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The state of healthcare is complex, but our shared purpose isn’t: Help people get the medicine they need to live healthier lives. CoverMyMeds solves medication access challenges for patients throughout every step of their journey through a unified brand that now encompasses RelayHealth, RxCrossroads by McKesson, McKesson Prescription Automation and CoverMyMeds.

Our combined experience spans nearly 90 years and together, we’re applying our expertise to solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare. We accelerate innovative solutions for problems like medication affordability and adherence in way that everyone wins — from providers to pharmacies, payers to biopharma and, especially, patients. By combining automation and expert intervention, the company provides prior authorization, prescription decision support, specialty patient support, core adjudication network, patient assistance programs, clinical and behavioral adherence and patient empowerment solutions.

We’re proud to be an integral part of McKesson Corporation and embody the shared values and leadership behaviors of the greater organization.

We understand the importance of a system that works together. Your expertise, drive and passion can help us carry out our mission to improve lives and advance healthcare.

Are you eager to make a positive and lasting difference in the lives of millions of people? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments and feed off collaborating with others to solve problems? Do you want to do consequential work that shapes a growing business? Do you love toggling between big-picture strategic thinking and the tiniest of details? Are you a leader of leaders, dedicated to helping people grow in their careers and leave a mark on the business each day? If this describes you and you’ve got a track record of success doing this work, you’ve come to the right place!

CoverMyMeds (CMM) is growing fast and with growth comes change. The Business Activation & Impact team is looking for a Vice President, Business Planning to play one of the most influential and important roles on the CMM team. In this role, working alongside the Strategy Team and business leaders, you’ll contribute to the important work of defining our strategic plan. You will lead the planning effort for our strategic portfolio and ensure its alignment to our vision, mission, LRP, and strategy. With your team, you’ll be responsible for monitoring and evaluating our Segment’s progress and facilitating the conversation about what we need to do to ensure we deliver on our commitments. Simply put, your role will be to figure out what we’re going to do, then make sure we do it.

This work can’t be done by just one person, so you’ll work in partnership with business leaders and their teams across the CMM business segment. You’ll also enjoy the collaboration with enabling functions, especially Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Finance, and HR and your colleagues on the Business Activation & Impact Team. We believe the more the merrier!

Your success is defined by the outcomes you achieve and the feedback from stakeholders. Did the approach deliver the necessary outcomes? Did we achieve the ambitious targets we set? Did the employees understand what was happening and why? Did leaders praise your teaming, bias for action, and thoughtful approach to solutions? Did you lean on your experience and incorporate the ideas of others to design effective paths to the defined future state?

Position Description and Key Responsibilities:

The Vice President, Business Planning is responsible for shaping and monitoring the CMM strategic plan/priorities for the segment Leadership Team. This work will require you to:

Develop a robust annual planning methodology that integrates the best of the historic practices and reflects the unified Segment. This will require design of the process, roles, tools, and calendar, as well as roles on the business planning team. This necessitates learning the business landscape, understanding business requirements and stakeholder expectations, an awareness of the “big picture”, creative problem solving, influencing and building commitment to the redesigned processes.
Define our fiscal year strategic priorities aligned with the CMM vision, mission, LRP and strategy by facilitating a participative, segment-wide annual planning process. The output of this work is clarity on and alignment to the most important work to deliver on our commitments and add more value to employees, customers, patients, and shareholders.
Clarify and validate the path to realization of the total plan given interdependencies and related work. Define the value proposition for each strategic priority. Partner with the strategy and business teams to define each priority with specificity, clear and achievable targets, and a plan to measure. Confirm adequate cross-functional sponsorship among the LT exists where necessary.
Develop the quarterly review process as well as a simple but effective monthly portfolio reporting process. Provide accurate and timely progress and outcome monitoring and insights through design and execution of portfolio reporting. Coordinate data collection and dialogue with a basic tool and process to track our progress, make decisions, and take actions, making it faster and easier to achieve our goals
In partnership with Business Activation & Impact team members, design the process to publish results to build organization awareness to priorities and progress against those priorities.
Serve as the CMM point of contact for McKesson’s team responsible for the Enterprise scorecard, aligning priorities to the Enterprise and providing timely progress reports and annual results.
Partner with McKesson teams to develop CMM-specific education content for various learning opportunities.

To qualify for this role you must have:

10+ years in business planning function
10+ years in program/project mgmt
5+ years in strategy definition
Experience in a large, complex, matrixed organizations

To be successful in this role you must be able to:

Improve business performance in the context of business and financial conditions, tightly linked to the business strategy, mission, vision, and values
Make complex decisions shaped by data and stakeholder needs
Plan and prioritize work to achieve organizational goals
Attract, evaluate, select, and develop diverse, high caliber talent to meet current and future business needs
Direct the work of others – solid and dotted line – by providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles
Tailor your communication style to work well with stakeholders at all levels in the organization
Build trusted partnerships to work with others on shared objectives
Influence people through effective communications, persuade with data, build commitment and support of others
Assess and maneuver through complex processes, policies, and organization dynamics

Operate with enthusiasm to take on new opportunities and tackle tough challenges
Demonstrate resiliency and situational adaptability

Education

4-year degree in business strategy or related field or equivalent experience. Advanced degrees preferred.

This role can be remote but a preference to be a near a hub location

McKesson Total Rewards

McKesson believes superior performance – individual and team – that helps us drive innovations and solutions to promote better health should be recognized and rewarded. We provide a competitive compensation and benefits programs to attract, retain and motivate a high-performance workforce, and it’s flexible enough to meet the different needs of our diverse employee population.

This is a full-time, salaried position with an expected salary range of $173,000 to $275,000. A competitive salary is determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as alignment with market data
Other Compensation: This position may be eligible to participate in the annual management incentive plan
Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement
Other benefits, subject to elections, eligibility, and collective bargaining agreement terms: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), 401k and Stock Purchase Programs

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.Qualified applicants will not be disqualified from consideration for employment based upon criminal history.

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 McKessonTalentAcquisition@mckesson.com . Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.

Current employees must apply through the internal career site.

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