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 Coordinator

As the communications coordinator you will assist with development of communications materials focused on the provider customer segment including alerts for pricing, product availability and launches. You will manage the urgent communication requests process and execute our customer communications in a timely and efficient manner. You will also play a role in supporting other significant customer communication initiatives. With these projects, you’ll have the opportunity to enhance the operational effectiveness of the communications team by managing significant communications to our provider customer segment. You’ll ensure high levels of service to internal customer 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:

• Manage and execute urgent customer communication requests including product, pricing and distribution alerts and launches for both branded and generic products.  
• Provide support for communication projects and initiatives.
• Create and distribute customer communications using email marketing system

Requirements:

• 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 or the desire to learn how to use Dreamweaver and html processes to create email marketing messages.
• 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. 

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.

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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.