McKesson - Dallas, TX
posted 3 months ago
McKesson's well-regarded General Counsel's Organization is seeking an experienced, pragmatic attorney specializing in data enablement, privacy, and emerging technology to provide decisive legal leadership and strategic advice on McKesson's data initiatives across its broad portfolio of healthcare-oriented businesses. The Lead Counsel, Data Strategy, Governance & Emerging Technology, will be pivotal in McKesson's risk mitigation and value-generation strategies. Reporting to the Managing Chief Counsel, Enterprise Data Privacy, Security and Technology Law, this role will focus on enterprise-level data initiatives while solutioning for nuanced data use cases, prevailing privacy requirements, and evolving technology capabilities, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). This position requires a dynamic leader who will proactively collaborate with business unit attorneys and business executives at the highest levels across the enterprise to drive innovation while adeptly managing risk within the highly regulated healthcare industry. The successful candidate will innovate and drive change by leveraging deep knowledge and experience in data strategy and enablement, privacy (including experience with HIPAA/healthcare privacy issues), and various emerging technology laws and regulations to deliver actionable, risk-based guidance to the enterprise. They will provide strategic counseling, offering excellent legal judgment and communication skills while providing pragmatic, business-oriented advice, and strategic insights to support the enterprise's data-driven objectives and priorities. The role also involves collaborating and influencing across multiple businesses and stakeholders to drive organizational change while considering the broader implications to business unit/functional areas. Additionally, the candidate will need to navigate complexity skillfully within a highly matrixed organization, building relationships across the enterprise and influencing at the highest level to drive results. They will lead and execute enterprise-level data initiatives by addressing novel and complex legal issues, serving as a key leader on project teams, and ensuring accountability. The candidate will integrate and align data strategies, harmonizing business unit data priorities with the enterprise data strategy to provide solution-oriented and data-enabling guidance. They must be highly proactive, accountable, team-oriented, and capable of managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Finally, they will monitor and adapt to evolving laws, regulations, and industry best practices to guide the enterprise through evolving requirements and external influencing strategies.