Strategic Planning Sr. Director — Pharma Distribution (Hybrid)

McKesson; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director, Strategic Planning to join the NAPD Strategy team in Irving, TX. The role leads the strategic planning management system, partnering with senior leaders to shape priorities, align execution, and drive measurable progress across a large, matrixed organization.

Hybrid work is available; candidates in the DFW area will be onsite at Las Colinas several days per week with remaining days remote.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, healthcare, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including coaching and developing strategy, planning, or analytical talent.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale or business-unit strategic planning and managing multiple complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strategic thinking and problem solving: Able to structure ambiguous issues, distinguish the most important drivers, evaluate choices and trade-offs, and develop pragmatic recommendations.
• Planning and execution: Experience translating long-range direction into annual priorities, initiative portfolios, milestones, metrics, and management routines.
• Business and financial acumen: Strong understanding of business models, P&L drivers, financial analysis, investment decisions, and value creation.
• Executive communication: Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills; able to simplify complexity and tailor messages for executive and operating audiences.
• Influence and relationship building: Proven ability to establish credibility, lead without authority, navigate competing perspectives, and drive alignment in a matrixed organization.
• Leadership: Track record of setting direction, developing talent, managing capacity, and creating an engaged, accountable, and inclusive team environment.
• Analytical rigor: Able to synthesize quantitative and qualitative information, test assumptions, and turn analysis into decision-relevant insight.
• Healthcare and pharmaceutical industry understanding: Knowledge of healthcare stakeholders, market dynamics, economic drivers, and policy is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead NAPD's annual and long-range strategic planning processes, connecting long-term direction, business priorities, financial objectives, and execution plans.
• Partner with senior leaders to frame critical strategic questions, clarify choices and tradeoffs, and align near-term priorities with long-term aspirations.
• Integrate plans and perspectives across NAPD portfolios and financial plans, identify dependencies and gaps, and elevate issues requiring executive alignment or decision.
• Establish planning frameworks, standards, and deliverables that improve the quality, consistency, and speed of strategic decision-making.
• Strategic Alignment and Business Evolution Partner with strategy leaders and business stakeholders to ensure growth, innovation, and business evolution initiatives are incorporated into NAPD's strategic direction and planning processes.
• Ensure strategic initiatives and emerging opportunities are evaluated, prioritized, and connected to broader business objectives and resource decisions.
• Identify overlaps, dependencies, risks, and gaps across strategic initiatives and surface issues requiring leadership attention.
• Help translate long-term strategic direction into actionable priorities, plans, milestones, and governance processes.
• Executive Decision Support and Strategic Insights Support executive strategy reviews, planning discussions, operating reviews, Board materials, offsites, and other key leadership forums.
• Develop clear, concise materials that frame decisions, communicate priorities, and drive alignment.
• Synthesize inputs from strategy leaders, business stakeholders, and functional partners into actionable insights, options, and recommendations.
• Help surface key decisions, unresolved issues, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs requiring leadership attention.
• Strategic Management and Execution Design and lead planning and review cadences that connect strategy, priorities, execution, and performance across NAPD.
• Identify key dependencies, trade-offs, risks, and issues requiring leadership attention or decision.
• Incorporate business performance, market developments, and execution learnings into ongoing strategy and planning.
• Team Leadership and Cross-Functional Partnership Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of strategy professionals; establish clear priorities and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Build trusted relationships across business, functional, and strategy teams to drive alignment and informed decision-making.
• Coordinate stakeholders across NAPD to connect strategic priorities, planning activities, and enterprise objectives.

Skills

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, healthcare, or related field

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director, Strategic Planning to join the NAPD Strategy team in Irving, TX. The role leads the strategic planning management system, partnering with senior leaders to shape priorities, align execution, and drive measurable progress across a large, matrixed organization.

Hybrid work is available; candidates in the DFW area will be onsite at Las Colinas several days per week with remaining days remote.