Lead Technology Portfolio Management Leader

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Job Title: Lead Technology Portfolio Management Leader

Current Need:

The PSaS Portfolio Leader is a senior strategic role within McKesson Technology’s Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO)—a centralized function that enables consistent portfolio management, matures project and program capabilities, and enforces standards to drive value from investments. As the portfolio lead for the Pharmaceutical Solutions and Services (PSaS) business, this individual will align investments with enterprise priorities, optimize cost structures, and influence executive stakeholders through clear, data-driven storytelling. Success in this role requires strong portfolio governance, financial discipline, and the ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments—bringing structure, focus, and clarity to complex initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead portfolio intake process and prioritization meetings with cross functional partners and influence across teams to ensure alignment with the strategy and achieve business goals.
• Lead and facilitate creation of baseline financials for new initiatives in partnership with service managers, ensuring clarity and alignment with key stakeholders.
• Monitor and track the portfolio health, progress, and interdependencies with other teams, and identifies impacts and recommends sequencing of the work.
• Lead connectivity between delivery teams, finance partners and other portfolio leads, influencing decisions to achieve successful business outcomes.
• Understand capacity constraints across the delivery teams, drive visibility and facilitate alignment of priorities and trade-offs needed.
• Establish and facilitate regular portfolio reviews to ensure visibility to execution progress, financials, capacity challenges, project risks and outcomes/value.
• Analyzes data on projects, resources, and workloads and derives actionable insights for the service managers and the senior leadership. Ensure quality and accuracy of portfolio data within the portfolio tool.
• Drive adoption of the portfolio tool with assigned teams, by providing communication and support on processes and expectations.
• Provide aggregate reporting on portfolio health and prepare information for executive presentations in a digestible and crisp format.
• Establish clarity and connect the dots across multiple teams, while employing standard ways of working with other portfolio leads.
• Ensure projects follow governance framework that provide visibility to project lifecycle and ensure projects have completed all the necessary work to move to the next stage. 
• Oversee and ensure approval for all Change Requests for both budget and schedule deviations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met for portfolio information.
• Flex between tactical project level conversations and strategic portfolio conversations and adapt communication to the audience.

Required Skills and Experience

• Typically requires 10 + years of experience.
• Requires at least 5+ years of program and/or portfolio management experience.
• Requires at least 3+ years of experience within a technology focused area (IT Application Modernization.)

Critical Skills and experiences

• Exceptional executive presentation, communication, and influence management skills.
• Experience working with VP's, SVP's / C-suites on a regular basis
• Program management leadership experience, both directly leading large programs (not project management) and program/project managers.
• Experience overseeing large portfolios and driving strategic alignment, prioritization, managing their investments & value realization, preferably within technology space, but general technology experience coupled with business portfolio management is acceptable.
• Experience delivering results by collaborating and influencing business and technology delivery teams in a highly matrixed organization.
• Proven stakeholder management skills & building credibility with executive leadership.
• Ability to intentionally flex between strategy and detail and adapt style to different levels of the organization.
• Experience driving organizational transformation and change management.
• Ability to make complex concepts simple and convey it laymen’s terms.
• Demonstrated ability to establish collaborative relationships and move with speed while bringing people along.
• High degree of emotional maturity and ability to remain calm and focused under pressure.

Additional Knowledge & Skills desired but not required.

• Experience managing technology portfolio for a business unit is high desirable.
• Experience working in large matrixed organizations is highly desirable.
• Experience working with portfolio tools (Planview, Clarity, etc.) is desirable.
• Experience in a highly regulated industry is desirable.
• Certification(s) in SAFe Agile, Prince2 / APM, PMP and/or Lean Six Sigma desirable.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Travel: Hybrid role and may have to travel within the country up to 10%

Relocation 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

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