McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. The Lead, System Product Management is responsible for defining and driving the vision, strategy, and lifecycle of MAPS pharmacy automation system products, serving as the senior product authority and leading through influence and expertise.
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
- Approved system roadmaps aligned to enterprise strategy
- On‑time delivery of roadmap commitments
- Demonstrated value realization and system P&L performance
- Improved stability, availability, and performance
- Reduction in critical defects and incidents
- Effective management of technical debt and lifecycle risk
- Positive feedback from business, technology, and quality partners
- Clear communication of priorities, trade‑offs, and outcomes
- Increased adoption of system design tools and approved solution components
- Improved consistency and scalability of system designs
- Growth of product management and system design capability
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