The Portfolio Enablement Lead is a senior individual contributor responsible for enabling disciplined execution, transparency, and decision-making across a complex technology and business portfolio. This role partners closely with IT and business leaders to ensure strategic initiatives are well-structured, prioritized, and executed effectively—without direct people management responsibility.
The role acts as a force multiplier for the VP and leadership team by driving portfolio rigor, improving operating cadence, and ensuring that strategy translates into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
Portfolio & Financial Management (Budget + Forecasting)
- Own and run Biopharma Solutions IT budget planning and management processes, including annual planning, in-year forecasting, variance tracking, and leadership-ready rollups.
- Partner with Finance and portfolio leaders to ensure timely, accurate inputs into enterprise financial processes and templates.
- Build a consistent operating view of portfolio spend and capacity, highlighting risks, tradeoffs, and decision points.
SFP Enablement Across All 3 Areas of Your Org
- Coordinate Strategic & Financial Planning (SFP) activities across the three areas in your organization: timeline management, artifact readiness, stakeholder alignment, and submission quality control.
- Drive consolidation of assumptions, dependencies, and narrative across SFP inputs to ensure a cohesive story and “exec-ready” documentation.
- Maintain an SFP artifact repository and reusable templates (business case slide, FAQ inputs, investment narratives).
Run Operational Reviews (Operating Rhythm + Performance)
- Plan, organize, and facilitate monthly/quarterly Operational Reviews (agenda, pre-reads, dashboards, decision capture, actions).
- Standardize content quality and performance reporting across teams (KPIs, highlights, risks/asks, and follow-ups).
- Track action items to closure and ensure owners/next steps are clear.
Organize & Facilitate Product Reviews
- Own logistics and facilitation for bi-annual/quarterly Product Reviews: scheduling, stakeholder prep, content governance, pre-reads, and meeting flow.
- Ensure product teams provide consistent updates on: outcomes/value, roadmap progress, financials, risks, and decisions required.
- Drive post-review follow-through and action tracking.
Lead the AI Champions Program (Biopharma Solutions IT)
- Own the AI Champions community model for Biopharma Solutions IT: charter, membership, expectations, and operating cadence.
- Equip champions to identify high-impact use cases, promote AI literacy, and publish wins to normalize AI-enhanced workflows.
- Partner with enterprise AI governance and leaders to reinforce responsible AI use and alignment with AI standards/policies.
People Manager Forum + Engagement Leadership
- Design and run a Quarterly People Managers Forum: content agenda, leadership enablement topics, cross-team sharing, and follow-ups.
- Lead engagement activities for Biopharma Solutions IT (recognition moments, pulse feedback loops, community building, development programming).
Qualifications
- 8-12 years of experience, preferred
- Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
- Experience in portfolio operations, PMO, finance operations, strategy ops, or transformation roles
- Experience building communities of practice / champions programs and leading adoption initiatives
- Familiarity with responsible AI governance concepts and cross-functional operating models
What is expected of you and others at this level
- Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
- Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
- Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
- Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
- Projects may have significant and long-term impact
- Provides solutions which may set precedent
- Independently determines method for completion of new projects
- Receives guidance on overall project objectives
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues
Anticipated salary range: $105,100 - $165,110
Bonus eligible: Yes
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
Application window anticipated to close: 05/01/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.
The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.
Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.
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