McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that focuses on making quality healthcare more accessible and affordable. The Lead, System Product Management is responsible for defining the vision and strategy of pharmacy automation system products, leading through influence and expertise while ensuring the delivery of scalable and supportable solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the system product vision and multi‑year roadmap
- Translate business, quality, and technology needs into prioritized outcomes and investment recommendations
- Guide buy‑vs‑build decisions, major architectural direction, and vendor selection
- Define value hypotheses, success criteria, and expected outcomes for major investments
- Lead end‑of‑life planning, decommissioning, and migration strategies for legacy components
- Prioritize system initiatives across competing demands using an outcome‑based framework
- Lead complex initiatives across engineering, architecture, quality, operations, and vendors
- Drive alignment, manage dependencies, and support capital prioritization and deployment sequencing
- Ensure systems meet quality, compliance, and reliability expectations
- Manage risk, technical debt, and lifecycle concerns
- Govern system design tools (simulation, staffing models, utility estimates, process models) to ensure standardization and version control
- Govern approved solution components and service offerings to ensure scalability and enterprise alignment
- Use system‑level metrics to guide prioritization and roadmap adjustments
- Communicate roadmap progress, trade‑offs, and system health to senior and executive stakeholders
- Lead ongoing discovery with customers, operators, and internal users to identify needs and validate assumptions
- Maintain a clear product narrative aligned to MAPS strategy and customer outcomes
- Mentor product managers, product owners, and system leads
- Contribute to product management standards and organizational maturity
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Typically requires 10+ years of experience in product management, system ownership, platform leadership, or equivalent technical leadership roles
- Extensive experience in product management, system ownership, or platform leadership
- Proven ability to lead through influence and operate independently with senior stakeholders
- 5+ years of pharmacy automation industry experience preferred
- Power BI, Power Query, and SIMIO knowledge preferred