Sr. Director, Strategic Innovation & Business Development

Sr. Director, Strategic Innovation & Business Development

Join us at McKesson, where we are at the forefront of transforming healthcare delivery. As the Sr. Director of Strategic Innovation & Business Development, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovative solutions in collaboration with our core supply chain and distribution services businesses. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence strategic innovations that improve patient outcomes and enhance our commercial offerings.

In this high-visibility role, you will collaborate with senior leaders, fostering growth and development in a dynamic environment.

McKesson Corporate Strategy & Business Development (CSBD) is seeking to add a Sr. Director, Strategic Innovation & Business Development. In this role, you will be the main point of contact for Strategic Innovation, leading new initiatives that drive early growth for the Enterprise strategy. This position has increased accountability and complexity as you contribute to establishing best practices in driving innovation within a large organization.

You will partner across CSBD and business unit teams to identify and develop new opportunities in the core domestic distribution services segments, reporting directly to the SVP of Strategic Innovation & Business Development.

• Strategic Roadmap Execution: Accelerate the strategic roadmap by bringing identified opportunities from concept through commercialization, including initial pilot execution to emerging growth, with a focus on strengthening and streamlining our core distribution services.
• Innovative Approaches: Advocate for and implement creative strategies that leverage emerging technologies, foster customer-centric solutions, and promote collaboration across teams and partners. Drive initiatives that enhance operational efficiency and deliver exceptional value to McKesson and its customers.
• Feasibility Assessment: Develop and evaluate strategic financial and operational feasibility cases to support investment decisions for new growth opportunities, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Data-Driven Insights: Leverage advanced analytics to collect, analyze, and interpret data from various sources. Generate actionable insights that guide strategic decision-making, enhance operational efficiency, and identify new growth opportunities. Present findings compellingly to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and driving a culture of informed decision-making.
• Collaboration: Partner with CSBD and business units to identify and develop new opportunities for innovation within our core distribution services businesses.
• Team Leadership: Mentor a team of individual contributors, fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment.

We seek a candidate with a strong background in healthcare distribution services, ideally with an established knowledge base and strong network across McKesson’s core distribution businesses, who can leverage their analytical and strategic expertise to identify and drive impactful initiatives. You must be wired for data, strategy, innovation, and collaboration. You respect that PowerPoint is a critical communication tool and are a strong engager of stakeholders, leadership, and executives.

And you want to do it all with a positive attitude on a team that thrives on new ideas and driving innovation.

• Innovator:
  Demonstrates an intrapreneurial spirit—learns quickly, builds minimal viable products to experiment and fail fast, then pivot and try again.
• Analytical:
  Extracts, formats, and presents data in insightful and compelling ways.
• Action-oriented:
  Operationalizes insights by clearly demonstrating impact.
• Builder:
  Seeks tools, systems, and resources to advance the team’s mission.
• Creative:
  Thinks outside the box to solve problems and uncover opportunities.
• Customer-forward:
  Leads teams to execute work with an intimate understanding of customers.
• Financially astute:
  Strong understanding of financial drivers and applies it to work.
• Influencer:
  Can successfully influence up, down, and across a matrixed organization.
• Te…