Senior Director, AI-First Modernization & Strategy

McKesson; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director of the Business Modernization Office to lead enterprise execution of an AI-first governance and operating model. The role partners with the VP to implement standardized execution, portfolio visibility, and value realization across AIM28 initiatives.

You will work across business, technology, modernization and change teams to deliver measurable outcomes aligned with AOP commitments.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the overall operating rhythm and cadence for AIM28, including governance forums, stage gates, decision pathways, escalation routines, and execution discipline.
• Design, develop, and launch tools and operating mechanisms that enable an AI-first modernization approach across business units, finance, technology, modernization, and change functions.
• Lead prioritization and escalation processes by assessing interdependencies, delivery performance, business value, resource constraints, and risk exposure.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled governance, workflow, reporting, and decision-support capabilities that improve visibility, accountability, and speed of execution.
• Create sustained accountability for business outcomes by connecting modernization work to measurable value, operational performance, and AOP commitments; owns operationalizing AIM28 Incentive Award program
• Establish value realization methodologies, benefits tracking standards, and reporting routines in partnership with FP&A to create a trusted single source of truth
• Implement, socialize, and scale Planview or related portfolio management tools to improve transparency, investment governance, prioritization, and benefits tracking
• Shape prioritization, funding, and investment recommendations by synthesizing portfolio health, business value, readiness, risks, dependencies, and expected impact
• Provide senior and executive leaders with clear, consistent, and actionable views of portfolio health, progress, risks, trade-offs, and expected impact against AOP commitments
• Develop executive-ready narratives and decision materials that enable timely action, resource alignment, and disciplined execution across AIM28 modernization priorities
• Advance an AI-first modernization operating model by embedding process redesign, automation, governance, change adoption, and measurable business outcomes into standard ways of working
• Operationalize practical, scalable, and sustainable solutions that can be consistently adopted across functions and maintained over time
• Identify external market trends and emerging practices in AI-enabled transformation, digital operations, portfolio governance, and value realization; translate those insights into relevant McKesson operating practices
• Build organizational capability by creating repeatable frameworks, playbooks, routines, and enablement materials that help teams execute modernization work with clarity and discipline
• Influence senior stakeholders across business, finance, technology, modernization, and change functions to drive adoption of governance and operating model changes
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders by bringing structure to ambiguity, surfacing risks and trade-offs, and aligning stakeholders around strategic modernization priorities
• Connect AIM28 work to broader NAPS priorities and Big Bet outcomes, ensuring modernization efforts are sequenced, governed, and communicated in a way that supports enterprise execution
• Establish and own the future-state RAIB operating model, with a focus on consistency, scalability, automation, risk mitigation, and sustainable adoption
• Operationalize and drive enterprise adoption of responsible AI governance r

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director of the Business Modernization Office to lead enterprise execution of an AI-first governance and operating model. The role partners with the VP to implement standardized execution, portfolio visibility, and value realization across AIM28 initiatives.

You will work across business, technology, modernization and change teams to deliver measurable outcomes aligned with AOP commitments.