McKesson

Senior Program Manager, Oncology & Multispecialty Tech Strategy

McKesson$99K — $132K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years in project or program management, technology delivery, or similar roles
  • Experience managing multiple medium-to-large initiatives with significant impacts
  • Ability to handle integrated plans and governance activities autonomously
  • Expertise in cross-functional teamwork and influencing stakeholders
  • Familiarity with delivery methodologies, governance standards, and performance reporting
  • Preferred experience in healthcare technology, risk management, or compliance

Responsibilities

  • Lead scope definition and ensure alignment with business goals
  • Develop and maintain integrated program plans across multiple requests
  • Facilitate planning discussions to coordinate resources and schedules
  • Define success criteria connecting operational targets to stakeholder experience
  • Manage execution of intake, review, and approval processes
  • Oversee dependencies across various functional areas and resolve conflicts
  • Establish stakeholder communication plans to keep all parties informed

Benefits

  • Access to advanced analytics, automation, and AI tools for improving workflows
  • Opportunity for indirect leadership and cross-functional collaboration
  • Exposure to complex projects that make a meaningful impact in healthcare
  • Support for continuous improvement initiatives and change leadership
  • Potential for professional development in a matrixed environment
Full Job Description

Position Summary

The Senior Program Manager, Oncology and Multispecialty StrategyTech Strategyleads the execution and continuous improvement of New Solutions Enablement across The US Oncology Network. The role manages multiple related initiatives within a complex program, coordinating intake, technology, cybersecurity, data governance, procurement, vendor management, legal, and IT service management reviews to ensure requests align with business priorities, McKesson standards, and expected outcomes.

Working with the Governance Lead, Sr. Product Program Manager, requesting practices, business leaders, and technology partners, this role defines and refines scope, facilitates cross-team planning, manages interdependencies, resolves resource and workflow gaps, and maintains clear accountability for milestones, decisions, and next actions. The Senior Program Manager provides indirect leadership across participating teams andoperateswith autonomy in a matrixed environment.

The successful candidate combines program management discipline, business and technical awareness, strong stakeholder influence, and data-driven decision-making. This role turns a complex, multi-system process into a transparent and trusted program while ensuring that speed does not compromise cybersecurity, data, vendor, legal, technology, or service management requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Program Planning and Strategic Alignment

  • Lead scope definition and refinement with business, practice, and technical stakeholders, ensuring New Solutions Enablement activities align with business goals, technology strategy, and approved governance requirements.

  • Develop andmaintainan integrated program plan, milestones, decision points, resource needs, and dependencies across multiple concurrent solution requests and review workstreams.

  • Facilitate complex cross-initiative planning discussions,identifyprerequisites, and coordinate solutions to resource or scheduling gaps across participating teams.

  • Define program success criteria with sponsors and stakeholders, connecting operational targets to transparency, compliance, cycle time, stakeholder experience, and business value.

Program Execution and Cross-Functional Delivery

  • Lead day-to-day execution across intake, assessment, review, approval, cataloging, and closure, ensuring each request has a clear owner,current status, next action, and target milestone.

  • Manage complex dependencies and handoffs across Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Procurement, Vendor Management, Legal, IT Service Management, architecture, technology teams, and requesting practices.

  • Lead scope and priority trade-off discussions, drive agreement on changes, and ensure decisions are documented, approved, and communicated across affected stakeholders.

  • Provide indirect leadership to cross-functional contributors, remove roadblocks, resolve conflicts, and escalate high-impact issues with recommended actions.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

  • Ensure each request is evaluated against applicable McKesson technology, cybersecurity, data governance, vendor due diligence, legal, architecture, and IT service management standards before advancement.

  • Independentlyidentify, assess, prioritize, and manage risks and issues across multiple requests;maintainrisk and issue records, execute mitigation plans, and communicate significant exposures to program leadership.

  • Establish clear escalation paths and ensure exceptions are surfaced for decision rather than bypassed or resolved outside approved governance processes.

  • Maintain complete,accurate, and audit-ready program records across Asana and related systems of record, including status, ownership, decisions, conditions, approvals, and supporting documentation.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

  • Establish a strong cross-functional stakeholder network and serve as a trusted point of coordination for practices, business leaders, review teams, vendors, and technology partners.

  • Maintain feedback loops with key stakeholders toidentifyprogram adjustments that improve business value, predictability, and requester experience.

  • Develop and execute a stakeholder communication plan that provides clear status, risks, decisions, impacts, and next steps for different audiences.

  • Partner with senior stakeholders to resolve conflicts, negotiate commitments, manage expectations, and sustain alignment without direct authority.

Performance Reporting and Business Value

  • Develop andmaintaindashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting for request volume, aging, cycle time, SLA performance, risk, dependencies, bottlenecks, and decision status.

  • Prepare the monthly New Solution Requests executive summary for business unit CIO approval, translating program data into actionable insights, decisions, and intervention priorities.

  • Track andreportprogram milestones and performance, assess stakeholder feedback, andidentifyopportunities to improve value delivered across initiatives.

  • Use advanced analytics, automation, and AI-assisted insights whereappropriate toimprove forecasting,identifydelivery risks, reduce manual follow-up, and strengthen prioritization.

Continuous Improvement and Change Adoption

  • Lead improvements to intake forms, questionnaires, review workflows, handoffs, reporting, and the approved solution catalog to reduce redundancy and improve data quality and throughput.

  • Facilitate lessons learned and retrospective reviews, perform root cause analysis on delays or recurring gaps, and ensure corrective actions have owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes.

  • Develop and refine delivery standards, procedures, templates, and tools that increase consistency across the program.

