Skip to main content
Search Jobs

Saved Jobs

Recruitment Fraud Warning

Job Details

Tomorrow's health is... Defining a new possible.

Operations Manager, Strategy Plasma

Erlanger, Kentucky, Columbus, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, Mason, Ohio, Shepherdsville, Kentucky Job ID JR0149602 Category Business Process Consultant (Six Sigma), Business & Strategy Post Date Jun. 26, 2026
Apply

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 Operations Manager, Plasma Strategy is the primary liaison between Plasma Operations and external clients, responsible for translating client requirements into operational execution, driving performance improvement, and enabling data-driven decision making across the network.

This role plays a key part in building operational scorecards, improving end-to-end performance, and ensuring alignment across operations, transportation, and service delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

Client & Stakeholder Management

  • Serve as the single point of contact for client-facing operational performance and issue resolution

  • Translate client needs into clear, actionable operational priorities

  • Lead recurring performance reviews, scorecards, and business updates

  • Communicate performance trends, risks, and improvement opportunities

Operational Performance

  • Own and track KPIs across service, cost, quality, and reliability

  • Identify performance gaps and lead root cause analysis

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to implement and sustain improvements

  • Ensure alignment with client expectations and service commitments

Continuous Improvement

  • Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives across plasma operations

  • Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and process improvement methodologies

  • Facilitate process mapping, Kaizen events, and workflow optimization

  • Track and report operational and financial impact of initiatives

Transportation & Network Coordination

  • Partner with transportation teams on routing, network design, and carrier performance

  • Monitor KPIs such as on-time delivery, cost, and utilization

  • Support planning, exception management, and variability reduction

Reporting & Analytics

  • Build and maintain operational dashboards and scorecards

  • Ensure data accuracy and consistency across reporting

  • Provide actionable insights to drive decisions

  • Support ad hoc analysis tied to client and operational needs

Priority will be given to candidates who reside in the Erlanger, KY metropolitan area.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role presently or in the future.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

  • Typically 7+ years of experience in operations, logistics, or continuous improvement roles

Critical Skills (Must Have):

  • Experience serving as aclient-facing or cross-functional liaisonwith strong stakeholder management skills

  • Provencontinuous improvement and problem-solving experience(Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent)

  • Demonstrated ability toanalyze data and drive measurable operational improvements

  • Strongcommunication skills, including executive-level reporting and storytelling

  • Ability to work independently in across-functional, fast-paced environment

  • Stronganalytical mindsetwith structured problem-solving approach


Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):

  • Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher) or Kaizen experience

  • Experience inplasma operations, healthcare logistics, or regulated environments

  • Proficiency inPower BI and/or Tableau

  • Working knowledge ofSQL and advanced Excel

  • Experience buildingoperational scorecards and dashboards

  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving capability


Work Environment:

  • Hybrid role based in Erlanger, KY (3 days onsite)

  • Occasional travel to distribution centers

  • Work across office, warehouse, and transportation environments


We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$105,800 - $176,300

McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:

McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.


McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.

McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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 (United States) Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com or (Canada) Accessibility@mckesson.ca. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.

Join us at McKesson!

Apply
Explore Location

McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:

  • McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
  • McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
  • McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com

You haven't viewed any jobs yet.

View available opportunities

You haven't saved any jobs yet.

View available opportunities