Senior Program Manager, Oncology & Multispecialty Tech Strategy

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Position Summary

The Senior Program Manager, Oncology and Multispecialty Strategy Tech Strategy leads the execution and continuous improvement of New Solutions Enablement across The US Oncology Network. The role manages multiple related initiatives within a complex program, coordinating intake, technology, cybersecurity, data governance, procurement, vendor management, legal, and IT service management reviews to ensure requests align with business priorities, McKesson standards, and expected outcomes.

Working with the Governance Lead, Sr. Product Program Manager, requesting practices, business leaders, and technology partners, this role defines and refines scope, facilitates cross-team planning, manages interdependencies, resolves resource and workflow gaps, and maintains clear accountability for milestones, decisions, and next actions. The Senior Program Manager provides indirect leadership across participating teams and operates with autonomy in a matrixed environment.

The successful candidate combines program management discipline, business and technical awareness, strong stakeholder influence, and data-driven decision-making. This role turns a complex, multi-system process into a transparent and trusted program while ensuring that speed does not compromise cybersecurity, data, vendor, legal, technology, or service management requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Program Planning and Strategic Alignment

Lead scope definition and refinement with business, practice, and technical stakeholders, ensuring New Solutions Enablement activities align with business goals, technology strategy, and approved governance requirements.

Develop and maintain an integrated program plan, milestones, decision points, resource needs, and dependencies across multiple concurrent solution requests and review workstreams.

Facilitate complex cross-initiative planning discussions, identify prerequisites, and coordinate solutions to resource or scheduling gaps across participating teams.

Define program success criteria with sponsors and stakeholders, connecting operational targets to transparency, compliance, cycle time, stakeholder experience, and business value.

Program Execution and Cross-Functional Delivery

Lead day-to-day execution across intake, assessment, review, approval, cataloging, and closure, ensuring each request has a clear owner, current status , next action, and target milestone.

Manage complex dependencies and handoffs across Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Procurement, Vendor Management, Legal, IT Service Management, architecture, technology teams, and requesting practices.

Lead scope and priority trade-off discussions, drive agreement on changes, and ensure decisions are documented, approved, and communicated across affected stakeholders.

Provide indirect leadership to cross-functional contributors, remove roadblocks, resolve conflicts, and escalate high-impact issues with recommended actions.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Ensure each request is evaluated against applicable McKesson technology, cybersecurity, data governance, vendor due diligence, legal, architecture, and IT service management standards before advancement.

Independently identify , assess, prioritize, and manage risks and issues across multiple requests; maintain risk and issue records, execute mitigation plans, and communicate significant exposures to program leadership.

Establish clear escalation paths and ensure exceptions are surfaced for decision rather than bypassed or resolved outside approved governance processes.

Maintain complete, accurate , and audit-ready program records across Asana and related systems of record, including status, ownership, decisions, conditions, approvals, and supporting documentation.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

Establish a strong cross-functional stakeholder network and serve as a trusted point of coordination for practices, business leaders, review teams, vendors, and technology partners.

Maintain feedback loops with key stakeholders to identify program adjustments that improve business value, predictability, and requester experience.

Develop and execute a stakeholder communication plan that provides clear status, risks, decisions, impacts, and next steps for different audiences.

Partner with senior stakeholders to resolve conflicts, negotiate commitments, manage expectations, and sustain alignment without direct authority.

Performance Reporting and Business Value

Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting for request volume, aging, cycle time, SLA performance, risk, dependencies, bottlenecks, and decision status.

Prepare the monthly New Solution Requests executive summary for business unit CIO approval, translating program data into actionable insights, decisions, and intervention priorities.

Track and report program milestones and performance, assess stakeholder feedback, and identify opportunities to improve value delivered across initiatives.

Use advanced analytics, automation, and AI-assisted insights where appropriate to improve forecasting, identify delivery risks, reduce manual follow-up, and strengthen prioritization.

Continuous Improvement and Change Adoption

Lead improvements to intake forms, questionnaires, review workflows, handoffs, reporting, and the approved solution catalog to reduce redundancy and improve data quality and throughput.

Facilitate lessons learned and retrospective reviews, perform root cause analysis on delays or recurring gaps, and ensure corrective actions have owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes.

Develop and refine delivery standards, procedures, templates, and tools that increase consistency across the program.

Support adoption of new ways of working by aligning stakeholders on the program vision, benefits, roles, and expected behaviors.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor's degree in business administration, information technology, healthcare administration, healthcare informatics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Typically 7+ years of progressive experience in project or program management, technology delivery, governance operations, portfolio management, business operations, or a related discipline.

Demonstrated experience managing multiple medium-to-large initiatives within a complex project or program where delivery outcomes carry meaningful business, operational, regulatory, or technology impact.

Proven ability to manage integrated plans, milestones, scope, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, governance activities, and executive reporting with substantial autonomy.

Experience leading cross-functional work and influencing business and technology stakeholders without direct authority.

Experience applying enterprise delivery methodologies, governance standards, workflow tools, and performance reporting practices in a matrixed organization.

Healthcare, health technology, regulated-industry , technology governance, vendor intake, risk management, cybersecurity, data governance, procurement, or legal review experience is preferred.

Required Skills and Competencies

Program management: applies advanced project and program management practices to plan and manage multiple related initiatives, balance scope and prioriti