Lead Project Manager - CPM

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. The Senior Program/Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of key CPM initiatives across multiple business units, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and effective collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as the primary lead driving end to end CPM programs and projects, including contract, pricing, rebate, and compliance related initiatives across McKesson
• Provides organization, coordination, and leadership for cross functional teams to ensure CPM deliverables and milestones are achieved
• Develops and maintains detailed program plans including scope, deliverables, goals, budgets, dependencies, and timelines
• Ensures CPM workstreams execute according to the integrated program plan and proactively identifies and resolves roadblocks
• Monitors program status, KPIs, and qualitative and quantitative metrics, providing clear visibility to CPM and enterprise leadership
• Conducts regular program and SteerCo reviews to communicate progress, risks, decisions required, and next steps
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Identifies, documents, and mitigates key risks, issues, and dependencies across CPM programs, recommending actions to ensure successful outcomes
• Acts as the central connector across executives, cross functional partners, workstream leads, and technical teams, ensuring communication is clear, timely, and audience appropriate
• Translates complex CPM updates including risks, compliance implications, operational impacts, and technical dependencies into concise, actionable executive insights
• Elevates risks and decision points with context, options, and recommended paths forward for Sponsors and SteerCo
• Maintains high program visibility through consistent reporting cadences, dashboards, and milestone tracking
• Drives alignment and accountability across CPM stakeholders by setting clear expectations and fostering transparency
• Serves as a key liaison between CPM business leaders, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, Product, and MT to ensure shared understanding and alignment
• Partners closely with Legal and Compliance to ensure CPM solutions and processes meet regulatory and contractual requirements
• Works with Product and MT to ensure CPM requirements are appropriately scoped, prioritized, and reflected in delivery plans
• Facilitates structured problem solving and decision making aligned to CPM strategic objectives
• Engages directly with architects, engineers, and technical product partners to understand CPM solution options, system constraints, integrations, and feasibility
• Translates system behaviors, data flows, and solution designs into clear updates for nontechnical and executive audiences
• Maintains visibility into CPM technical workstreams to proactively surface dependencies, risks, and blockers
• Collaborates with MT partners to ensure CPM requirements are captured, validated, and tracked through delivery and implementation

Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent experience, typically requiring 10 or more years of relevant experience. Fewer years required with relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications
• Eight or more years of experience leading large scale, cross functional programs in highly matrixed environments, preferably within CPM, legal, pricing, or compliance domains
• Proven leadership, stakeholder management, facilitation, and executive communication skills
• Experience partnering with Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Product teams on complex, regulated initiatives
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, drug supply chain, or other highly regulated industries
• Technically fluent and comfortable partnering with MT and engineering teams. Strong systems thinker who connects process, data, and technology execution to business outcomes
• Robust understanding of program and project management methodologies and tools
• Ability to lead and influence without direct authority
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity, and multiple stakeholders in fast paced environments
• Strategic problem solving and decision-making capabilities
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
• Candidates must be authorized to work in USA. Sponsorship is not available for this role