Marketing Manager, Supplier Marketing

Company: MCKESSON
Location: Richmond
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

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.

McKesson Corporation is a global leader in healthcare supply chain management solutions, retail pharmacy, community oncology and specialty care, and healthcare information solutions. McKesson partners with pharmaceutical manufacturers, providers, pharmacies, governments and other organizations in healthcare to help provide the right medicines, medical products and healthcare services to the right patients at the right time, safely and cost-effectively. United by our ICARE shared principles, our employees work every day to innovate and deliver opportunities that make our customers and partners more successful - all for the better health of patients. McKesson has been named a " Most Admired Company " in the healthcare wholesaler category by FORTUNE, a " Best Place to Work " by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, and a top military-friendly company by Military Friendly. For more information, visit www.mckesson.com .

Current Need

The McKesson Medical-Surgical team is looking for a Marketing Manager, Supplier Marketing to join the team in Richmond, VA.

Position Description

Are you a skilled marketer with experience in defining marketing strategy and project management? We're looking for a marketer who can think outside the box while helping to build marketing programs for our healthcare manufacturers (i.e. suppliers). Someone who can build relationships across a matrixed environment and execute on current supplier marketing programs.

A supplier marketer has 15+ suppliers that they work with throughout the year. Your marketing expertise is vital to ensuring that we deliver consistent, exceptional supplier marketing programs, while at the same time balancing the need to meet our internal goals and objectives. Programs range from large multi-channel, year-long programs to smaller, focused programs, all with the goal of driving awareness and sales for our suppliers' products. Success in this role will be measured by the successful implementation of programs along with maintaining or increasing supplier investment in marketing programs.

You'll be joining a team that gets a lot done at high levels of excellence and creativity. We enjoy our work, we're proud of the relationships we have with our suppliers, the programs we develop and support, and we're serious about quality and measuring and improving everything we do.

Interested? We want to hear from you!

In this role you will:

Be accountable for management and financial contribution goals of an assigned segment of the marketing services program:

• Turn supplier needs and business opportunities into compelling messages and campaigns that engage our audiences.
• Facilitate the annual planning process, including discovery, strategic alignment, multi-channel recommendations and calendarization of services.
• Manage program funnel and maintain annual views of portfolio.
• Develop, launch, and sell new services & programs to suppliers.
  • Build and maintain collaborative relationships with suppliers
  • Collaborate cross functionally to ensure that additional inputs into annual plans are considered.
  • Support large scale supplier events to ensure a positive supplier experience
  • Work with a broad team to develop, execute and maintain marketing services agreements.
  • Partner with Marketing teams to successfully implement your marketing strategy & needs.
    
    To be successful, you'll need to:
    
    • Be a strong member of a strong team: Bring your best and add strength to a results-oriented supplier marketing team.
    • Offer a consultative approach: Bring proven abilities and success in adding value with a customer-focused approach.
    • Continuous improvement: Research best practices and trends to deliver high performing programs for suppliers.
    • Detail-oriented: Track and manage MSA details for multiple suppliers, manage and communicate issues.
    • Bring an analytical mindset to the process: Conduct supplier needs analysis to ensure program relevance and value, identify program growth opportunities, assess, and evaluate existing programs and plans to identify opportunities for performance improvement
      
      Minimum Requirements
      
      4+ years of marketing experience.
      
      Critical Skills
      
      • 3+ years of project management experience.
      • Experience influencing cross-functionally. Strong communication skills - interpersonal, written, and visual.
      • Business maturity, with the ability to maintain composure in difficult situations.
      • Excellent management skills with the ability to lead, facilitate, motivate, and organize.
      • Deadline-driven task management experience with proven success.
      • Strong skills in MS Office.
        
        Additional Knowledge & Skills
        
        • Customer-first attitude
        • Ability to digest strategy & turn into a cohesive multi-channel marketing plan
        • Strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills
        • Polished & professional communication; excellent collaboration skills
        • Ability to quickly learn systems and processes
        • Ability to manage various tasks with different timelines; highly organized to manage high-volume tasks
        • Self-driven individual with natural orientation to detail
        • Technology experience with MS Office applications (strong PPT and Excel), Workfront, SharePoint and SalesForce.com
          
          Education
          
          4-year degree in business, marketing, or related field or equivalent experience. HS diploma required.
          
          Physical Requirements
          
          • Traditional office environment
          • Large percent of time performing desk-based work (computer, telephone) is required
          • Travel less than 10%
            
            Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorship is not available for this position.
            
            We take pride in our culture of connection and believe in a workplace where everyone can be their full, authentic self. We welcome and encourage veterans, individuals with disabilities and others with diverse perspectives to join our growing team. Your unique perspective and experience are valuable assets that can translate into a rewarding career path with us. Apply to join our team and help shape the future of healthcare!
            
            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
            
            $76,100 - $126,800
            
            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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