Director of Strategic Intelligence at McKesson in Fort Worth, TX

Current Need

McKesson’s Corporate Strategy and Business Development (CSBD) team is seeking to add a Director of Strategic Intelligence to its Enterprise Strategy team that is responsible for competitive and market intelligence for CSBD. In this challenging and highly visible role, this individual will support the Enterprise Strategy and Operations team’s mandate to develop and disperse strategic intelligence. Themes to be covered include market analysis, emerging industry trends, portfolio analysis, and identification of strategic needs as it relates to the pursuit of new business endeavors. Topics will likely include biopharma services, digital health, and risk bearing entities. This role will provide leadership in the design, development and implementation of the competitive and market intelligence initiative that supports CSBD’s role in McKesson’s objective to achieve better business health for our customers and better care for all.

Position Description

• Builds out capabilities and processes within CSBD to gather, synthesize, and disseminate market & competitive intelligence
• Works across the organization to connect with other pockets of market & competitive intelligence to facilitate exchange of information, ideas, and insights
• Develops point-of-view reports on select healthcare stakeholder groups and the implications of their strategies for McKesson
• Identifies, scopes and manages projects end-to-end; maintains responsibility for deliverables and timelines, shifting priorities as needed; manages stakeholder relationships and expectations
• Develops and manages a network of contacts that can provide unique access, perspectives, insights on healthcare industry activities
• Maintains thorough knowledge of company's products, competition, and broader market dynamics that frame the business context both present and over the next decade
• Facilitates market disruption conversations and workshops across the CSBD team through structured hypotheses, detailed analyses, and synthesized insights leading to recommendations to senior management
• Drives development of executive engagement material for the annual strategic planning cycle
• Builds trust and productive relationships with team members and stakeholders across the organization
• Influences and gains acceptance of others to one’s ideas through effective communication, relevant and insightful analyses, and creative thinking
• Estimated: 70% of time will be dedicated to competitive and market intelligence, and 30% supporting other Enterprise Strategy initiatives (e.g., material development for executive and Board of Director strategy meetings.)

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years healthcare experience, preferably strategy and / or market intelligence

Critical Skills

• Highly prefer candidates with prior management consulting experience with experience in managing complex healthcare-related projects, or candidates from a healthcare organization with a successful track record in strategy or competitive / market intelligence
• Healthcare Knowledge: broad knowledge of stakeholders, trends, economic drivers and policy across healthcare – with specific focus on biopharma, biopharma services, payers & risk bearers, and digital health
• Communications Skills: ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization, promote ideas and proposals persuasively; excellent written communication skills to convey complex ideas via Word and PowerPoint
• Strategic Thinking: evaluating industry trends, developing long-term implications and recommending pragmatic strategies for new business opportunities
• Analytical Rigor: ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and intellectual leadership to problem solving; synthesize insights from analysis and ensure credible, actionable recommendations
• Financial Acumen: ability to understand and interpret financial statements of competitors to derive intelligence and insights

Education

• 4-year Bachelor's degree in business or finance, or related field or equivalent experience
• MBA preferred