Sr. Manager Workforce Readiness & Change

McKesson; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 99,100 - 132,100; Full time

Job summary

McKesson seeks a Senior Manager of Workforce Readiness & Change in Mississauga to design and execute change management strategies supporting major technology and organizational transformations. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of relevant experience, strong business mindset, and proven success in managing sustained change in complex environments.

This role is integral to driving adoption, engagement, and alignment across programs while partnering with various leadership teams.

Competitive compensation offers a salary range of $99,100 - $132,100 along with other benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Ability to understand business and financial conditions.
• Experience in articulating the business case for change.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute change management strategies for major transformations.
• Lead synthesis of change impacts across workstreams.
• Develop customized change strategies, tools, and communications.

Skills

Business mindset

AI & Automation Fluency

Workforce Strategy & Change Management

Capability & culture builder

Consulting skills

Leveraging data and technology

Deliver outcomes in the face of ambiguity

Education

4-year degree in change management or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel)

Job description

About McKesson

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.

Position Description

The pace of business and technology transformation, particularly with AI, is outpacing the organization’s ability to absorb change and the Workforce Readiness team exists to close that gap by building and activating the capabilities required for the future of work at McKesson.

The Workforce Readiness team is seeking a Senior Manager of Workforce Readiness & Change to accelerate adoption, alignment, and engagement across the McKesson Technology Acceleration Program (MTAP). This leader will serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives and portfolio stakeholders, driving clear, consistent, and high-impact change strategies across one or more MTAP workstreams and AMO functions.

The ideal candidate brings strong business acumen, exceptional communication capabilities, and a proven ability to lead large-scale digital and organizational transformations within a complex, matrixed environment.

This role requires strategic thinking, disciplined execution, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to translate complex technical and organizational shifts into clear, actionable insights.

The Senior Manager, Workforce Readiness & Change 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 MT executives, AMO partners, 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 & Change Delivery

• 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+ years relevant experience.

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 communication style to work well with stakeholders at all levels, 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 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.

Compensation

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

$99,100 - $132,100

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