Senior Director, Strategic Planning (Pharmaceutical Distribution)

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This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States.

Candidates based in the DallasFort Worth (DFW) area will be hired in a hybrid capacity and are expected to work onsite at our Las Colinas office a minimum of two (2) days per week with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific inoffice days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.

About the Role:

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director Strategic Planning to join the NAPD (North America Pharmaceutical Distribution) Strategy team. Reporting to the Senior Vice President NAPD Strategy this role will lead the strategic planning management system that connects long-range direction business evolution annual priorities executive decision-making and execution across NAPD. The Senior Director will work closely with senior leaders and teams across the business to help shape strategic choices align perspectives and create a coherent view of priorities opportunities risks and progress.

This leader will serve as a trusted thought partner planning architect and integrator. They will bring structure to complex and ambiguous questions translate market and business insight into actionable plans and establish the routines tools and governance needed to advance the NAPD strategic agenda. The role will help leadership navigate key strategic decisions while ensuring alignment between long-term direction and near-term execution. The role will lead and develop a team of strategy professionals and will influence across a large highly matrixed organization without relying solely on formal authority.

This role offers the opportunity to shape how strategy is translated into aligned priorities and measurable progress across a complex consequential healthcare business. The successful candidate will combine strategic depth operational discipline and people leadership to help NAPD make better decisions focus resources and advance its most important priorities.

What Youll Do:

Strategic Planning and Integration

• Lead NAPDs annual and long-range strategic planning processes connecting long-term direction business priorities financial objectives and execution plans.
• Partner with senior leaders to frame critical strategic questions clarify choices and tradeoffs and align near-term priorities with long-term aspirations.
• Integrate plans and perspectives across NAPD portfolios and financial plans identify dependencies and gaps and elevate issues requiring executive alignment or decision.
• Establish planning frameworks standards and deliverables that improve the quality consistency and speed of strategic decision-making.

Strategic Alignment and Business Evolution

• Partner with strategy leaders and business stakeholders to ensure growth innovation and business evolution initiatives are incorporated into NAPDs strategic direction and planning processes.
• Ensure strategic initiatives and emerging opportunities are evaluated prioritized and connected to broader business objectives and resource decisions.
• Identify overlaps dependencies risks and gaps across strategic initiatives and surface issues requiring leadership attention.
• Help translate long-term strategic direction into actionable priorities plans milestones and governance processes.

Executive Decision Support and Strategic Insights

• Support executive strategy reviews planning discussions operating reviews Board materials offsites and other key leadership forums.
• Develop clear concise materials that frame decisions communicate priorities and drive alignment.
• Synthesize inputs from strategy leaders business stakeholders and functional partners into actionable insights options and recommendations.
• Help surface key decisions unresolved issues dependencies risks and trade-offs requiring leadership attention.

Strategic Management and Execution

• Design and lead planning and review cadences that connect strategy priorities execution and performance across NAPD.
• Identify key dependencies trade-offs risks and issues requiring leadership attention or decision.
• Incorporate business performance market developments and execution learnings into ongoing strategy and planning.

Team Leadership and Cross-Functional Partnership

• Lead coach and develop a high-performing team of strategy professionals; establish clear priorities and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Build trusted relationships across business functional and strategy teams to drive alignment and informed decision-making.
• Coordinate stakeholders across NAPD to connect strategic priorities planning activities and enterprise objectives.

Basic Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 13 years of professional experience and 6 years of diversified leadership planning communication organization and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).
• Bachelors degree in business finance economics healthcare or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated people-leadership experience including coaching and developing strategy planning or analytical talent.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale or business-unit strategic planning and managing multiple complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strategic thinking and problem solving: Able to structure ambiguous issues distinguish the most important drivers evaluate choices and trade-offs and develop pragmatic recommendations.
• Planning and execution: Experience translating long-range direction into annual priorities initiative portfolios milestones metrics and management routines.
• Business and financial acumen: Strong understanding of business models P&L drivers financial analysis investment decisions and value creation.
• Executive communication: Exceptional written verbal facilitation and presentation skills; able to simplify complexity and tailor messages for executive and operating audiences.
• Influence and relationship building: Proven ability to establish credibility lead without authority navigate competing perspectives and drive alignment in a matrixed organization.
• Leadership: Track record of setting direction developing talent managing capacity and creating an engaged accountable and inclusive team environment.
• Analytical rigor: Able to synthesize quantitative and qualitative information test assumptions and turn analysis into decision-relevant insight.
• Healthcare and pharmaceutical industry understanding: Knowledge of healthcare stakeholders market dynamics economic drivers and policy is strongly preferred.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Experience in pharmaceutical distribution pharmaceutical services healthcare payer provider life sciences health technology or an adjacent industry.
• Experience supporting C-suite or senior executive decision-making and preparing materials for executive leadership or board-level audiences.
• Experience with scenario planning portfolio prioritization transformation governance strategic initiatives or business-case development.

Physical Requirements:

• Candidates within a 50-mile radius of Irving TX will be hired into a Hybrid schedule requiring 2 days per week onsite (subject to more depending on business need).
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

McKesson complies with all applicable U.S. immigration laws and regulations. The Company does not provide employer support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment benefit for this role.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g. H1B O1 E3 H1B1 TN F1 OPT F1 STEM OPT F1 CPT etc.) now or in the future.

If you will require McKesson to provide immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future you should not apply for this position.

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Our Base Pay Range for this position

$182000 - $303300

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