Empowering patients starts with you. It starts with the chain of events you initiate when you work with McKesson Specialty Care Solutions - a chain that extends across the country and results in millions of people getting more from their healthcare.

Our specialty pharmaceutical programs offer a significant impact for our customers and their businesses. The Distribution Services segment of our company is dedicated to the wholesale distribution of specialty pharmaceuticals - focusing on oncology and other specialty products. Our Specialty Patient Services group provides compliance and adherence programs, as well as reimbursement hotlines, patient assistance and support programs and the managed distribution of pharmaceutical products. Finally, our Specialty Solution Center is the largest single-site call center in healthcare, offering a centralized approach to optimize manufacturer product reimbursement and access. At McKesson Specialty Care Solutions, our team affects the full continuum of healthcare - ultimately helping to improve the patient experience at the individual level. 

 Communications Specialist

As the communications specialist, you will assist with development of communications materials focused on customer audiences including product launches, e-newsletters, promotions, email marketing campaigns, graphic design projects and urgent communications. You will also play a role in supporting our customer-facing events. With these projects, you’ll have the opportunity to enhance the operational effectiveness of the marketing and communications teams by managing the communications to our various customer segments. You’ll ensure high levels of service to internal customers of the communications team within the organization as well as external customers via timely communications and strong execution of marketing and communications initiatives.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Assist with communications planning and execution for ongoing campaigns and projects for our various customer segments including email marketing, web marketing efforts, printed collateral development, product launch plans, and presentations.
• Provide support for communication strategy at industry events and customer conferences.
• Manage legal review of customer communications materials.
• Support design and production projects with creative resources.
• Assist with executing urgent communication requests.

Requirements:

• 1-3 years of marketing communications, PR, advertising, or business writing experience (agency and/or in-house including internships for recent grads).
• 4-year degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Journalism, English or related field.
• Excellent communications skills, written and verbal; excellent ability to create communications materials for both online and offline environments.
• Extremely polished writing skills.
• Ability to multi-task and manage changing priorities in a fast-paced marketing environment, constantly striving for excellence.
• Ability to work with a variety of internal and external customers, varying in seniority and work experiences.
• Experience working with executives, other marketing professionals, designers, writers, and production vendors.
• Ability to work individually or with a team to drive communications campaigns from concept through completion including budget and vendor management.
• Development and maintenance of internal operational procedures, processes, and measurement tools that support external communications programs.
• Experience with Dreamweaver, html and Adobe design software suite a plus. 

McKesson offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

It starts with you. That's a simple sentence but it says a lot. It reminds each one of us that what we do matters. Every single McKesson employee contributes to our mission - whatever your title, whatever your role, you act as a catalyst in a chain of events that helps millions of people all over the globe. By connecting and improving the business of healthcare, we're helping to ensure that millions of patients get the treatment they need. And by choosing a career with McKesson, you'll join a team of passionate people working together to improve lives and advance healthcare.

Apply online at http://mckessonjobs.com

At McKesson, we believe we can empower healthcare. And it all starts with you.

As an equal opportunity employer, McKesson Corporation unites the talents and contributions of all to advance the power of healthcare. Learn more about our opportunities at www.mckesson.com/careers.