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Position Overview:

The Director of Project & Design provides enterprise leadership, strategy, and governance for capital project delivery and design execution across McKesson’s real estate and facilities portfolio. This role establishes and enforces an enterprise operating model for project and design delivery, ensuring consistency, scalability, risk management, and predictable outcomes across business units and asset types.

The Director has enterprise accountability for the full project lifecycle—including planning, design, procurement, construction, and closeout—and determines how enterprise‑approved delivery models are deployed based on asset class, complexity, and risk. Delivery models are differentiated within a governed framework, rather than customized independently by project or business unit.

Acting as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, this role translates enterprise strategy into standardized delivery approaches that balance speed, cost certainty, risk mitigation, and operational continuity. The Director leads the enterprise adoption and integration of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), hybrid, and traditional delivery models into governance, contracting, performance management, and execution—driving disciplined, repeatable outcomes at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Delivery Strategy & Governance:

• Establish and govern the enterprise project and design delivery framework across internal teams, preferred partners, and hybrid delivery models.
• Define when and how delivery models (owner‑led, hybrid, design‑build, IPD) are deployed based on asset type, complexity, risk, urgency, and business strategy.
• Govern capital standards, stage gates, performance metrics, and financial controls while enabling proportional flexibility by business unit and asset type.
• Serve as a senior advisor to executive leadership, translating enterprise and business unit strategies into scalable, right‑fit delivery solutions.
• Ensure delivery model decisions balance speed, cost certainty, risk mitigation, operational continuity, and lifecycle value.

Project, Program & Financial Oversight:

• Maintain executive‑level accountability for the successful delivery of all project management and design services across the enterprise, regardless of delivery model.
• Oversee enterprise portfolio‑level financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, cost controls, commercial structures, and risk exposure.
• Ensure standardized enterprise tools, processes, and reporting frameworks are consistently applied and scaled across all projects and programs.
• Partner with the PMO to deliver enterprise‑grade portfolio reporting, including cost, schedule, risk, performance trends, and variance analysis.
• Govern execution of hybrid and IPD projects to ensure transparent cost management, disciplined decision‑making, and integrated accountability.

Design Governance & Workplace Integration:

• Provide enterprise oversight of design outcomes across industrial, clinical/medical office, and workplace portfolios, while recognizing business leaders as final design decision‑makers within enterprise standards.
• Establish and govern enterprise design principles, performance targets, standards, and kits of parts to drive consistency, efficiency, and scalability.
• Ensure all design solutions align with enterprise requirements for operational performance, regulatory compliance, constructability, lifecycle value, and speed to market.
• Hold architectural and design partners accountable for quality, space utilization, constructability, and adherence to enterprise standards.
• Evolve the Design Manager function from project‑specific oversight to enterprise design governance, standards stewardship, and value optimization.

Asset‑Specific Delivery & Design Leadership:

• Industrial / Distribution Facilities
  • Govern enterprise delivery strategies that support material flow, automation, safety, uptime, and scalability while minimizing operational disruption.
• Clinical / Medical Office Facilities
  • Ensure enterprise compliance with healthcare codes, infection control, patient experience, privacy, accessibility, and clinical operations across all clinical assets.
• Office / Workplace
  • Deliver enterprise‑aligned workplace environments that balance employee experience, flexibility, technology enablement, and space efficiency.

Provider Strategy, RFPs & Contracting:

• Lead enterprise‑wide RFP development and execution for project management, design, and construction services.
• Structure enterprise commercial models, fee frameworks, KPIs, SLAs, and incentives aligned to IPD and hybrid delivery strategies.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Risk to structure contracts that support shared accountability, transparency, and enterprise risk management.
• Govern provider performance through enterprise scorecards, QBRs, and corrective action plans.
• Serve as the executive escalation point for enterprise delivery issues related to quality, cost, schedule, and risk.

Risk, Compliance & Safety:

• Provide executive oversight to ensure enterprise compliance with regulatory, life‑safety, environmental, and occupational health requirements.
• Establish enterprise processes for proactive risk identification, mitigation, escalation, and resolution across all asset types and delivery models.

Executive Reporting & Portfolio Performance:

• Establish executive‑level reporting on capital spend, delivery performance, risk exposure, provider performance, and value realization.
• Communicate trends, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior leadership to support informed investment decisions.

People Leadership & Organizational Development:

• Lead and mentor senior leaders across project management, design management, delivery governance, and partner oversight functions.
• Oversee enterprise workforce and succession planning, balancing internal expertise with scalable external capacity.
• Drive enterprise change management to support evolving delivery models with clear role definition, accountability, and governance.
• Establish enterprise talent development and training strategies that build consistent, high‑performing project and design capabilities.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 12+ years of professional experience and 4+ years of management experience.

Preferred Job Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):

Education/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Real Estate, Finance, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• Masters degree preferred.

Business Experience:

• 12+ years of progressive senior leadership experience delivering enterprise‑scale, multi‑site portfolios across industrial, clinical/medical office, and workplace environments.

• Demonstrated success establishing and governing enterprise delivery operating models across diverse asset types.
• Proven ability to lead internal teams and hold external providers accountable within enterprise governance frameworks.
• Strong financial, contractual, strategic, and executive communication skills.
• Experience implementing and governing Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and hybrid delivery models across complex, regulated, or mission‑critical environments.

Core Competencies:

• Enterprise project and design governance
• Multi‑asset portfolio leadership
• Capital financial management (CAPEX / OPEX)
• Provider contracting and performance management
• Executive stakeholder influence
• Organizational change management and transformation

Working Conditions:

• General Office Demands
• Travel – up to 25-30% domestic

(This description is general in nature and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities.  Other duties may be assigned as needed to meet company goals.)

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

$137,900 - $229,800

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