Lead Strategic Business Consultant

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Company Profile

McKesson Corporation is a global leader in healthcare supply chain management solutions, retail pharmacy, community oncology and specialty care, and healthcare information solutions. McKesson partners with pharmaceutical manufacturers, providers, pharmacies, governments, and other organizations in healthcare to help provide the right medicines, medical products, and healthcare services to the right patients at the right time, safely and cost-effectively.

United by our I2CARE shared principles, our employees work every day to innovate and deliver opportunities that make our customers and partners more successful - all for the better health of patients. McKesson has been named a "Most Admired Company" in the healthcare wholesaler category by FORTUNE, a "Best Place to Work" by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and a topmilitary-friendly companyby Military Friendly. For more info, visit

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Please Note - This is an Evergreen requisition that will be used to fill current and/or future opportunities across McKesson as they become available.

Job Summary

McKesson is seeking to add a Lead Strategic Business Consultant . McKesson Customer Distribution Experience PMO is currently seeking a Lead Strategic Business Consultant responsible for the management and delivery of enterprise strategic initiatives. The Lead Consultant will manage large-scale, cross-functional teams to deliver projects within scope, budget, timeline and with focused outcomes.

In addition, the Lead Consultant must act in a consultative manner to assist business partners in analysis of business processes, and in systems and users' needs in relation to the business requirements identified.

The Lead Consultant should also champion the different project/program methodologies, including Agile/SAFe framework to drive a more nimble and agile project experience within the organization and with our business partners.

Finally, the Lead Consultant will act as the project liaison with business partners/vendors, both internal and external to McKesson.The Lead Consultant will plan, organize, monitor and manage several strategic initiatives (a project portfolio), and is able to collaboratively co-manage projects with other Strategic Business Consultants, ensures the appropriate plans are in place to resolve any issues or project health deficiencies, and can provide clear and consistent communication across the org.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the development of business cases for internal strategic projects, whose goals align with the enterprise vision, mission, and business strategies of the organization.

• Provide strategic and tactical directions for all aspects of delivery of a process.

• Extremely consultative and influential; provides partners with alternate solutions and recommendations for processes, systems, and solutions.

• Conducts business analysis activities using different methodologies as needed for each project.

• Develops detailed project plans, implementation schedules, project cost estimates, resource plans, and budgets. Coordinates activities, defines deliverables and milestones, and participates in team assignments. Sets and controls scope.

• Identifies project critical path and dependencies to other ongoing initiatives within the businesses.

• Identifies project risks and possible mitigations.

• Takes lead in change management process for each project; anticipates change leadership needs for business.

• Ability to design, develop, or modify business processes, with identification of bottlenecks and process capacities. Ability to map as-is and to-be business processes.

• Collaborates with business partners to devise/modify processes to solve complex problems and/or improve existing processes.

• Ability to understand and articulate the To-Be vision and to champion it across the organization.

• Tracks project issues through resolution during pre- and post-implementation phases.

• Manage project activities and tasks, monitor processes, and any business, IT, technical issue resolutions.

• Leads/conducts/participates in all aspects of the project, including requirements identification, analysis, design and development, testing (including User Acceptance Testing), and training.

• Manages and monitors project budget and timeline.

• Facilitates and participates in daily scrum, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings.

• Facilitates, in collaboration with IT partners and business, the backlog grooming process and works with the product, development, and business teams to size features, enhancements, understand dependencies, constraints, risks, etc.

• Supports improvement of project delivery through process improvement and operational excellence.

• Coaches and mentors team in the adoption and maturity of the Agile/SAFe methodologies and other PM methodologies.

• Provide regular project status updates to stakeholders and business leadership.

• Collaborates with external vendors on various project delivery assessments and initiatives.

• Manages the integration of vendor tasks, and tracks vendor deliverables.

• Provides thought leadership on initiatives gained through research and benchmarking analysis as needed; anticipate trends and ensure appropriate solutions for the business.

• Demonstrated strong, collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders.

• Measures the project solution benefits and key measures of success post-implementation to ensure project benefits are realized.

Minimum Requirement & Education

• 4-year degree in business or related field or equivalent experience.

• Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience.

• Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications.

Critical Skills

• 10+ years of experience managing strategic initiatives, preferably with process and technology focus.

• 5+ years of consultative experience in a project management-type role.

• Demonstrated utilization of project management methodologies, especially Agile/SAFe project delivery.

• Experience working as a project manager or process consultant in a supply chain organization (distribution/logistics, contact center, inventory, etc.) environment.

• Proficient in all MS Office products.

• Working knowledge of Visio or other project/program management software.

• Prior experience with transformation technologies, including Salesforce technology and artificial intelligence.

• Strong financial and business acumen with ability to create and defend a business case to show value/benefit of project initiatives.

• Experience with organizational, process, and technology projects as well as change leadership best practices.

Additional Skills

• Tenured, proven track record managing cross-functional projects ranging in size, complexity, and impact; management/utilization, delivery against scheduled commitments, risk mitigation, issue management, and effective management of client expectations.

• Demonstrated leadership, managerial, consultative, collaborative, influencing, and negotiation skills.

• Demonstrated change leadership capabilities and knowledge.

• Strong analytical background to understand how to leverage data to influence business decisions.

• Demonstrated ability to build high trust relationships with key stakeholders (including business partners and vendors) and ability to communicate with and influence senior level executives.

• Demonstrated conflict resolution and problem-solving skills with focus on openness, honesty, and respect.

• Ability to be flexible and quickly adapt to change and high growth environments.

• Ability to manage a portfolio of diverse large-scale projects/programs across multiple business partners with multiple geographical locations.

• Proven ability to coach, mentor and motivate project team members.

• Demonstrated ability to measure and achieve projective objectives.

• Exceptional communication skills- written, verbal, presentation, and meeting facilitation.

• Outstanding organizational skills with a high attention to detail.

• Ability to work in a constantly changing environment.

• Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt preferred.

• Relevant McKesson experience is preferred; healthcare industry experience highly advantageous.

Work Environment

• Fully remote work environment with ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.

• If the selected candidate lives within a 50-mile radius of our Irving Office, the Employee will have a hybrid schedule and be required to work on-site a minimum of two (2) days per week , with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific in-office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.

• Must be authorized to work in the US unrestricted - This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

McKesson complies with all applicable U.S. immigration laws and regulations. The Company does not provide employer support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment benefit for this role.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g., H1B, O1, E3, H1B1, TN, F1 OPT, F1 STEM OPT, F1 CPT, etc.) now or in the future.

If you will require McKesson to provide immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future, you should not apply for this position.

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