Director, Corporate Strategy
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We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details from About the Role paragraph, What You'll Do bullet points (converted to list), Basic Requirements list, Preferred Skills/Experience list, Benefits info (competitive compensation package, annual bonus, long-term incentive, link to benefits), Schedule info (location flexibility, hybrid, DFW onsite 2 days per week, specific in-office days may be designated based on team needs). Also mention that role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across US; candidates based in DFW area will be hired hybrid and expected to work onsite at Las Colinas office a minimum of two days per week, remaining days remote; specific in-office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities. Also Physical Requirements: General office demands, ability to travel up to 20% of the time. Candidates that reside within 50 miles of Irving, TX will be required to be onsite 2 days per week. That's schedule info as well.
We need to include Physical Requirements? Possibly as part of Requirements or separate? Not a heading; we can include under Requirements as a bullet or paragraph. The rule: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can include physical requirements as list items under Requirements.
We must not include boilerplate like immigration, EEO, scam warning, equal opportunity, etc.
We must not include application instructions (like "click here", "please contact us").
We must not include duplicated lines.
We need to preserve all substantive info: The description about McKesson, culture, etc. That's part of About the role? Actually the initial paragraph about McKesson is generic company description; could be part of About the role? Might be considered introductory. We can include it in About the role section as prose.
We need to ensure we don't repeat the job title as heading. The job title is "Director, Strategy – U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution". Not to be used as heading.
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About the role
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. This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States. Candidates 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.
Then About the Role paragraph: Actually we already included some of that. The "About the Role:" section after that: "The Director, Strategy – U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution serves as a trusted individual contributor within the North America Pharmaceutical Distribution Strategy function..." We'll include that as part of About the role maybe after the intro. Could combine.
Better: About the role section includes both company overview and role description.
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About the role
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. This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States. Candidates 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.
The Director, Strategy – U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution serves as a trusted individual contributor within the North America Pharmaceutical Distribution Strategy function. U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution, or USPD, is the backbone of McKesson’s pharmaceutical operations, with over 9,000 employees and a mission to ensure our customers and patients get what they need, when they need it. Reporting to the VP, Segment Strategy, this position operates as a key strategic partner to segment leadership in a targeted USPD business segment: Strategic, Community & Specialized Pharmacy (SCS), McKesson Health Systems (MHS), Commercial Strategy & Innovation (CSI), or Supply Chain Operations (SCO). The Director is responsible for leading and supporting 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 role requires sound strategic and financial analysis, strong communication and stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to developing strategy collaboratively—not in isolation. Success 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.
Now Responsibilities: Use Responsibilities
then with each bullet from "What You'll Do:" sections.
We need to capture all bullet points:
Strategic Analysis & Insight:
- Own end-to-end analytical workstreams within larger strategic initiatives — from problem structuring and hypothesis development through analysis and synthesis of findings — with guidance from initiative leads on framing and prioritization.
- Build rigorous fact bases on market structure, competitor strategies and economics, customer segments, and channel dynamics across the pharmaceutical distribution value chain.
- Synthesize complex quantitative and qualitative information into clear, well-structured storylines; consistently deliver the “so what,” not just the analysis.
- Identify implications of your own workstream for the overall initiative, and flag issues and opportunities to initiative leadership proactively.
Value Chain & Financial Analysis:
- Build and maintain financial models that translate market shifts — reimbursement changes, sourcing dynamics, customer mix evolution, competitive moves — into quantified P&L implications for the business, with review from senior team members.
- Develop working knowledge of how each participant in the pharmaceutical value chain — manufacturers, distributors, PBMs, payers, and pharmacies — earns, protects, and seeks to expand its economic position.
- Track and analyze legislative, regulatory, and policy developments — including drug pricing reform, PBM transparency requirements, and reimbursement policy changes — and support the assessment of their financial and competitive implications.
- Support scenario and sensitivity analysis: pressure-test the assumptions that matter most and help bound the range of plausible outcomes.
Problem Solving & Collaboration:
- Participate actively in team problem solving; step up to lead portions of problem-solving sessions with the team and with business partners.
- Challenge assumptions constructively and take intellectual risks to generate new ideas; bring curiosity about how the distribution business actually works economically.
- Manage your own time and workplan effectively; know how and when to seek input; control the quality of your own work product.
Communication & Stakeholder Support:
- Prepare well-written, logical, concise documents and executive materials with minimal guidance; lead with key messages.
- Present analysis and recommendations with confidence to initiative teams and, with preparation, to senior business audiences.
- Build collaborative working relationships with business, finance, sourcing, commercial, and functional partners; project credibility and reliability.
Team & Function Contribution:
- Coach analysts and newer team members on analytical craft, modeling standards, and story-lining; provide constructive upward feedback.
- Contribute to strategy function-building efforts — recruiting, knowledge capture, analytical tooling, and ways of working.
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Now Requirements:
Requirements
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Basic Requirements:
- 7+ years of progressive experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, private equity, or comparable analytically intensive roles.
- Exposure to healthcare, pharmaceutical services, or distribution businesses strongly preferred; genuine interest in the economics of the pharmaceutical value chain is essential.
- Demonstrated advanced financial modeling capability — building models from a blank sheet that connect market dynamics to P&L outcomes.
- Track record of structuring ambiguous problems, executing rigorous analysis, and producing executive-ready synthesis and deliverables.
- Experience working effectively in cross-functional teams and managing multiple deliverables under time pressure.
- Physical Requirements: General office demands.
- Must have the ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
- Candidates that reside within 50 miles of Irving, TX will be required to be onsite 2 days per week.
We could also include location flexibility etc but that's in About.
Now Preferred Skills/Experience: Skills
list.
- Structured Problem Solver: Formulates clear hypotheses and structures workstreams well with light guidance; handles complex analyses with little oversight and moves efficiently from data to insight.
- Financial Modeling & P&L Literacy: Builds financial models as strategic tools — not to forecast with false precision but to identify the assumptions that matter and quantify the implications of strategic choices.
- Synthesis & Storylining: Distills complex information into clear, logical storylines; writes and charts at near executive-ready quality; consistently answers “so what.”
- Value Chain Curiosity: Demonstrates genuine intellectual curiosity about how distribution, sourcing, pharmacy, PBM, and payer economics actually work — and is building working fluency in them.
- Collaborative Teammate: Is a reliable, helpful, and proactive teammate; builds trust with partners across the business;
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details from About the Role paragraph, What You'll Do bullet points (converted to list), Basic Requirements list, Preferred Skills/Experience list, Benefits info (competitive compensation package, annual bonus, long-term incentive, link to benefits), Schedule info (location flexibility, hybrid, DFW onsite 2 days per week, specific in-office days may be designated based on team needs). Also mention that role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across US; candidates based in DFW area will be hired hybrid and expected to work onsite at Las Colinas office a minimum of two days per week, remaining days remote; specific in-office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities. Also Physical Requirements: General office demands, ability to travel up to 20% of the time. Candidates that reside within 50 miles of Irving, TX will be required to be onsite 2 days per week. That's schedule info as well. We need to include Physical Requirements? Possibly as part of Requirements or separate? Not a heading; we can include under Requirements as a bullet or paragraph. The rule: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can include physical requirements as list items under Requirements.
We must not include boilerplate like immigration, EEO, scam warning, equal opportunity, etc.
We must not include application instructions (like "click here", "please contact us").
We must not include duplicated lines.
We need to preserve all substantive info: The description about McKesson, culture, etc. That's part of About the role? Actually the initial paragraph about McKesson is generic company description; could be part of About the role? Might be considered introductory. We can include it in About the role section as prose.
We need to ensure we don't repeat the job title as heading. The job title is "Director, Strategy – U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution". Not to be used as heading.
Now craft HTML.
Structure:
About the role
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. This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States. Candidates 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.
Then About the Role paragraph: Actually we already included some of that. The "About the Role:" section after that: "The Director, Strategy – U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution serves as a trusted individual contributor within the North America Pharmaceutical Distribution Strategy function..." We'll include that as part of About the role maybe after the intro. Could combine. Better: About the role section includes both company overview and role description. Let's craft:About the role
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. This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States. Candidates 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.
