Sr. Director, General Counsel Organization (GCO) Strategic Planning & Operations

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.

Title: Sr. Director, General Counsel Organization (GCO) Strategic Planning & Operations

Location: Atlanta, GA; Columbus, OH; Dallas, TX

Remote / Hybrid / Onsite: HYBRID position

Role Overview

The General Counsel Organization (GCO) at McKesson is dedicated to advancing our enterprise strategy, navigating complexity, and shaping healthcare with integrity, creativity, and agility. We strive to amplify a culture of compliance, champion our company brand, and invest in our team as we reimagine how we work in the age of AI. The GCO includes Law, Compliance, Corporate Affairs, Enterprise Quality, Global Safety and Security and GCO Strategy, Innovations and Operations (SIO), and is comprised of approximately 600+ team members across the United States, Canada, and Europe.

The Senior Director, Strategic Planning and & Operations will play a critical leadership role within the SIO organization by translating strategy into execution and advancing transformation across the GCO. Reporting to the VP, Strategy, Innovation and Operations, this leader will lead a team responsible of professionals that run department operations, vendor and outside counsel management, budget stewardship, and the transformation planning. The leader will jointly steward the GCO elements of AIM28, McKesson’s multi-year AI-enabled transformation strategy, with other members of the SIO leadership team. This includes partnering across GCO with leaders to modernize operations, improve employee experience, determine their strategy, track initiative-level business value, and provide transparent updates that support sustained impact and adoption across Law, Compliance, Corporate Affairs, Enterprise Quality, Global Safety and Security, and SIO. This leader also will lead the Outside Counsel transformation.

The successful candidate brings a forward-looking strategy and operations mindset, with demonstrated experience leading transformation offices, modernizing service delivery models and managing global teams.

They also have hands on experience with change management and leveraging Ai to scale operations. The leader knows how to make clear tradeoffs and recommendations amid ambiguity, grounded in data, technology, and sound judgment. They move with urgency on the work that matters most by simplifying governance, accelerating decision cycles, and removing barriers to adoption. They build inclusive, high-performing teams and develop future-ready talent while leading with authenticity and transparency through complex change.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Transformation

• Partner with GCO leaders to operate the transformation office, advancing enterprise priorities through clear governance, disciplined execution, and measurable outcomes.
• Translate strategic intent into clear, actionable roadmaps, requirements with defined outcomes, milestones, and success measures and operate as an accountability partner to ensure execution.
• Serve as a thought partner to executive leadership, providing perspective on priorities, sequencing, tradeoffs, and implications across a highly matrixed organization.
• Steward the AIM28 transformation project portfolio across the GCO and track selected end end-to-end transformation initiatives across the legal function, ensuring they are sequenced, resourced, governed, and adopted in alignment with GCO priorities.
• Anticipate organizational, cultural, and capability impacts of change and proactively address barriers to adoption.

Outside Counsel Transformation & Department Operations

• Refresh the way the GCO governs, engages and the way we capture value from our law firm partnerships, including panel management, performance expectations, service quality, cost discipline, and strategic alignment.
• Develop a proactive, collaborative partnership with the law firms and Legal leaders, and serve as an accountability partner for panel guidelines, engagement practices, and value expectations.

• Balance innovation and risk by applying sound judgment and governance while encouraging experimentation that delivers measurable value.

• Embed digital solutions into day-to-day workflows to ensure sustained adoption, measurable business impact, and improved user experience.

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Build, lead, and develop high-performing, inclusive teams across department operations, outside counsel transformation, strategic planning, and transformation execution.
• Establish clear accountability, performance expectations, and development pathways that prepare talent for future leadership demands.

• Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement while leading through complexity and change with transparency and trust.

Critical Skills & Capabilities

• Proven ability to drive cross-functional strategy and transformation initiatives
• Experienced in being an accountability partner for budgets and managing budget cycles, financial governance, value tracking, or and owning a P&L accountability.
• Strong digital fluency, including experience leveraging analytics and Ai to drive business outcomes.
• Experienced in negotiating with vendors and redesigning end to end processes
• Exceptional systems thinking, problem solving‑, and strategic planning skills.
• Executive-level communication skills, with the ability to influence, align, and tell compelling stories with data.

• Deep experience operating in highly matrixed, complex organizations.
• High level of discretion and judgment in handling sensitive and confidential matters.

Qualifications

Experience

• 13+ years of progressive experience in strategy, transformation, operations, budget management, consulting, analytics, or digital enablement roles.

• Demonstrated success leading enterprise or function-wide transformation offices, programs, or portfolios from strategy through execution and adoption

• Experience in legal operations, compliance, healthcare, or other regulated environments strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with legal operations frameworks (e.g., CLOC 12) is a plus.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• MBA or MTech equivalent advanced degree strongly preferred.

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

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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.