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. Director, Workforce Readiness Position Summary (Purpose of job): The Director, Workforce Readiness leads strategic change and workforce readiness efforts for technology-enabled initiatives that materially change how work is performed across McKesson. The role partners across corporate functions, technology teams, workforce intelligence, HR, and business stakeholders to help leaders understand how work is changing, anticipate workforce and organizational impacts, redesign work where appropriate, and prepare employees and leaders for current ways of working. The Director serves as a strategic change leader and trusted advisor to senior leaders, shaping workforce readiness, work redesign, talent mobility, capability development, and change approaches associated with AI, automation, digital platforms, process modernization, and other initiatives that materially change work. The role supports enterprise priorities including Workforce Readiness, Employee AI Enablement, workforce transformation, and future-of-work initiatives by translating technology-driven change into practical workforce actions and decision-ready insights.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Change Leadership & Workforce Readiness 40%




- Lead strategic change and workforce readiness efforts for complex technology-enabled initiatives that materially alter work, roles, processes, and operating models.
- Advise senior leaders on workforce implications, organizational risks, readiness priorities, and change interventions required to navigate changes in work successfully.
- Shape executive understanding of workforce and organizational impacts associated with business and technology investments.
- Develop integrated workforce readiness strategies that align leadership, stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, and sustainment activities to business outcomes.
- Guide leaders and teams through ambiguity, translating future-state decisions into practical actions for employees and the organization. Work Redesign & Workforce Evolution 25%
- Assess how AI, automation, digital platforms, process changes, and other technologies alter tasks, workflows, handoffs, decision rights, and role expectations.
- Partner across corporate functions and with technology, process, product, and business teams to define future-state work and identify opportunities to redesign work.
- Clarify which work should be automated, augmented, redesigned, or retained for human judgment based on business needs and intended outcomes.
- Translate future-state work into workforce, role, capability, organization, and change implications. Workforce Impact Planning & Talent Mobility 15%




- Evaluate workforce impacts resulting from technology-enabled changes to work.
- Translate changes in work into implications for skills, capacity, roles, hiring, talent movement, and learning.
- Identify career adjacencies and talent mobility pathways for employees whose capabilities overlap with emerging roles or priority needs.
- Partner across corporate functions with Talent, Learning, HR, workforce intelligence, and business stakeholders to develop practical workforce transition actions. Workforce Insights & Planning 10%
- Partner with workforce intelligence and leaders across corporate functions to identify future capability needs, workforce risks, and talent opportunities associated with changes in work.
- Contribute workforce impact assessments, scenarios, and readiness recommendations that support strategic workforce planning and business decisions.
- Use workforce data, business context, and employee insights to identify risks and recommend actions. Executive Advisory, Governance & Measurement 10%
- Prepare executive-ready insights, recommendations, and decision materials for leadership reviews, governance forums, and priority initiatives.
- Define and track workforce readiness, work redesign, change, and sustainment measures in partnership with program and business teams.
- Influence and align leaders across corporate functions, disciplines, and stakeholder groups to advance Workforce Readiness priorities and outcomes.
- Develop reusable frameworks, tools, and practices that strengthen strategic change leadership and Workforce Readiness across McKesson. Minimum Job Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities) Education/Training
- 4-year degree in change management, human resources

📌 Director Workforce Readiness (Canada)
🏢 McKesson
📍 Canada