Dir. Pharmacy Data Products

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What You'll Do

The Director of Data Products is responsible for defining and delivering a portfolio of pharmacy derived data products that enable clinical, operational, financial, and population health insights across the enterprise and for external customers. This role transforms complex healthcare data—claims, clinical, pharmacy, provider, and access data—into trusted, scalable, and compliant products that drive better outcomes, affordability, and performance.

The Director partners closely with clinical, pharmacy, operations, compliance, technology, and analytics teams to ensure data products support regulatory requirements, care delivery, value-based care, and strategic growth initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Pharmacy Data Product Strategy & Vision

Define and own the pharmacy data product strategy, aligning with enterprise objectives such as quality improvement, cost containment, access, and population health.

Develop and manage a multi-year roadmap for healthcare data platforms and products, including claims, clinical, pharmacy, provider, risk adjustment, quality, and utilization data assets.

Identify opportunities to enable value-based care, regulatory reporting, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Product Development & Delivery

Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of pharmacy data products, from discovery and business case development through design, launch, adoption, and optimization.

Partner with data engineering, analytics, interoperability, and platform teams to deliver reliable, performant, and scalable data products.

Define product requirements, KPIs, and success metrics such as data quality, timeliness, completeness, user adoption, and business impact.

Cross-Functional & Clinical Partnership

Serve as the primary data product leader, collaborating with Access, Provider, Pharmacy, Operations, Finance, Legal/Compliance, and Engineering stakeholders.

Translate Pharmacy and data complexity into clear insights and value propositions for executive, clinical, and non-technical audiences.

Support client-facing, sales, and account teams with pharmacy data product positioning, reporting capabilities, and analytics enablement (as applicable).

Data Governance, Privacy & Compliance

Ensure healthcare data products comply with HIPAA, HITECH, CMS, state regulations, and internal privacy and security standards.

Partner with governance teams to implement data stewardship, lineage, metadata management, role-based access, and auditability.

Drive a culture of data trust, accuracy, and responsible use, particularly for clinical and member-sensitive data.

Financial & Value Management

Own prioritization, funding requests, and ROI measurement for healthcare data product investments.

Quantify and communicate value across quality performance, medical cost savings, operational efficiency, and risk reduction.

Advanced Analytics & Innovation

Champion innovation in predictive analytics, AI/ML-enabled insights, population health analytics, and real-time reporting.

Evaluate and integrate external data sources (e.g., SDOH, clinical feeds, digital health, pharmacy data) to enhance product differentiation.

People Leadership

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data product managers and product owners.

Establish best practices for healthcare data product management, agile execution, and stakeholder engagement.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, MPH, MS in Health Informatics, Analytics, or related advanced degree strongly preferred.

8–12+ years of experience in healthcare data, analytics, or product management roles.

Deep knowledge of healthcare data domains, including claims, clinical (EHR), pharmacy, provider, and quality data.

Experience operating in highly regulated healthcare environments.

Proven ability to deliver complex data products with measurable clinical, operational, or financial outcomes.

Strong executive communication and influence skills.

Preferred Experience

Experience within a health plan, PBM, provider system, or healthcare technology company.

Familiarity with value-based care, quality measurement (HEDIS, Stars), risk adjustment, and utilization management.

Experience supporting regulatory reporting and compliance use cases.

Prior people leadership experience in data or product organizations.

Key Competencies

Healthcare domain expertise

Data product leadership and vision

Clinical and business partnership

Regulatory and compliance awareness

Data-driven decision making

Cross-functional influence

Success Measures

Adoption and satisfaction of healthcare data products by clinical, operational, and business users

Improvements in data quality, accessibility, and time-to-insight

Support of quality, cost, and population health outcomes

Successful delivery against roadmap with regulatory compliance

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$133,500 - $222,500

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