Managing Chief Counsel - Core Ventures and the Network

McKesson; Irving (TX); Remote; USD 192,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Managing Chief Counsel for Core Ventures and the US Oncology Network Regulatory to serve as the principal legal advisor across core ventures, regulatory compliance, and data governance. The role spans transactions, operations, and governance in a broad healthcare regulatory landscape.

Ideal candidates have a JD with 12+ years of relevant experience, strong leadership, and a track record in complex healthcare agreements.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school, plus typically 12 or more years of relevant legal experience.
• Substantial healthcare regulatory experience, including fraud and abuse laws, Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA, and state corporate practice of medicine and licensure frameworks.
• Experience leading or developing a legal team, including attorneys and legal support professionals.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and healthcare services agreements.
• Mature professional judgment in navigating legal and business considerations, including the ability to assess risk, exercise discretion, and elevate thoughtfully.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risk and recommended paths forward in clear, business-focused terms to executives and clinicians.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal oversight for Core Ventures operating model, including MSAs, intercompany arrangements, and amendments.
• Advise executives and prepare materials for board-level initiatives and obligations.
• Support post-close structuring and vendor/partner contracts.
• Negotiate and execute complex commercial and healthcare services agreements.
• Design contracting governance, intake, review, approval, and execution processes.
• Provide regulatory guidance across AKS, Stark, CMS requirements, HIPAA, and state regulations affecting community oncology.

Skills

Communication skills

Independent work

Strategic thinking

Legal judgment

Education

Juris Doctor

Job description

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.

Managing Chief Counsel — Core Ventures and US Oncology Network Regulatory

Location: Dallas or The Woodlands, TX; Columbus, OH; Atlanta, GA; Fort Myers, FL

Onsite/Remote/Hybrid: REMOTE

Position Summary

McKesson's General Counsel Organization (GCO) is seeking a Managing Chief Counsel to serve as the principal legal advisor and strategic partner to Core Ventures, the management services organization supporting Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, and provide regulatory support for The US Oncology Network (Network). This is a broad generalist role that spans transactions, operations, data governance, and healthcare regulation across one of the largest community oncology platforms in the United States. The role provides end-to-end legal leadership across the Core Ventures operating model: management services agreements and intercompany arrangements, practice integration and post-close structuring, enterprise contracting, and data governance. On the Network side, the role provides healthcare regulatory guidance, including AKS, Stark, fraud and abuse analysis, CMS and state regulatory requirements, HIPAA and PHI governance, privacy review, and support for Network compliance programs. We are looking for a lawyer who does more than answer the question in front of them. Every company is at a different point in its use of AI for process improvement, and what matters here is the ability to think differently about how legal work gets delivered and to bring that mindset into the team. The successful candidate will pair excellent legal judgment with a demonstrated record of modernizing playbooks, intake, and workflows so that legal support scales with the business.

Key Responsibilities

Core Ventures

• Legal oversight of the Core Ventures operating model, including management services agreements, intercompany arrangements, and amendments.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Core Ventures executive leadership, preparing and presenting executive and board-level materials supporting major initiatives and significant obligations.
• Support practice integration and post-close structuring, including asset transfers, physician alignment, and ownership frameworks.
• Lead the negotiation and execution of complex commercial agreements, including vendor and supplier contracts, strategic partnerships and affiliations, and data services, pharmacy, and technology arrangements.
• Design and implement contracting governance frameworks covering intake, review, approval, and execution.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Core Ventures executive leadership, preparing and presenting executive and board-level materials supporting major initiatives and significant obligations.

Network Regulatory and Compliance Partnership

• Advise on healthcare regulatory frameworks including anti-kickback, fraud and abuse laws, CMS requirements, and state regulations affecting community oncology practices.
• Partner with business unit and enterprise compliance to advance compliance programs and initiatives.
• Advise on regulatory questions arising from patient communications and care model programs, including social determinants of health initiatives under the Enhancing Oncology Model.

Team Leadership

• Supervise, mentor, and develop attorneys and legal specialists supporting CV and allocate work so that matters are handled at the right level.
• Drive continuous improvement in intake, triage, and workflow so that legal support scales with CV's growth.

Legal Operations and Transformative Thinking

• Partner cross-functionally with privacy, compliance, security, finance, procurement, IT, and operations to support timely, informed decision-making and streamlined execution.
• Lead continuous improvement across legal operations, including utilizing AI-enabled and other technology-enabled tools, intake and triage contracting models, standardized templates and playbooks, and workflow redesign, so that legal support scales without a proportional increase in headcount.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

Matters advance efficiently and consistently, with sound judgment and a digital-first, continuous-improvement mindset, and with novel, high-risk, or precedent-setting issues surfaced proactively to the Managing Principal Counsel and Assistant General Counsel. Business partners across Core Ventures and USON experience Legal as customer-first and outcomes-oriented: guidance is practical, risk is clearly framed, and collaboration reduces friction rather than adding it. Regulatory and compliance risk is identified early and managed to resolution, and contracting processes, templates, playbooks, and workflows are modernized and scaled, with measurable improvement in cycle time, quality, consistency, and stakeholder experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school, plus typically 12 or more years of relevant legal experience; active membership in good standing of at least one state bar.
• Substantial healthcare regulatory experience, including fraud and abuse laws, Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA, and state corporate practice of medicine and licensure frameworks.
• Experience leading or developing a legal team, including attorneys and legal support professionals.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and healthcare services agreements.
• Mature professional judgment in navigating legal and business considerations, including the ability to assess risk, exercise discretion, and elevate thoughtfully.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risk and recommended paths forward in clear, business-focused terms to executives and clinicians.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting physician practices, management services organizations, or other regulated healthcare services businesses.
• Experience advising on value-based care and CMS innovation models, including the Enhancing Oncology Model or similar programs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or contribute to process improvement initiatives, such as playbooks, templates, workflow redesign, contract lifecycle management, or other legal technology solutions.
• Prior in-house experience in a large, matrixed organization.

Education and Experience

• Juris Doctor plus typically 12 or more years of relevant legal experience, including significant in-house or healthcare regulatory practice.
• People leadership experience preferred; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered.

Must be authorized to work in the US. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

We 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. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

Our Base Pay Range for this position $192,200 - $320,300

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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.