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. Job title: Sr Director, Data Strategy & Advanced Analytics Current Need We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Senior Director of Data Strategy and Advanced Analytics to join the Decision Intelligence (DI) team of our Pharmaceutical Solutions and Services (PSaS) business. He/she sets the overall data and AI strategy to leverage data across all parts of the business with an overarching eye on what can be done with data, what should be done with data, and where the opportunities to monetize data are through the thoughtful incorporation of data in existing products and new innovative AI solutions. The ideal candidate will be an expert in leveraging data to enhance business outcomes and have a strong understanding of modern AI technologies, machine learning models, and the underlying infrastructure & engineering to reliably deploy these models at scale. Essential job responsibilities Develop vision and strategy for business-wide data initiatives to support business performance including comprehensive AI strategy for achieving measurable returns on data and AI investments. Partner closely with data product development teams, to understand all analytical use cases across the business, determine AI integration strategies, prioritize efforts, and drive the design, development, and implementation of AI/ML models Lead, motivate, and inspire teams to embrace AI technologies and contribute to the organization's overall success Lead team of data scientists to implement initiatives to gain valuable insights from AI implementation efforts, leveraging data to inform decision-making and improve operational efficiency Provide both strategic and hands-on leadership for the data science teams, by aligning their goals with the enterprise goals, and measuring their performance against those goals Streamline AI/ML delivery process with "fail fast" approach for experimenting and Agile implementation process to scale the solutions that has been proven to be valuable for the business Accountable for ensuring AI engineering frameworks, ML systems, data pipelines and security with enterprise value priorities and are deployable Have a deep understanding and appreciation for data governance and AI governance principles and coach the teams to adopt the guidelines for the same Drive key AI initiatives, providing clear timelines and actionable plans for implementation Develop 3rd party data acquisition strategy for the business segment Identify areas needed to up-skill the expertise by attracting new talent to McKesson and/or implementing strategic sourcing partnerships Accountable for aligning with enterprise ML infrastructure decisions and leading ML Engineering and operations team for all of PSaS Ensures all code is well-managed to reduce vulnerabilities, models are well-governed from a risk perspective, and the ML follows best practices in Responsible and Explainable AI. Continuously monitor and optimize AI models and algorithms to improve performance and reliability. Critical / Must have skills We seek an accomplished leader, with demonstrated success in leading large teams and transforming companies to be data-driven, leveraging advances in technology & analytics. Specifically, s/he will possess the following: 13+ years of healthcare data and anal