Sr. Director, Strategic Innovation & Business Development

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. 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.

What 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.

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 within our biopharma services and oncology care delivery sectors. 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 biopharma and oncology landscapes, reporting directly to the VP of Strategic Innovation & Business Development.

Position Description 

• 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 biopharma services and oncology care delivery
• 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 relevant to biopharma services and oncology care delivery. 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 the biopharma services and oncology sectors.
• Team Leadership: Mentor a team of individual contributors, fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment.

The winning candidate will be:

We seek a candidate with a strong background in biopharma strategy, ideally with experience in oncology care delivery, who can leverage their analytical and strategic expertise to 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 (MVPs) to experiment and fail fast, then pivot and try again.
• Analytical: Extracts, formats, and presents data in insightful and compelling ways, particularly within biopharma and oncology contexts.
• 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 intima