Senior Manager, Project Management — Health Systems

Cencora • Remote, KY

7d • $76,200 - $119,460

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Project Management leads large, high-visibility strategic initiatives across Cencora’s Health Systems segment. Initiatives may include customer-facing programs such as a national health system summit, projects related to policy changes, and other strategic priorities. The role is accountable for delivering programs on time and to a high standard, bringing structure to complex, matrixed work, aligning stakeholders, and communicating project status and decisions through clear, visual updates.

The position leads a portfolio of initiatives from planning and kickoff through execution and close-out. It partners with executive sponsors to define scope, goals, success measures, workplans, and timelines; coordinates across sales, marketing, solutions, executive, and operations teams; and tracks milestones, budgets, dependencies, and outcomes. The Senior Manager also drives team accountability, identifies and resolves risks, facilitates project meetings and decision forums, and presents executive-ready dashboards, timelines, summaries, and readouts.

The role builds relationships and alignment across a highly matrixed organization, establishes and improves project management standards, templates, and tools for the segment, and applies lessons learned to future initiatives and events. Travel for customer events is estimated at up to 20%.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 8 years of project or program management experience, including leading multiple high-visibility initiatives at the same time.
• Proven success working in a large, highly matrixed organization.
• Experience building and presenting project readouts and status updates to senior and executive audiences.
• Strong visual communication skills, advanced PowerPoint skills, and experience creating dashboards and executive-ready visuals.
• Track record of keeping teams on schedule and driving accountability without direct authority.
• Working knowledge of project management tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project, Asana, or similar.
• Willingness to travel for customer events, estimated at up to 20%.

Nice To Haves

• PMP, PgMP, or similar project management certification.
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical distribution, or health system environments.
• Experience managing large customer-facing events or conferences.
• Familiarity with healthcare policy or regulatory change initiatives.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project management for a portfolio of large, high-visibility Health Systems initiatives, including customer-facing programs, policy-driven changes, and other strategic priorities.
• Partner with executive sponsors to define project scope, goals, success measures, workplans, and timelines.
• Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously while balancing priorities and resources as the portfolio evolves.
• Plan and deliver initiatives from kickoff through execution and close-out, including customer-facing programs and events.
• Coordinate work across sales, marketing, solutions, executive, and operations teams.
• Track milestones, budgets, dependencies, and outcomes, and report results at initiative close.
• Hold cross-functional teams accountable for timelines and commitments, follow up, and escalate when needed.
• Identify risks, issues, and dependencies early and drive them to resolution.
• Run project meetings, working sessions, and decision forums.
• Build and present project readouts, status updates, and executive summaries for senior leaders.
• Translate complex project data into visual dashboards, timelines, and one-page summaries that show progress, risks, and decisions needed.
• Tailor communications for working teams and executive leadership.
• Build relationships and align stakeholders with competing priorities around shared goals and decisions.
• Establish and improve project management standards, templates, and tools for the segment.
• Capture lessons learned and apply them to future initiatives and events.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision care.
• Benefits supporting physical, emotional, financial, and social wellness.
• Support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.
• Training programs and professional development resources.
• Mentorship programs.
• Employee resource groups.
• Volunteer activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior