Marketing Operations Project Manager

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

The Strategy & Marketing team at McKesson Medical-Surgical is looking for a project management rockstar to join our Marketing Operations team!

This role plays an integral part in the planning and coordination of our strategic marketing campaigns with a heavy focus on flight management and project management. You’d be the conductor of an orchestra, making sure that our Marketing projects, teams, and resources are sequenced at just the right time, creating a masterpiece.  Sound interesting?  Keep reading.

Key responsibilities for this role include creating & managing long range planning processes & tools; adjusting priorities for in-year opportunities outside of our long-range plan; identification and solving for team capacity/resource constraints; lead/facilitate cross functional POD meetings; provide budget allocation/spend visibility; executing retrospectives; and performing other general project management tasks as needed.

Still interested?  Cool!  If you can say yes to all of the below, you just might be the person we’re looking for!

• Are you calm under pressure and are easily able to juggle multiple activities?
• Do you work well within both existing processes and whitespace?
• Can you command a room, remain objective, and keep a group focused?
• Are you able to see through the clutter and chaos to create structure and order?

If you answered yes to all of the above, we want to talk to you!

Key Responsibilities:

1.  Facilitate & Project manage assigned POD meetings which includes scheduling meetings, setting agendas, providing notes/next steps, creating presentations, providing budget updates, etc.

2. Create & manage our long range & backlog planning tools and processes.  This includes development/implementation of tools, automations, and integrations that drive stakeholder transparency into our planned work.   

3.  Support quarterly/monthly/weekly planning meetings across Strategy & Marketing with varying levels of stakeholders.  Includes communicating/reporting out on all work in various stages of our pipeline, shifts/resequencing of work, etc.

4.  Identify & provide solutions for operational inefficiencies in assigned POD to increase speed to market and ensure on time delivery of projects.  Includes facilitating POD retrospectives.

5.  Perform other Marketing Operations & Project Management tasks as needed.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

Critical Skills/Business Experience

• Planning & Flight Management:  3+ years experience as a flight/traffic manager (or equivalent role) focused on backlog/long range planning, sequencing, and prioritization of projects.
• Project management:  3+ years experience as a project/program manager within a large organization. 
• Communication & Collaboration:  Strong relationship builder that understands how to navigate a complex organization to get things accomplished; Must have exceptional skills in interpersonal, written, and visual communication.
• Organization & Process:  Must be detail-oriented, meticulously organized, and have direct experience in establishing/following process.
• Proactiveness/Self-starter: Must be a self-starter that has experience working in a mixed environment of structure and white space.

Preferred, Nice to Have, Specialized Knowledge/Skills –

• Agile/CSM and/or PMP certification
• Experience in Microsoft Visio, Adobe Workfront, DevOps or other workflow/project management tools

Education: Degree or equivalent and typically requires 5+ years of relevant experience.

Working Conditions:

Environment (Office, warehouse, etc.) – work remotely and occasional work in office

General Office Demands

Able to travel approximately 5%

At McKesson, we care about the well-being of the patients and communities we serve, and that starts with caring for our people. That’s why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. Our Total Rewards offerings serve the different needs of our diverse employee population and ensure they are the healthiest versions of themselves. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. 

Our Base Pay Range for this position

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.Qualified applicants will not be disqualified from consideration for employment based upon criminal history.

McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.

Current employees must apply through the internal career site.

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