant responsible for the management and delivery of enterprise strategic initiatives. The Lead Consultant will manage large-scale, cross-functional teams to deliver projects within scope, budget, timeline and with focused outcomes.

In addition, the Lead Consultant must act in a consultative manner to assist business partners in analysis of business processes, and in systems and users’ needs in relation to the business requirements identified.

The Lead Consultant should also champion the different project/program methodologies, including Agile/SAFe framework to drive a more nimble and agile project experience within the organization and with our business partners.

Finally, the Lead Consultant will act as the project liaison with business partners/vendors, both internal and external to McKesson. The Lead Consultant will plan, organize, monitor and manage several strategic initiatives (a project portfolio), and is able to collaboratively co‑manage projects with other Strategic Business Consultants, ensures the appropriate plans are in place to resolve any issues or project health deficiencies, and can provide clear and consistent communication across the org.

• 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…