Director, Enterprise Specialty Pharmacy Programs

Job Summary:

The Director, Pharmacy Portfolio & Roadmap Strategy is responsible for shaping, governing, and driving the strategic portfolio of initiatives across a Pharmacy function. The role partners closely with senior pharmacy and enterprise leaders to translate strategy into executable plans, ensure disciplined portfolio management, and enable cross functional coordination to deliver divisional outcomes.

This leader ensures alignment of enterprise pharmacy priorities, optimizes resource allocation, and steers multi year roadmaps across all teams within the function.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the development, prioritization, and ongoing governance of the Pharmacy portfolio to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Provide senior leadership with clear visibility into portfolio performance, risks, interdependencies, and resource requirements to support informed decision making.
• Establish and maintain portfolio standards, frameworks, and processes that promote consistency, transparency, and operational excellence across the division.
• Build and manage multi year strategic roadmaps that integrate pharmacy strategy, operational priorities, compliance mandates, and innovation opportunities.
• Ensure roadmaps balance near term deliverables with long range transformation initiatives.
• Partner with functional leaders to translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives with defined timelines and measurable outcomes.
• Serve as the integrator across pharmacy functions to ensure cohesive planning and execution.
• Collaborate with enterprise strategy, finance, technology, and operations teams to structure initiatives that are feasible, funded, and appropriately resourced.
• Facilitate communication and alignment across all stakeholder groups to maintain shared understanding of priorities, progress, and interdependencies.
• Develop and oversee portfolio performance dashboards, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms that drive transparency and accountability.
• Provide executive leadership with actionable insights on progress, risks, dependencies, and resource utilization.
• Continuously refine portfolio management practices to enhance execution discipline and delivery effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and optimize portfolio delivery processes to improve quality and speed of execution.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to develop, manage, and monitor budget allocations for portfolio initiatives, ensuring resources align with strategic priorities.
• Provide visibility into financial impacts, cost drivers, and return on investment to support decision making.
• Ensure initiatives are scoped and funded appropriately, and proactively identify financial risks or resource gaps.
• Drive disciplined financial management practices across the portfolio, improving predictability and accountability.
• Hires, leads, manages, coaches, develops and evaluates direct and indirect reports, if applicable

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens ( has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and at least 6 years of experience in Portfolio / Program / Project Management OR High School/GED and at least 9 years of experience in Portfolio / Program / Project Management
• 2 years’ experience in agile portfolio management; leading and managing large-scale programs.
• Experience developing strategic initiatives that align with business goals and budget.
• Experience in the identification, assessment and contingency planning for risk factors
• Experience with MS Office Suite.
• At least 2 years of experience working with stakeholders at the most senior levels of an organization.
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
• At least 3 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree.
• At least 2 years of experience as a business/process leader or as a leader in a functional role.
• Experience managing the launch of new products and services, large-scale application development, systems integration, system enhancements, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering
• Experience negotiating with outside vendors, including negotiating contracts, prices, resolving service issues and reconciling differences.
• Certification in Project Management (PMP) as granted by PMI.
• Experience implementing business process, protocols and best practices.
• Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at various levels of the organization, such as peers, internal/external stakeholders, business partners, senior level managers, executives.
• Experience influencing stakeholders at all levels of an organization.

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Salary Range: $136000 - $231300 / Salaried