Senior Strategic Program Partner

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Summary

In this role, you will serve as the primary strategic partner for a portfolio of enterprise initiatives, working closely with business and technology leaders to align priorities, guide execution, and realize measurable business outcomes.

You will collaborate with executive stakeholders to identify opportunities, shape strategic approaches, define implementation roadmaps, and guide initiatives from concept through successful execution and value realization.

You will manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives, align business and technical teams, navigate organizational complexity, and ensure initiatives remain aligned with enterprise objectives. Beyond leading individual programs, you will help strengthen the organization’s strategic execution capabilities by improving portfolio management practices and influencing organizational decision-making.

Success in this role requires exceptional business acumen, executive presence, systems thinking, and the ability to influence without formal authority across a highly matrixed environment.

This role will primarily support the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) organization, partnering with its leaders to translate business strategy and priorities into coordinated plans, mobilize cross-functional execution, and drive measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

- Partner with senior business leaders to translate strategic priorities into executable initiatives and roadmaps.

- Manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, business objectives, and available capacity.

- Facilitate strategic planning discussions to clarify objectives, define success measures, and establish execution approaches.

- Advise leaders on prioritization, sequencing, investment decisions, and organizational trade-offs.

- Identify opportunities to improve organizational performance through strategic initiatives and business transformation.

- Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from opportunity identification through implementation and business value realization.

- Establish governance structures, decision frameworks, and executive reporting to support successful execution.

- Coordinate business and technical workstreams while managing dependencies across multiple business units and shared services.

- Drive issue resolution by developing data-driven recommendations and facilitating executive decision-making.

- Monitor initiative health, organizational readiness, risks, dependencies, and overall portfolio performance.

- Track progress and outcome realization across the P2P portfolio, helping leaders determine whether strategic initiatives are delivering the intended business value.

- Provide leaders with clear, data-informed portfolio views and recommendations to support prioritization, sequencing, capacity, investment, and course correction.

- Drive execution of P2P priorities by clarifying decisions, surfacing risks and trade-offs, removing barriers, and maintaining accountability for committed outcomes.

- Connect related work across Procurement, Finance, Accounts Payable, Supply Chain, Technology, and other business partners to maintain alignment and manage cross-functional dependencies.

- Translate P2P strategic priorities into integrated roadmaps, initiative plans, milestones, success measures, governance, and clear ownership.

- Serve as the primary strategic program partner to Procure-to-Pay leaders, developing a strong understanding of the organization’s strategy, priorities, operating context, and desired outcomes.

- Partner with Process Transformation Partners to design and implement sustainable business solutions.

- Support organizational change by aligning stakeholders, defining adoption strategies, and preparing leaders for implementation.

- Ensure initiatives achieve intended business outcomes through measurable benefits realization.

- Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen execution, governance, and organizational effectiveness.

- Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders across business and technology organizations.

- Prepare executive-ready presentations, recommendations, dashboards, and portfolio updates.

- Influence strategic decisions without direct authority through effective communication, facilitation, and relationship management.

- Facilitate cross-functional meetings that enable alignment, accelerate decisions, and remove organizational barriers.

- Continuously improve portfolio management frameworks, governance practices, reporting, and execution standards.

- Stay informed on industry trends, emerging technologies, organizational transformation practices, and strategic execution methodologies.

- Apply advanced AI fluency to improve business strategy, complex analysis, stakeholder communications, and decision-making.

- Evaluate and refine AI-generated outputs for accuracy, relevance, and business impact while promoting effective and responsible AI use across functional activities.

Qualifications

- Relevant degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Organizational Leadership, Operations Management, or a related field required.

- 7 or more years of experience leading strategic programs, business transformation initiatives, portfolio management, or related roles.

- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business impact.

- Experience partnering directly with senior executives and influencing strategic decisions and strong executive communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.

- Experience managing portfolios of initiatives, organizational priorities, and complex stakeholder environments.

- Strong understanding of organizational change management, business transformation, governance, and strategic planning.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning and execution across business, process, data, technology, and change workstreams.
- Experience supporting P2P, procurement, finance, accounts payable, or ERP-enabled transformation initiatives and apply that context to strategic planning and execution preferred.
- Experience using project and portfolio management platforms such as Microsoft Project, Planner, Jira, Smartsheet, or similar tools.

- Demonstrated deep knowledge of AI tools, capabilities, outputs, and limitations, with the ability to apply AI effectively in complex business situations.
- Healthcare industry experience highly preferred.
- PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification preferred.

This role is a hybrid role in any of our 5 office locations - Chicago, Irving, Centennial, Nashville, Charlotte

Estimated Hiring Range:
At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $88,900.00 to $155,500.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer:   Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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