Sr. Director, Executive Development
McKessonAbout the role
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.
The Executive & High Potential Development team creates development experiences and programming for the Top 135 executive leaders, Top 600 senior leaders and high potential leaders, focusing on their ability to demonstrate enterprise behaviors, disciplines and skills / capabilities to execute the strategy and playbook.
The Senior Director, Executive & High Potential Development will report into the Vice President, Talent Management and play a key role in the planning, design, communication and execution of executive development programs and initiatives. This role is a critical component in shaping a healthy, high-performance culture of our most senior leaders. This includes leading efforts for leadership calls, development webinars, the bi-annual Senior Leaders Meeting, and additional initiatives. This role is responsible for stakeholder managements of various internal and external partners including the Executive Operating Team (EOT), Human Resources Leadership Team (HRLT) BU/Fx Leadership, HR COEs, Senior HR Business Partners, Internal Communications, Event Services, Executive Admins, and outside vendors. The incumbent will leverage contemporary methodologies to accelerate achieving McKesson business priorities and demonstration of our leadership behaviors and capabilities by providing seamless programming to support the organization. This role is responsible for leading existing programs and creating new solutions that will fit within the context of the organization’s current capabilities and programs. Additionally, this role will be responsible for designing, developing and delivering our four High Potential Leadership Programs.
Key Responsibilities:
Apply expert knowledge of Executive Development to diagnose needs and define solutions that meet unique business requirements
Brings leading practices, emerging trends, vendor selection methodology, performance benchmarking analysis, and other activities to achieve clear and consistent strategic alignment to McKesson initiatives
Facilitation and presenting to executive leaders across the Organization.
Engages with HR Business Partners, HR COEs and business leaders to understand requirements, organizational goals, and expected skills and behaviors of McKesson leaders (ILEAD leadership values) and creates capability programs to build the necessary skills and capabilities to execute the strategy.
Defines and measures success metrics using qualitative and quantitative methods to monitor change progress and assesses the change impact(s) in achieving shared leadership culture.
Occasionally responsible for coaching McKesson executives in their roles as a team member, facilitator, etc.
Identifies solutions to barriers/risks/concerns to successful implementation along with COE partners as needed.
Work closely with McKesson’s talent assessment and learning & development teams to ensure continuity as it relates to executive alignment requirements and cascading executive content throughout the organization
Liaise with HR Business Partners and leadership to manage expectations and communicate plans.
Designs, delivers, and/or supports team and capability building programs for EOT members, independently or with vendors.
Designs, develops and delivers our four high potential programs for employees and leaders at various levels throughout the organization.
Leads a team of 2-3 HR employees to develop and lead the aforementioned responsibilities.
Minimum Requirements
10+ years organizational development/human resources or related work experience
Critical Skills
10+ years of experience in areas such as talent management, selection and assessment, executive assessment, human resources technology, corporate training, instructional design, and digital learning.
10+ years in either Executive Development OR HRBP Leadership/-Learning space
Executive program development, design and execution experience
Global experience
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