Strategic Initiatives Manager, Enterprise PMO

Cencora; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 95,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Parental leave

Backup dependent care

Adoption assistance

Infertility coverage

Training programs

Mentorship

Employee resource groups

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Cencora seeks a Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives to drive a portfolio of high-visibility projects across USPAH. You will partner with senior leaders to define scope, milestones, and ownership, and translate complex data into clear leadership updates.

You will prepare executive materials, surface risks, and facilitate cross-functional sessions, building credible relationships with stakeholders and ensuring consistent reporting across programs.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of experience in strategic planning, program management, or a related field.
• Experience supporting senior leaders on enterprise-wide or cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to work with a high degree of confidentiality and discretion.
• Bachelor's degree in business, strategy, organizational development, or related field (MBA preferred).
• Experience in corporate strategy, chief of staff, or PMO.
• Background in healthcare, pharmaceutical distribution, or a similarly complex regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Support senior leadership in managing a portfolio of USPAH-wide strategic initiatives, ensuring clarity on scope, ownership, milestones, and progress.
• Prepare high-quality materials for leadership reviews, executive briefings, and cross-functional forums, translating complex information into clear and actionable formats.
• Track the status of strategic initiatives and proactively surface risks, blockers, and interdependencies to leadership.
• Facilitate working sessions and cross-functional meetings, ensuring outcomes are documented and action items are followed through.
• Conduct research and analysis to inform strategic decisions, synthesizing inputs from multiple stakeholders and data sources.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with project owners, business unit leaders, and functional partners to ensure alignment and forward momentum.
• Develop and maintain frameworks, templates, and tools that bring consistency and rigor to how strategic initiatives are managed and reported.
• Formalize and manage an intake process for cross-cutting issues, ensuring consistent capture, prioritization, ownership assignment, and escalation of items requiring cross-functional coordination.
• Manage and support a USPAH-wide governing body designed to identify, triage, and drive resolution of issues that impact multiple businesses, functions, or stakeholder groups.
• Stand up and operationalize new cross-business forums or routines to provide visibility into key programs, projects, changes, and emerging issues impacting teams across US businesses.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify interdependencies and establish ways of working that support ongoing connection, coordination, and collaboration across teams.
• Measure the impact of supported initiatives and resolved issues by defining meaningful success metrics and developing dashboards that demonstrate the team's value, outcomes, and progress against key priorities.
• Support the development of enterprise-level communication and narrative materials tied to strategic priorities.
• Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership, contributing perspective and recommendations on how to advance complex organizational priorities.
• This role may require occasional travel for leadership offsites, cross-functional engagements, or enterprise planning sessions.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Influence leadership

Organizational skills

Adaptability

MS Office

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/strategy/organizational development

MBA preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Teams)

Job description

Cencora seeks a Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives to drive a portfolio of high-visibility projects across USPAH. You will partner with senior leaders to define scope, milestones, and ownership, and translate complex data into clear leadership updates.

You will prepare executive materials, surface risks, and facilitate cross-functional sessions, building credible relationships with stakeholders and ensuring consistent reporting across programs.