CSI Strategy Intern - Summer 2027

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

Strategy Intern - Commercial Strategy & Innovation (CSI)

Reporting to the Director, Strategy – Commercial Strategy & Innovation (CSI), this role supports the development and execution of CSI’s strategy across its businesses, products, and innovation portfolio. The Strategy Intern will help translate enterprise and market dynamics into strategic priorities, evaluate growth and value-creation opportunities, and develop fact-based recommendations that inform where CSI plays, how it competes, and where it invests.

In this highly visible role, you will partner with CSI leaders, business and functional teams, and product leaders to solve complex strategic questions, develop executive-ready analyses, and connect strategy to portfolio priorities and execution. The role requires strong analytical thinking, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to synthesize disparate inputs into clear insights, implications, and recommendations.

Responsibilities

(40%) Strategic Analysis & Strategy Development – Support strategic analyses across CSI businesses, products, and functional priorities. Structure ambiguous business questions, develop hypotheses and fact bases, assess strategic alternatives, and translate findings into clear recommendations. Support development and refinement of CSI’s long-term strategy, strategic priorities, and “where to play and how to win” choices.

(30%) Growth, Portfolio & Value Creation – Evaluate growth opportunities, portfolio priorities, and potential sources of differentiation and enterprise value. Conduct opportunity sizing, business and market assessments, competitive analyses, and other quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform investment and prioritization decisions.

(20%) Strategic Planning & Strategy Management – Support the processes and mechanisms that translate strategy into action, including strategic planning, objectives and key results (OKRs), portfolio reviews, business reviews, and leadership discussions. Help assess progress against strategic priorities, identify risks and dependencies, and synthesize implications for leadership.

(10%) Market & Competitive Insights – Conduct targeted primary and secondary research to understand relevant healthcare, customer, competitor, technology, and market dynamics. Synthesize external insights into implications for CSI’s businesses, portfolio, and long-term strategic direction.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience.

MBA or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Healthcare Management, Public Health, Economics, Analytics, or Strategy preferred.

Strategic Thinking – Ability to structure complex business problems, evaluate strategic alternatives, connect insights across workstreams, and translate analysis into actionable recommendations.

Analytical Rigor – Ability to develop fact-based analyses using quantitative and qualitative information and bring structure to ambiguous or undefined problems.