Principal BU Client Leader

McKesson•Columbus, OH

About The Position

McKesson is seeking an experienced professional for a highly visible individual-contributor role serving as the primary bridge between business leadership and enterprise infrastructure and platform teams. The role ensures infrastructure capabilities align with business priorities by translating strategy into actionable plans that support growth, modernization, and day-to-day operations. It brings structure to planning and prioritization and helps leaders make informed decisions about investment, tradeoffs, and risk. The position drives integrated planning across demand, capacity, cost, and risk, while providing visibility into infrastructure risks, performance, and dependencies. It requires broad understanding of enterprise infrastructure domains, such as cloud, network, platforms, and end-user technologies, and the ability to explain technical concepts in business-relevant language. The role does not design or deliver technical solutions; instead, it aligns business and technical teams and leads the business relationship, engagement, governance, and communication with Enterprise Infrastructure and Technology Platforms.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent.
Typically requires 13+ years of experience, with 8+ years of direct work-related experience; fewer years may be required with relevant master's or doctorate qualifications.
Infrastructure literacy across domains.
IT Financial Management.
Executive communication.
Strategic planning.
Ownership and accountability.
Governance and decision management.
Cross-functional coordination.
Technology Risk Management.

Responsibilities

Build a deep understanding of business unit strategy, priorities, and operating model, and translate that context across infrastructure teams to drive aligned outcomes.
Develop and drive a multi-year infrastructure roadmap aligned to business unit strategy, integrating modernization, growth initiatives, and core operations.
Partner with business unit leadership to embed infrastructure early in planning cycles, enabling proactive engagement, clear prioritization, and value realization.
Communicate infrastructure strategy, tradeoffs, and business impact to senior stakeholders to support informed decision-making.
Lead integrated planning by aligning demand, capacity, cost, and risk, ensuring decisions are transparent, governed, and clearly owned.
Maintain a business-unit-level infrastructure risk register, ensuring visibility, mitigation planning, and formal acceptance where required.
Represent business unit priorities in enterprise portfolio and capacity planning processes, surfacing resource constraints and cross-initiative dependencies.
Partner with delivery teams to ensure plans are realistic, risks are managed, and execution is set up for success.
Align demand with funding and ensure financial discipline across infrastructure investments and cost management.
Serve as the primary relationship leader and point of entry for the business unit, establishing governance, engagement cadence, and alignment with Enterprise Infrastructure and Technology Platforms services.