Manager, Political Programs & Office Operations

Manager, Political Programs & Office Operations

Join Cencora's U.S. Public Policy & Advocacy team and help shape the company's political engagement strategy. This Washington, D.C.

-based role oversees the Cencora PAC, grassroots advocacy initiatives, political engagement programs, and compliance activities while building relationships that advance Cencora's policy priorities, as well as the operational efficiency of office operations.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, detail-oriented professional who thrives at the intersection of public policy, political engagement, communications, and operations.

Responsibilities include leading and managing Cencora's Political Action Committee (Cencora PAC), overseeing day-to-day operations, budget, compliance, and growth of the Cencora PAC, managing office administration, office operations, lobbying compliance reports, and political giving compliance reports, preparing PAC presentations and communications, managing and preparing documents and briefings for the Cencora PAC Board and PAC Board meetings, executing employee fundraising campaigns, developing and distributing PAC communications, establishing and maintaining a network of relationships with campaign fundraisers and industry colleagues, managing FEC compliance, ensuring adherence to FEC regulations and state and federal campaign finance laws, managing lobbying compliance for federal and state entities, administering political engagement governance activities, evaluating legislative and regulatory developments, developing executive briefings, talking points, and internal updates, executing government and stakeholder engagement activities, developing grassroots and grasstops communication materials, maintaining the PAC database and PAC recognition awards distribution list, planning and executing annual events for supporters of the Cencora PAC, preparing the PAC annual report and newsletters, preparing the annual political engagement statement, coordinating with fundraisers to plan and execute PAC events in Washington, D.C., enhancing existing PAC resources and creating new materials, including website updates, communications assets, videos, and related resources, and performing other duties as assigned.

Education and work experience include a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Journalism, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience required, 4+ years of experience in government affairs, public policy, advocacy (state and/or federal), legislative or regulatory analysis, stakeholder management, or a related field required, experience managing a federal PAC, working knowledge of FEC rules, thorough understanding of the U.S. government, political processes, and legislative procedures, thorough understanding of U.S. federal and state campaign finance laws, experience interacting with and presenting to executives and senior leadership, experience developing and implementing processes that improve efficiency and collaboration, experience managing a corporate PAC preferred but not required.

Skills and knowledge include strong project, program, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to handle competing priorities and multiple initiatives simultaneously, excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present information effectively to diverse audiences, strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to assess policy, legislative, and regulatory developments and synthesize key implications, exceptional organizational skills with strong attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment, strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships, collaborate across internal and external stakeholders, and resolve issues efficiently, ability to work independently, take initiative, exercise sound judgment, and represent the organization professionally and discreetly, experience managing budgets and financial resources, experience leading and managing people, programs, and cross-functional initiatives, knowledge of common business productivity and presentation tools, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, email, and design/layout software, ability to implement and maintain processes that support compliance, governance, reporting, and audit-ready documentation, and ability to travel as needed.