  • Support adoption of new ways of working by aligning stakeholders on theprogramvision, benefits, roles, and expected behaviors.

Required Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, healthcare administration, healthcare informatics, computer science, ora relatedfield, or equivalent experience.

  • Typically7+ years of progressive experience in project or program management, technology delivery, governance operations, portfolio management, business operations, ora relateddiscipline.

  • Demonstrated experience managing multiple medium-to-large initiatives within a complex project or program where delivery outcomes carry meaningful business, operational, regulatory, or technology impact.

  • Proven ability to manage integrated plans, milestones, scope, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, governance activities, and executive reporting with substantial autonomy.

  • Experience leading cross-functional work and influencing business and technology stakeholders without direct authority.

  • Experience applying enterprise delivery methodologies, governance standards, workflow tools, and performance reporting practices in a matrixed organization.

  • Healthcare, health technology,regulated-industry, technology governance, vendor intake, risk management, cybersecurity, data governance, procurement, or legal review experience is preferred.

Required Skills and Competencies

  • Programmanagement:applies advanced project and program management practices to plan and manage multiple related initiatives, balance scope and priorities, and deliver outcomes within defined quality, time, and compliance expectations.

  • Planning andprioritization:creates integrated plans,identifiesprerequisites, resolves resource gaps, andmaintainsdisciplined execution across concurrent workstreams.

  • Risk and dependencymanagement:independentlyidentifiescomplex and interrelated risks,developsmitigation actions,managescross-team dependencies, and proactively escalates significant issues with recommendations.

  • Stakeholder management andinfluence:builds long-term working relationships, adapts communication to the audience, resolves conflict, and drives consensus and accountability across functional groups.

  • Business and technicalawareness:understands business drivers and applies sufficient technology, cybersecurity, data, vendor, legal, and service management awareness to engage the right experts and inform delivery decisions.

  • Executive communication: produces concise, decision-ready reporting and communicates program status, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders.

  • Data-driven problemsolving:uses performance data, root cause analysis, and practical judgment toidentifybottlenecks, evaluate options, and implement durable improvements.

  • Change leadership and continuousimprovement:promotes new delivery practices, challenges inefficient ways of working constructively, and translates lessons learned into measurable process improvements.

  • Digital fluency: advancedpro

About McKesson

McKesson Corporation provides medicines, pharmaceutical supplies, information and care management products and services across the healthcare industry. The Company operates in two segments. The McKesson Distribution Solutions segment delivers ethical drugs, medical-surgical supplies and equipment and health and beauty care products throughout North America. This segment also provides specialty pharmaceutical solutions for biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturers, sells financial, operational and clinical solutions for pharmacies (retail, hospital, long-term care) and provides consulting, outsourcing and other services. The McKesson Technology Solutions segment delivers enterprise-wide clinical, patient care, financial, supply chain, strategic management and software solutions. In July 2011, the Company acquired Portico Systems from Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. On March 25, 2012, it acquired the independent banner and franchise businesses of Katz Group Canada Inc. McKesson Distribution Solutions delivers pharmaceuticals to retail pharmacies and institutional providers like hospitals and health systems. They operate pharmaceutical distribution centers across the country, serving customers in all 50 states. They also deliver a comprehensive offering of health care products, technology, equipment and related services to the alternate site market, including physician offices, surgery centers, long-term care facilities and home care businesses across the country. McKesson is currently the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America. McKesson also operates McKesson Canada and has an equity holding in Nadro, a leading distributor in Mexico.

McKesson Careers

Join McKesson, a leading global healthcare company, and be part of a team that is redefining the future of healthcare. With a variety of job opportunities available, McKesson is the perfect place to advance your career, whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out. Work You’ll Do At McKesson, we are committed to improving care in every setting—one product, one partner, one patient at a time. We’re seeking talented professionals to join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, diversity, and leadership. Our employees are driven by a deep sense of purpose and a desire for continuous growth and improvement. Empower Your Future in Healthcare With positions ranging from internships to leadership roles, McKesson offers unparalleled employment opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career. Our commitment to diversity training ensures that all team members have the opportunity to thrive. Join a team where your skills will be honed, your professional growth will be supported, and where you can genuinely see the difference you make in the lives of patients around the world. Innovative Work Environment McKesson is at the forefront of healthcare innovation. Our team is constantly exploring new ways to improve patient outcomes and streamline care processes. This commitment to innovation is what sets us apart and what makes McKesson an exciting place to work. Career Development and Benefits McKesson believes in nurturing the potential of its employees through robust career development programs and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life and well-being. From leadership training to health and wellness benefits, we ensure our team members are equipped to meet their professional and personal goals. Explore Job Opportunities Whether you’re looking for an internship to kickstart your career, or a senior position to utilize your extensive experience, McKesson offers a range of opportunities. Explore our open positions and find where you can make a difference at McKesson. Stay Connected Join Our Team Search for open positions that match your skills and interests. We are looking for passionate, curious, and solution-driven team players who are ready to take the next step in their careers. Keep Up to Date Stay ahead with career tips, insider perspectives, and industry-leading insights you can put to use today—all from the people who work here. Networking and Professional Growth At McKesson, networking and professional growth are part of our everyday environment. We encourage our employees to connect, share, and learn from each other to foster personal and professional development. Job Alert Emails Personalize your subscription to receive job alerts, latest news, and insider tips tailored to your preferences. Discover the exciting and rewarding career opportunities that await you at McKesson. Join McKesson today and be part of a team that is dedicated to shaping the future of healthcare.
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Size
58,000 employees
Market Cap
$53.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$4.1 billion
Founded
1833
5 Year Trend
+5.9%
Revenue
$237.6 billion
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