Sr. Manager, Change Leadership

McKesson•Irving, TX

About The Position

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. McKesson Technology is seeking a Senior Manager of Change Leadership 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, Change Leadership 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.

Requirements

8+ years relevant experience
Business mindset : able to understand the business and financial conditions, link HR and business strategy, and identify ways to improve business performance
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 his/her 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
4-year degree in change management, human resources, psychology, business or related field or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Organizational Development/Design/Effectiveness/Operating Model experience preferred
Change management experience
Experience in a large, complex, matrixed organization preferred
Expertise in Microsoft office (PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel)
master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

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.
Change Management 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 escalate 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.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Work within a matrixed environment, partnering with Change, HR, Technology, Communications, and Portfolio teams.
Collaborate across all MTAP portfolios to ensure messaging coherence, integrated decision-making, and shared understanding of program impacts.
This role will also support organization design, process design, and other workforce transformation or transition activities required to successfully achieve the desired project or program outcomes.