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Senior Director, Application Modernization Solutions

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What makes a successful Senior Director, Application Modernization Solutions? Here are the top traits.

  • Conceptual
  • Proactive
  • Problem-Solver
  • Strategic
  • Technologically Savvy
  • Visual Thinker

Culture

Accomplish

Make an impact by using your problem-solving skills to assure maximum “uptime” for our products and a smooth experience for our customers, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Innovate

Monitor and analyze insights on the next steps of improving care through our evolving data and technology tools.

From Creating

solutions that help break down affordability barriers to improving distribution that helps maintain drug efficacy, you’ll play a key role in shaping a global industry.

Benefits

  • Coverage you can rely on

    • Medical, Dental, and Vision
    • Health Spending Accounts
    • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Benefits that go beyond your base pay

    • 401(k) (U.S.)
    • Pension (Canada)
    • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Support for total well-being

    • Mental Health Programs
    • Flexible Schedules
    • Paid Time Off
    • Wellness Program
    • Education Reimbursement
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Flexible Work Environment
  • A global leader of inclusion

    McKesson’s commitment to diversity and inclusion starts at the top. We have also been named a Best Employer for Diversity by Forbes.

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.

Job Title: Senior Director, IT Application Modernization Solutions

Job Summary

As the Sr. Director, IT Application Modernization Solutions you’ll work with McKesson senior executives’ leaders across the business to enhance and support Generics landscape.  This role will guide the development of McKesson’s Generics business strategy, manage a portfolio of transformation initiatives, and direct enterprise communications and change management necessary to implement the new business operating model. This role will also manage the day-to-day operations and periodically conduct assessments of future needs and opportunities, as well as challenges faced by the organization and meet SLA.

This role serves as the primary contact to deliver applications and integrations to the Generics business unit.  This individual will maintain a portfolio of strategic initiatives across the enterprise, develop customer application as needed and integrations to ERP system and recommend portfolio changes to maximize the return on investment.

This role requires significant work across a federated organization and the development and application of governance processes, portfolio management, and change management. This position ensures alignment business initiatives, operational excellence with best practices in the cloud native development with the agile delivery method.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish strong relationships across both business and IT leadership; engage and align key stakeholders; establish cadence and agenda for key leadership meetings.
  • Develop and maintain professional relationships with third parties, centers of excellence, and owners of various information systems to resolve complex issue and improve service delivery.
  • Provide resolutions to a diverse range of complex problems, use judgement within defined policies, laws, programs and practices.
  • Manage escalations / appeal from clients in a timely and professional matter while reinforcing company culture / policies and controlling McKesson risk of non-compliance / lawsuit.
  • Stay informed of market best practice and applicable laws.
  • Ensure documentation of process and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications :

Requires a minimum of 15+ years of professional experience in IT application transformation and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization and people motivation skills. 

Critical Skills

  • 15+ years of Application Development and System development life cycle
  • Successfully led the transformation of applications to align with modern technological standards, utilizing a technology stack that includes Java, microservices, SOAP, REST, React/Angular with Azure/AWS/GCP, or .Net, WebAPI, React/Angular with AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Experience in design thinking and can apply to support problem solving and development of learning solutions
  • Prior experience managing direct reports required
  • Prior experience managing vendors to their timelines and budgets
  • Review SOW’s, estimations and handle the IT delivery timeline
  • Excellent skills in organization and detail-orientation.
  • Knowledge and experience in complex/technical project management and continuous improvement in an automation driven environment.
  • Proficient computer skills and experience using Microsoft Office suite of products

Additional Knowledge & Skills

  • Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team.
  • Ability to collaborate with multiple, diverse teams.
  • Organization skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Ability to foster a community which will attract and retain talent.
  • Works under limited direction. Receive general guidance and oversight from VP in the form of work objectives and strategy alignment, but typically leads independently.
  • Ability to anticipate client’s needs, to analyze trends, produce business cases, SOP’s and meaningful analysis.
  • Proven experience in influencing business leaders towards change, and business process alignment and improvement.
  • Excellent oral and written communications.
  • Ability to create impactful presentations and deliver to executive staff.

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.   

Travel requirement: 10% across the US

*****Relocation assistance is not budgeted for this role******

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

$177,200 - $295,400

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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

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