Lead Counsel - Data Strategy, Governance & Emerging Technology

$155,900 - $259,900/Yr

McKesson - Irwin, OH

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Irwin, OH

5,001-10,000 employees

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and Drive Change by leveraging deep knowledge and experience in data strategy and enablement, privacy, and various emerging technology laws and regulations to deliver actionable, risk-based guidance to the enterprise.
• Provide Strategic Counseling by 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.
• Collaborate and Influence by working independently and collaboratively across multiple businesses and stakeholders to drive organizational change while considering the broader implications to business unit/functional areas.
• Navigate Complexity by skillfully navigating a highly matrixed organization, building relationships across the enterprise and influencing at the highest level to drive results.
• Lead and Execute by addressing novel and complex legal issues, serving as a key leader on project teams, and ensuring accountability for enterprise-level data initiatives.
• Integrate and Align Data Strategies by harmonizing business unit data priorities with the enterprise data strategy to provide solution-oriented and data-enabling guidance.
• Manage Multiple Priorities by being highly proactive, accountable, team-oriented, and capable of managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Monitor and Adapt to Evolving Laws by staying abreast of evolving laws, regulations, and industry best practices to guide the enterprise through evolving requirements and external influencing strategies.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a practicing attorney with firm and/or in-house experience
• 5+ years of specialized experience in data strategy and enablement, privacy, and/or technology law
• Member of a U.S. state bar in good standing
• Experience advising both business and legal leaders on complex legal, regulatory, and policy questions in the areas of data strategy and enablement, privacy, emerging technology law, and data governance.
• In-depth expertise on HIPAA and other healthcare privacy laws with an emphasis on data rights, data enablement and data strategy.
• Detailed knowledge of a broad range of additional privacy and data protection laws including, the FTC Act, TCPA, biometrics laws, federal cybersecurity laws, evolving AI laws and regulations, state consumer protection laws, state breach notification laws and laws impacting employee data.
• Experience conducting privacy, cybersecurity, and technology-focused legal reviews of new or existing technology, services, and product offering with the ability to quickly learn technical concepts.
• Advanced knowledge of trends and issues applicable to privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and emerging technology arenas.
• Possess well-developed insights on emerging technology to include AI/machine learning, generative AI, and data privacy-enhancing technologies such as synthetic data, tokenization, and anonymization/de-identification.
• Experience leading and/or supporting the development of strategic data governance frameworks and their associated rollouts across a complex enterprise.
• Ability to monitor and evaluate evolving laws, regulations, and industry best practices to help the enterprise navigate new requirements against both existing and anticipated business models.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience counseling major corporations in the healthcare industry on data initiatives.
• Proven track record of successfully navigating emerging areas of privacy and technology law and building effective data enabling frameworks.
• Ability to provide strategic legal advice from a data strategy and enablement privacy, cyber, and technology law perspective in various complex business transactions.
• Ability to effectively and efficiently collaborate with internal stakeholders to support due diligence, analysis, preparation, drafting, and/or negotiation of pertinent third-party business arrangements.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including base pay, annual bonus, and long-term incentive opportunities.
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
• 401k retirement savings plan with matching contributions.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities.