Key Responsibilities
Responsibility
Approx. %
Expected Results and Key Activities
Strategic Change Leadership & Workforce Readiness
40%
Lead strategic change and workforce readiness efforts for complex technology-enabled initiatives that materially alter work, roles, processes, and operating models.
Advise senior leaders on workforce implications, organizational risks, readiness priorities, and change interventions required to navigate changes in work successfully.
Shape executive understanding of workforce and organizational impacts associated with business and technology investments.
Develop integrated workforce readiness strategies that align leadership, stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, and sustainment activities to business outcomes.
Guide leaders and teams through ambiguity, translating future-state decisions into practical actions for employees and the organization.
Work Redesign & Workforce Evolution
25%
Assess how AI, automation, digital platforms, process changes, and other technologies alter tasks, workflows, handoffs, decision rights, and role expectations.
Partner across corporate functions and with technology, process, product, and business teams to define future-state work and identify opportunities to redesign work.
Clarify which work should be automated, augmented, redesigned, or retained for human judgment based on business needs and intended outcomes.
Translate future-state work into workforce, role, capability, organization, and change implications.
Workforce Impact Planning & Talent Mobility
15%
Evaluate workforce impacts resulting from technology-enabled changes to work.
Translate changes in work into implications for skills, capacity, roles, hiring, talent movement, and learning.
Identify career adjacencies and talent mobility pathways for employees whose capabilities overlap with emerging roles or priority needs.
Partner across corporate functions with Talent, Learning, HR, workforce intelligence, and business stakeholders to develop practical workforce transition actions.
Workforce Insights & Planning
10%
Partner with workforce intelligence and leaders across corporate functions to identify future capability needs, workforce risks, and talent opportunities associated with changes in work.
Contribute workforce impact assessments, scenarios, and readiness recommendations that support strategic workforce planning and business decisions.
Use workforce data, business context, and employee insights to identify risks and recommend actions.
Executive Advisory, Governance & Measurement
10%
Prepare executive-ready insights, recommendations, and decision materials for leadership reviews, governance forums, and priority initiatives.
Define and track workforce readiness, work redesign, change, and sustainment measures in partnership with program and business teams.
Influence and align leaders across corporate functions, disciplines, and stakeholder groups to advance Workforce Readiness priorities and outcomes.
Develop reusable frameworks, tools, and practices that strengthen strategic change leadership and Workforce Readiness across McKesson.
Minimum Job Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities)
Education/Training
4-year degree in change management, human resources, business, psychology, organizational development, technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Master’s degree preferred. Change management certification preferred.
Business Experience
10+ years relevant experience in change leadership, organization effectiveness, workforce readiness, strategic workforce planning, technology-enabled change, consulting, or related fields.
Demonstrated experience leading strategic change for complex technology, AI, automation, digital, process, or operating model initiatives.
Experience advising senior leaders and influencing cross-functional decisions in a large, complex, matrixed organization.
Critical Skills
Strategic Change Leadership: Shapes and leads complex organizational change efforts that reshape how work is performed.
Work Redesign & Future of Work: Assesses how technology changes tasks, roles, workflows, and workforce requirements.
Workforce Readiness: Translates workforce and organizational impacts into targeted readiness and change actions.
Enterprise Partnership & Influence: Aligns leaders across corporate functions, technology teams, HR, workforce intelligence, and business stakeholder groups.
Executive Communication: Synthesizes complex content into clear, concise, decision-ready recommendations.
Data-Informed Decision Making: Uses workforce insights, readiness indicators, and feedback to guide action and measure outcomes.
Working Conditions
Traditional office environment. Travel may be required based on business need.
Large percent of time performing computer-based work is required. General office demands.
Note: HR should confirm the final job family, job code, grade, FLSA status, location, compensation details, and posting language before requisition submission.
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Our Base Pay Range for this position
$122,100 - $162,800
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