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We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care.\nWhat you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.\nThis role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States.\nCandidates based in the Dallas-Fort 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 in-office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.\nAbout the Role:\nTheSr. Director,Segment Strategy -Supply Chain Operationsserves as a senior individual contributor within the North America Pharmaceutical Distribution Strategy function, supporting theSupply Chain Operations(SCO)segment.SCOrepresentsMcKesson's robust supply chain,distribution operations,and dedicated customer support teams,includingover 6,000 highly skilled associates.Reporting to the VP,Segment Strategy, this positionoperatesas a lead strategic partner to segment leadership.\nThe Senior Directoris responsible forowning and leading defined workstreams and strategic sub-areas within the segment, shaping insights, framing decisions, and driving forward progress in close partnership with business and functional leaders. This is a highly hands-on role that requires strong judgment in stakeholder engagement and a commitment to developing strategy collaboratively-not in isolation.\nSuccess in this role is defined by the ability to translate complex dynamics into actionable decisions, build credibility with partners, and ensure strategic work leads to practical, executable outcomes.\nWhat You'll Do:\nStrategic Initiative Leadership\nLead strategic initiatives end-to-end - from problem definition and workplan design through analysis, recommendation development, syndication, and hand-off to execution owners.\n\nStructure ambiguous, contested problems into clear hypotheses, workplans, and decision paths; insist on clear problem definition, logic, and evidence.\n\nDevelop recommendations that reflect genuine choices with explicit trade-offs - not lists of initiatives - and that are grounded in the financial architecture of the relevant market.\n\nPrepare and run productive problem-solving sessions with business partners; engage stakeholders in joint problem solving rather than delivering conclusions to them.\n\nValue Chain Economics & Financial Analysis\nServe as a knowledgeable resource on the financial architecture of the pharmaceutical value chain - how manufacturers, distributors, PBMs, payers, and pharmacies generate and protect economic value, and how those mechanisms are beingrepriced.\n\nDirect and quality-control the financial models built by theteam;ensure every significant analysisidentifiesthe assumptions that matter most and translates market shifts into quantified P&L implications.\n\nAnalyze the second-order financial and competitive consequences of legislative and regulatory developments - drug pricing reform, PBM transparency, reimbursementpolicy - within the scope of assigned initiatives.\n\nContribute to scenario analysis of vertical integration, direct channel development, and disintermediation moves by value chain participants.\n\nThought Partnership & Syndication\nAct as a credible thought partner to business leaders within the scope of assigned initiatives; challenge assumptions constructively and surface inconvenient facts early.\n\nUnderstand the organization’s culture and individual stakeholderperspectives, andconsider them in crafting recommendations that the business canactually execute.\n\nDevelop thoughtful plans to engage stakeholders through the process - from fact-finding to solution development - to build alignment as the work proceeds, not after it concludes.\n\nCommunication\nDeliver compelling written and oral communications to senior business audiences; lead with key messages, present persuasively and with conviction, and tailor materials to the audience.\n\nAsk powerful, open-ended questions; actively listen and respond to nuance and mood in senior settings.\n\nTeam Leadership & Development\nPartner with and direct teams of one to three Senior Managers and analysts per initiative; scopeworkrealistically against team capacity and deliver high-quality output without undue crunch.\n\nCoach team members in astrengths-based way; provide insightful,timelyfeedback; shape step-up opportunities that stretch colleagues.\n\nContribute to a positive, inclusive team climate and to function-building efforts including recruiting and knowledge development.\n\nExecution Support\nTranslate approved recommendations intoimplementationroadmaps with clear owners, milestones, and metrics; support transformation programs through their early execution phases.\n\nCreate feedback loops that surface early execution signals back intothe strategiclogic.\n\nBasicRequirements:\n10+ years of progressive experience in strategy, including engagement-leadership experience at a top-tier strategy consulting firm or equivalent project-leadership experience in a corporate strategy function.\n\n5+ years of experience in distributionsupply chain; strong preference for pharmaceutical and/or healthcaredistributionexperience.\n\nDemonstrated ability to build working fluency in complex value chain economics quickly.\n\nTrack recordof leading cross-functional strategic projects end-to-end that resulted in concrete decisions and measurable action - not just analysis delivered to others.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead and develop small analytical teams.\n\nExecutive presence anddemonstratedeffectivenesspresenting toand influencing senior leaders.\n\nPreferred Skills/Experience:\nProblem Framer: Structures problems soundly using core problem-solving disciplines; translates ambiguity into hypotheses, workplans, and decision paths; embraces qualitative, people, and relationship-based problem solving alongside the quantitative.\n\nValue Chain Fluency: Possessesworking knowledge of pharmaceutical value chain economics - distribution margin structures, sourcing dynamics, PBM and payer economics, and pharmacy P&Ls - and applies it as a core analytical lens, not background knowledge.\n\nRecommendation Craft: Synthesizes complete sets of implications into well-syndicated recommendations framed as genuine choices with explicit trade-offs; controls quality and process across the initiative.\n\nConstructive Challenger: Challengesstakeholderand team assumptionsconstructively;bringsnew insights;is developingthe trust-based relationships that makechallengewelcome rather thanresisted.\n\nPeople Developer: Coaches team members in astrengths-based way,solicitsfeedback, and creates the conditions for high performance and team health.\n\nCommunication: Prepares well-structured documents with minimal guidance; presents well to audiences of all sizes; fosters constructive dialogue and balances asking with telling.\n\nPhysical Requirements:\nGeneral office demands\n\nMust have the ability to travel up to20%of the time\n\nCandidate within 50 miles of Irving, TX will be required to be onsite 2 days per week.\n\nMcKesson 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.\nApplicants 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.\nIf you will require McKesson to provide immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future, you should not apply for this position.\nWe are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.\nMcKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:\nMcKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.\nMcKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.\nMcKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.\nMcKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nMcKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.\nMcKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States)  or (Canada) . 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