The Director, Strategy – U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution serves as a trusted individual contributor within the North America Pharmaceutical Distribution Strategy function. U.S. Pharmaceutical Distribution, or USPD, is the backbone of McKesson’s pharmaceutical operations, with over 9,000 employees and a mission to ensure our customers and patients get what they need, when they need it. Reporting to the VP, Segment Strategy, this position operates as a key strategic partner to segment leadership in a targeted USPD business segment: Strategic, Community & Specialized Pharmacy (SCS), McKesson Health Systems (MHS), Commercial Strategy & Innovation (CSI), or Supply Chain Operations (SCO). The Director is responsible for leading and supporting 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 role requires sound strategic and financial analysis, strong communication and stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to developing strategy collaboratively—not in isolation. Success 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.
Now Responsibilities: UseResponsibilities
then- with each bullet from "What You'll Do:" sections.
We need to capture all bullet points:
Strategic Analysis & Insight:
- Own end-to-end analytical workstreams within larger strategic initiatives — from problem structuring and hypothesis development through analysis and synthesis of findings — with guidance from initiative leads on framing and prioritization.
- Build rigorous fact bases on market structure, competitor strategies and economics, customer segments, and channel dynamics across the pharmaceutical distribution value chain.
- Synthesize complex quantitative and qualitative information into clear, well-structured storylines; consistently deliver the “so what,” not just the analysis.
- Identify implications of your own workstream for the overall initiative, and flag issues and opportunities to initiative leadership proactively.
Value Chain & Financial Analysis:
- Build and maintain financial models that translate market shifts — reimbursement changes, sourcing dynamics, customer mix evolution, competitive moves — into quantified P&L implications for the business, with review from senior team members.
- Develop working knowledge of how each participant in the pharmaceutical value chain — manufacturers, distributors, PBMs, payers, and pharmacies — earns, protects, and seeks to expand its economic position.
- Track and analyze legislative, regulatory, and policy developments — including drug pricing reform, PBM transparency requirements, and reimbursement policy changes — and support the assessment of their financial and competitive implications.
- Support scenario and sensitivity analysis: pressure-test the assumptions that matter most and help bound the range of plausible outcomes.
Problem Solving & Collaboration:
- Participate actively in team problem solving; step up to lead portions of problem-solving sessions with the team and with business partners.
- Challenge assumptions constructively and take intellectual risks to generate new ideas; bring curiosity about how the distribution business actually works economically.
- Manage your own time and workplan effectively; know how and when to seek input; control the quality of your own work product.
Communication & Stakeholder Support:
- Prepare well-written, logical, concise documents and executive materials with minimal guidance; lead with key messages.
- Present analysis and recommendations with confidence to initiative teams and, with preparation, to senior business audiences.
- Build collaborative working relationships with business, finance, sourcing, commercial, and functional partners; project credibility and reliability.
Team & Function Contribution:
- Coach analysts and newer team members on analytical craft, modeling standards, and story-lining; provide constructive upward feedback.
- Contribute to strategy function-building efforts — recruiting, knowledge capture, analytical tooling, and ways of working.
We'll put each as
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Now Requirements:
Requirements
(or Basic Requirements). Use list. Basic Requirements: - 7+ years of progressive experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, private equity, or comparable analytically intensive roles. - Exposure to healthcare, pharmaceutical services, or distribution businesses strongly preferred; genuine interest in the economics of the pharmaceutical value chain is essential. - Demonstrated advanced financial modeling capability — building models from a blank sheet that connect market dynamics to P&L outcomes. - Track record of structuring ambiguous problems, executing rigorous analysis, and producing executive-ready synthesis and deliverables. - Experience working effectively in cross-functional teams and managing multiple deliverables under time pressure. - Physical Requirements: General office demands. - Must have the ability to travel up to 20% of the time. - Candidates that reside within 50 miles of Irving, TX will be required to be onsite 2 days per week. We could also include location flexibility etc but that's in About. Now Preferred Skills/Experience:Skills
list. - Structured Problem Solver: Formulates clear hypotheses and structures workstreams well with light guidance; handles complex analyses with little oversight and moves efficiently from data to insight. - Financial Modeling & P&L Literacy: Builds financial models as strategic tools — not to forecast with false precision but to identify the assumptions that matter and quantify the implications of strategic choices. - Synthesis & Storylining: Distills complex information into clear, logical storylines; writes and charts at near executive-ready quality; consistently answers “so what.” - Value Chain Curiosity: Demonstrates genuine intellectual curiosity about how distribution, sourcing, pharmacy, PBM, and payer economics actually work — and is building working fluency in them. - Collaborative Teammate: Is a reliable, helpful, and proactive teammate; builds trust with partners across the business;
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