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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.\nWhat 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.\nThe Senior Director, Change Management leads the change management function supporting business modernization across McKesson’s pharmaceutical distribution and related operations. This leader is accountable for change strategy, delivery quality, and measurable adoption outcomes across a portfolio of transformation initiatives affecting distribution centers, customer-facing teams, business support functions, and corporate partners.\nReporting to the Vice President, Business Modernization Office, this role directly leads Directors and delivers results through their teams of change management professionals. The Senior Director sets functional direction, establishes clear portfolio accountabilities, allocates resources across competing priorities, and holds leaders accountable for organizational readiness, adoption, and sustained results. As a trusted advisor to senior business and functional leaders, this role translates strategic priorities into coordinated change plans that help employees and leaders adopt new processes, technologies, operating models, and ways of working.\nThe Senior Director establishes the function’s operating model, standards, tools, and capabilities, strengthening the organization’s ability to navigate continuous change and realize value from transformation investments. The role may also lead company-wide change initiatives as assigned by the Vice President, Business Modernization Office.\nKey Responsibilities\nPeople Leadership & Team Development\nDirectly lead, develop, and coach Director-level change management leaders, establishing clear portfolio responsibilities, performance expectations, and accountability for results delivered through their teams.\nRecruit, hire, and retain change management talent; shape organizational structure, roles, and capabilities to meet current and future transformation needs.\nHold Directors accountable for team performance and talent development; provide coaching, performance management, and development planning that strengthen leadership capability throughout the function.\nAllocate and rebalance resources across Director-led portfolios based on business priorities, complexity, operational criticality, and available capacity.\nFoster an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance culture grounded in continuous learning, quality, and customer focus.\nEstablish delivery standards and oversee quality across portfolios, ensuring consistent methods while enabling Directors to tailor execution to business needs.\nChange Strategy & Executive Advisory\nDefine and own the integrated change management strategy for the supported businesses, translating business and company-wide modernization priorities into functional objectives, standards, and coordinated portfolio plans.\nAdvise senior leaders on change risks, workforce impacts, stakeholder alignment, adoption barriers, and actions needed to achieve sustainable business results.\nLead company-wide change initiatives as assigned, partnering with transformation and functional leaders to coordinate adoption across McKesson while accounting for impacts on the supported businesses.\nDirect change management leaders in developing portfolio-specific plans for readiness, communications, leader enablement, training, adoption measurement, and sustainment; maintain accountability for alignment and outcomes across portfolios.\nAlign operations, distribution center, sales, customer-facing, technology, human resources, communications, and transformation partners to resolve risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.\nUse organizational insights, data, and judgment to recommend targeted actions that improve adoption, employee engagement, and transformation effectiveness.\nOwn the change management operating model in partnership with corporate functions, defining responsibilities, handoffs, and decision-making processes that integrate people, process, technology, and organizational changes, implementing AI-first processes where possible.\nCapability Building\nEstablish and continuously improve change management tools, templates, playbooks, standards, and reusable practices that support consistent delivery across initiatives.\nBuild change leadership capability through leader coaching, stakeholder engagement, networks of employees who support adoption, and scalable learning experiences for corporate, frontline, and distribution center audiences.\nDevelop the professional capabilities of the change management team through methods, training, and emerging practices, including AI-enabled ways of working.\nPartner with program teams and business owners to build the capabilities needed to embed new ways of working into day-to-day operations.\nPortfolio Readiness & Adoption Measurement\nOwn the integrated change management portfolio, coordinating priorities and resource allocation across Director-led teams in partnership with the Business Modernization Office and senior business leaders.\nResolve cross-portfolio delivery trade-offs and escalate conflicts requiring broader business decisions.\nAssess cumulative change impacts to identify risks related to timing, capacity, competing demands on employees, operational disruption, dependencies, and readiness.\nIdentify shared needs and interdependencies across business units to coordinate delivery and create a consistent change experience.\nRecommend adjustments to initiative prioritization and sequencing based on organizational capacity, adoption risk, and business criticality.\nEstablish common readiness indicators, adoption measures, and reporting expectations; hold Directors accountable for monitoring results, addressing gaps, and implementing targeted interventions.\nUse employee feedback, adoption data, operational metrics, and lessons learned to improve change plans and transformation execution.\nCommunications & Stakeholder Engagement\nDevelop clear change narratives that connect transformation priorities to business outcomes, customer and employee impacts, and the behaviors needed for success.\nEquip leaders and people managers to communicate effectively, address uncertainty, reinforce adoption expectations, and build commitment to new ways of working.\nEnsure communications are consistent across initiatives and aligned with company-wide messaging, while adapting to the needs of different businesses, functions, locations, and audiences.\nRepresent the change management function in leadership meetings, transformation decision-making forums, and company-wide communities of change management professionals.\nMinimum Requirement\nDegree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 13+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in organizational effectiveness, organizational development, human resources, business, communications, operations, technology, industrial-organizational psychology, or related field, or equivalent experience.\nCritical Skills\nTypically requires 13+ years of relevant experience in change management, business transformation, organizational design, human capital consulting, strategy execution, or related fields.\n6+ years of progressive people leadership experience, including leading other people leaders and managing multi-level teams of change management or transformation professionals.\nExperience leading change for large-scale, cross-functional transformation initiatives with organizational, workforce, process, technology, or operating model impacts.\nDemonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate alignment, manage ambiguity, and recommend practical solutions to complex organizational challenges.\nExperience developing and overseeing change strategies, stakeholder plans, readiness approaches, communications, leader enablement, adoption measures, and sustainment practices.\nStrong executive communication, facilitation, analytical thinking, organizational diagnosis, and relationship-building skills.\nAdditional Skills\nDemonstrated ability to lead leaders, set direction for a multi-level organization, develop Director-level talent, establish accountability, and deliver results through teams.\nChange management expertise, including stakeholder alignment, readiness, adoption, sustainment, and behavior change\nAbility to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners through expertise, data, facilitation, and sound judgment\nExperience leading change for complex transformations involving operating model, process, technology, workforce, or ways-of-working changes, ideally in operational or distribution environments\nStrong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable messages for varied audiences, from executives to frontline teams\nAnalytical skills, including use of employee insights, readiness data, adoption measures, and feedback to diagnose risks and recommend actions\nAbility to set direction, prioritize competing demands, and allocate resources in a matrixed, fast-paced environment with ambiguity\nConsulting, facilitation, and coaching skills that build leader, stakeholder, and team capability during periods of change\nCuriosity and fluency with emerging workplace trends, including digital transformation, AI-enabled ways of working, and evolving workforce expectations\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced degree or certification in change management (e.g., Prosci, ACMP), organizational development, human capital, business 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