Sr. Manager, Workforce Readiness

Mckesson Corporation; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 138,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson Corporation seeks a Senior Manager, Workforce Readiness to design and execute change management strategies for major technology and process transformations across McKesson Technology. The role partners with executives and portfolio leads to drive adoption, readiness, and consistent messaging in a fast-moving program.

You will lead governance, metrics, and communications, shaping integrated change narratives and ensuring cross-workstream alignment across MTAP and AMO.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in change management, human resources, psychology, business or related field.
• Master’s degree preferred for advanced roles.
• Experience leading change management in large, matrixed organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and integrate change management strategies across major technology and process transformations.
• Lead synthesis of change impacts across MTAP workstreams and AMO areas.
• Develop portfolio-level readiness, stakeholder engagement, and communications.
• Create customized change strategies, tools, plans, and communications to drive adoption.
• Define change metrics, readiness indicators, and executive-ready updates.
• Lead change agent networks and gather field feedback.

Skills

Business mindset

AI & automation fluency

Workforce strategy & change management

Capability & culture builder

Consulting skills

Data-driven decision making

Ambiguity handling

Education

4-year degree in change management

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Position Description

The Senior Manager,Workforce Readiness is responsible for designing, executing, and integrating change management strategies that support major technology, process, and organizational transformations across McKesson Technology. The role independently leads change delivery for assigned business units or MTAP portfolios while contributing to program-level integration, governance, and executive communications.

This leader partners closely with Mckesson Technology executives, portfolio leads, and functional teams to synthesize impacts, drive adoption, enable readiness, and ensure consistent messaging across a highly visible and fast-moving program.

Key Responsibilities

Workforce Innovation & Capability Building

• Prototype and test new approaches such as:
• Strategic workforce planning and scenario modeling
• Human + AI collaboration frameworks
• Automation opportunity identification
• Translate learnings into repeatable frameworks, tools, or products that can scale

Portfolio-Level Change Integration

• Lead synthesis of change impacts across 1–2 MTAP workstreams and AMO areas, identifying cross-workstream dependencies, risks, and alignment gaps.
• Develop a portfolio-level point of view on readiness, stakeholder engagement, and employee impact to inform program updates and leadership decisions.
• Shape and contribute to MTAP’s integrated change narrative, ensuring clarity, consistency, and accuracy.

Workforce Readiness & ChangeDelivery

• Lead development of customized change strategies, tools, plans, and communications that drive adoption of organizational, process, and technology changes.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis, readiness assessments, and impact evaluations to anticipate barriers and define appropriate interventions.
• Establish and lead change agent and people leader networks to drive adoption and gather feedback from the field.

Governance, Metrics & Reporting

• Support MTAP governance forums by preparing executive-ready pre-reads, updates, insights, and recommendations.
• Define and track change adoption metrics, readiness indicators, and engagement KPIs; prepare dashboards or summaries for senior audiences.
• Monitor risks and issues related to change and elevate or mitigate appropriately.

Communications Leadership

• Independently manage SharePoint content, ensuring messages and materials are current, accurate, and easy to navigate.
• Craft clear, high-impact communications, including newsletters, weekly updates, progress summaries, and key messages for broad audiences.
• Lead weekly engagement sessions, information cascades, and forums to drive alignment across application owners and teams.

This role will also support organization design, process design, and other workforce transformation or transition activities required to successfully achieve the desired program outcomes.

Minimum Requirements

8+ yearsrelevantexperience.

Critical Skills

• Business mindset: able to understand the business and financial conditions, link HR and business strategy, and identify ways to improve business performance
• AI & Automation Fluency:Embed AI and automation considerations into all workforce planning and transformation efforts and help shape how human and digital work coexist across functions
• Workforce Strategy& Change Management:demonstrated experience in articulating the business case for change, evaluating change readiness, building and executing stakeholder plans and transition activities, and managing sustained change and transition
• Capability & Culture Builder:skilled at identifying and assessing current organizational capabilities, building what’s required, shaping and supporting culture, and aligning organizational programs to reinforce culture
• Consulting Skills:Able to tailor your communication style to work well with stakeholders at all levels in the organization; effective at listening, influencing, facilitating, and problem solving
• Leveraging data and technology: Able to effectively identify, utilize and present data in a way that facilitates evidence-based decision‑making.
• Deliver outcomes in the face of ambiguity: ability to bring definition and identify next steps when encountering ambiguous requests or navigating complex environments

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Experience with using Microsoft Copilot and other AI tools in daily work life
• Experience with supporting functions through enterprise transformation efforts required
• Change management experience
• Experience in a large, complex, matrixed organization preferred
• Expertise in Microsoft office (PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel)

Education

4-year degree in change management, human resources,psychology,business or related field or equivalent experience, master’s degree preferred.

Physical Requirements

General Office Demands

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Our Base Pay Range for this position

$99,100 - $132,100

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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