Success Profile
What makes a successful Sr. Director Program Manager? Here are the top traits.
- Conceptual
- Proactive
- Problem-Solver
- Strategic
- Technologically Savvy
- Visual Thinker
Culture
Accomplish
Make a meaningful impact by using your problem-solving skills to push the boundaries of innovation in healthcare, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Innovate
Foster a digital mindset to drive IT transformation across McKesson through our evolving data and technology tools.
Grow
Join a supportive environment where you can advance your career and develop both personally and professionally.
Benefits
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Coverage you can rely on
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Health Spending Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
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Benefits that go beyond your base pay
- 401(k) (U.S.)
- Pension (Canada)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Support for total well-being
- Mental Health Programs
- Flexible Schedules
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Program
- Education Reimbursement
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Flexible Work Environment
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A culture powered by belonging
By fostering a culture of belonging, we advance our goal of being the best place to work in healthcare—connecting the right talent to the right roles to solve our most critical challenges.
Responsibility
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 Program Manager integrates business, functional, technical, and operational efforts, manages program risks and dependencies, and serves as the primary interface between executive stakeholders, business leaders, system integrators, and delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Accountability
Own overall SAP program delivery from initiation through go‑live and stabilization.
Establish clear program objectives, scope, milestones, and success metrics aligned to business outcomes.
Serve as the single point of accountability for program performance and delivery health.
Planning & Execution Management
Develop and maintain the integrated program plan, including dependencies across functional, technical, data, testing, cutover, and deployment workstreams.
Ensure disciplined execution against the plan, proactively managing schedule, scope, budget, and resource alignment.
Drive integrated decision‑making and resolve cross‑workstream conflicts.
Governance & Stakeholder Management
Establish and run program governance, including SteerCo, design reviews, and delivery cadence forums.
Provide clear, concise, and transparent status reporting to executive leadership.
Facilitate timely decisions by presenting options, risks, impacts, and recommendations.
Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
Proactively identify, assess, and manage program‑level risks and issues.
Own mitigation and contingency planning for high‑impact delivery risks.
Manage cross‑stream dependencies to minimize disruption and delivery surprises.
Financial & Vendor Management
Own program budget, forecasts, and financial controls.
Manage system integrators and vendors to contracted scope, quality, and performance expectations.
Ensure effective use of internal and external resources.
Quality, Readiness & Go‑Live Oversight
Ensure quality and readiness across solution design, build, testing, data conversion, and cutover.
Validate readiness criteria are met for testing phases, deployment, and go‑live.
Own overall go‑live orchestration and transition to steady‑state operations.
Minimum Requirements
Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 13+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).
Critical Skills
Extensive experience leading large-scale, complex enterprise programs, including SAP implementations.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple cross-functional workstreams and dependencies.
Proven experience working with executive stakeholders and facilitating complex decision-making.
Strong experience managing program budgets, forecasts, and vendor performance.
Enterprise program management and delivery leadership
SAP program lifecycle expertise
Executive-level communication and stakeholder management
Risk, issue, and dependency management
Financial and vendor management
Governance, planning, and execution discipline
Additional Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
Ability to influence without direct authority
Experience operating in large, matrixed organizations
High degree of accountability and ownership mindset
Key Interfaces
Executive Sponsors & Steering Committee
Business Process Owners and Functional Leads
Architecture, Integration, and Technical Leaders
Data, Testing, Cutover, and Deployment Leads
System Integrators, Vendors, and PMO
Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
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
$145,700 - $242,900McKesson 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.
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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.