Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. As a Senior Program Manager within the McKesson Commercial Strategy & Innovation segment, this role will be responsible for successful delivery of key programs and projects that span multiple McKesson business units & segments.
Responsibilities
- Serves as the primary lead in facilitating full‑spectrum commercialization of products and services wrapped into programs & projects across McKesson
- Provide organization, coordination and leadership for cross‑functional project teams to ensure project deliverables and timelines are met
- Responsible for developing & maintaining detailed project/program outlines, including scope, deliverables, goals, budgets, & timelines
- Ensures workstreams continue to execute/implement according to the overall program plan and identifies/highlights/works to resolve areas where workstreams run into roadblocks
- Provides monitoring and support on program status, key performance indicators, and other qualitative/quantitative metrics to key stakeholders and leaders across multiple segments
- Conducts regular program reviews with key stakeholders and leadership to keep teams apprised of progress, next steps, and key risks identified
- Identify, document, and mitigate key risks, issues, and dependencies across the program and recommend actions to ensure successful completion of projects
- Serve as the central connector across executives, cross‑functional partners, workstream leads, and technical teams by ensuring communication is clear, timely, consistent, and audience‑appropriate
- Translate complex program updates (risks, issues, dependencies, technical or operational implications) into crisp, actionable insights for executive leaders and stakeholders
- Elevate risks, issues, and bottlenecks with clarity — providing context, recommended mitigation paths, and decision requests to Sponsors, SteerCo, and leaders
- Maintain high program visibility by proactively sharing status, milestones, KPIs, and emerging concerns through established reporting cadences (workstream huddles, bi‑weekly status, SteerCo, dashboards)
- Drive alignment across functions by ensuring all stakeholders receive the right information at the right time, reducing ambiguity and preventing miscommunication
- Foster a culture of transparency and accountability, encouraging open dialogue on challenges, trade‑offs, and interdependencies across teams
- Ensure expectations are aligned early and often, adapting communication style for executives, peers, and technical partners to accelerate decision‑making and collaboration
- Serve as contact & advocate for and between product management, technical teams, and business leaders to ensure transparency, accurate messaging, and understanding across all levels of the organization
- Works closely with partners in Product, IT, Strategic Marketing, Sales, Strategy, Legal, Compliance, and other functions to ensure correct scoping and deliverables for key program initiatives
- Identifies, facilitates, and advances thought processes and work as related to overall program and organizational objectives
- Engage directly with architects, engineers, and technical product partners to understand solution options, system constraints, technical feasibility, and integration points
- Translate complex technical concepts, system behaviors, and solution designs into clear, digestible updates for non‑technical and executive stakeholders
- Maintain visibility into technical workstreams to ensure architectural decisions, build progress, and technical blockers are proactively raised and incorporated into overall program delivery
- Collaborate with engineering and MT partners to ensure technical requirements are thoroughly captured, validated, and reflected in program plans, deliverables, and milestone tracking
Skills
- Degree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications
- 10+ Years of experience in Program Management of large-scale initiatives in highly matrixed organizations with track record of successful delivery; preferred experience partnering with technical product teams and engineering teams
- Excellent leadership, communication, time and stakeholder management, facilitation, and organization skills
- Experience partnering with product, finance and go-to-market teams to evaluate product pricing models
- Experience in the pharmaceutical, drug supply chain, healthcare, or other highly regulated industry
- Technically fluent; able to engage confidently with architects and engineering teams
- Comfortable navigating technical ambiguity and driving clarity across multiple technical and business stakeholders
- Strong systems thinker who connects technical execution to business impact
- Robust understanding of project & product management methodologies and toolsets (PMP, Pragmatic experience, etc. preferred)
- Proven ability to lead and influence without direct authority and reporting relationships
- Strong power point and excel skills
- Ability to work through processes, remain organized, and manage complex matters/cases and multiple stakeholders both virtually and in-person
- Ability to work proactively when anticipating issues and solving problems
- Ability to quickly adapt to change and work in ambiguity while maintaining attention to detail
- Strategic problem solving and decision-making ability
- Strong interpersonal skills
Benefits
- Location flexibility
- Hybrid capacity with minimum of two (2) days per week onsite at Las Colinas office for DFW area candidates
- Annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered
- Competitive compensation package as part of Total Rewards
- McKesson complies with all applicable U.S. immigration laws and regulations
- McKesson provides equal employment opportunities without regard to legally protected categories
- Reasonable accommodation to assist with job search or application for employment if needed
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