Publishing: Establishing & Managing Partnerships and Relationships
PD Implementation Consultant June 2013 Final
1. ImplementationConsultantPosition Description
Title: Implementation Consultant
Reports to: Country Manager - NZ
Location: New Zealand (with travel)
Start Date: 16 September 2013
Purpose of Position
Key customer facing role – to engage with customer (both existing and potential) to
understand business requirements / business problem and enable the implementation of
CCMS to meet the business and clinical workflows and requirements.
Project management/implementation of the HSAGlobal product suite, including support
for clinical process change management
Presales support for sales and marketing team
Key Responsibilities
Project manage/implement the HSAGlobal product suite, including support for clinical
process change management
Fulfil a range of roles to support the customer delivery effort ranging from full project
management, to QA to strategic advisory
Provide presales support for sales and marketing team
Capture information regarding process, functional, end-user benefit requirements and
prepare or assist in preparation of effective business cases for clients
Assist in business/clinical process and information capture for software configuration and
deployment support for implementations and ensure proposed configuration is reviewed
and signed off internally.
Provide domain specific input into other HSAGlobal projects (clients or internal as
assigned)
Produce Statements of Work for customer–specific product development- and manage
and monitor the delivery of these Statements of Work (all communication to customer,
the interface between Development Manager & customer) to time, quality and budget.
Liaise with Head Office Product Management, Service and Support on local product
requirements, issues, and other localization activities as required, including co-ordination
of any customer user group
Communicate the product releases to customers and provide advice to customers as to
when/ whether to access new functionality
Manage customer expectations with respect to availability of new functionality and
turnaround of issues Is engaged with end customers for a significant proportion of their
time (as close to 100% as possible)
Relationships
External Internal
• Partners and partner staff
• Business stakeholders
• External service providers and
other external agencies
• Customers
Director – Product Development
Development Manager
Development & QA team
Service Delivery team
Product Architect and Business Analysis
2. • User Groups
• Sales agents
• Vendors
Team
Implementation Services team
Regional implementation teams
Sales and Marketing
Corporate services team
Director Partners and Delivery
Experience
Registered Health Professional and/or experience in multiple sectors of healthcare
service delivery
Understanding of the “integrated healthcare/ long-term condition management” domain
Health information management experience/ qualification
Project experience, in the healthcare environment including experience in IT
package implementation projects as part of an implementation team
Change management experience particularly in the health sector.
Essential skills
Communication, relationship management and negotiation/ influencing skills
Demonstrated ability to see the ‘large picture’ and strategic vision which you clearly
communicate with external and internal stakeholders.
Ability to identify and pursue opportunities as a vendor to support the enabling of existing
and new clinical workflows
Ability to problem solve
Flexibility and responsive to changing environments
Ability to broker, and deliver IT solutions with clinical requirements
You will need to be:
Able to build and maintain relationships with a complex array of stakeholders
Build and motivate “clinical engagement”, IT delivery and service redesign teams
Able to seek opportunities and progress these with the relevant stakeholder groups within
the scope of a clearly defined strategic direction
Able to ‘get your hands dirty’ within the daily operations of projects
Work independently with support from the team based in New Zealand
Experienced and strategic in project planning, risk assessment and management, issue
resolution
Customer and outcome focused
Team player
Deadline driven
Willing and able to travel