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.