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Lead, HCM M&A Portfolio & Delivery

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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 Summary

The Lead, HCM M&A Portfolio & Delivery is responsible for leading HCM technology activities across mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs from due diligence through implementation, Day 1 readiness, stabilization, and transition to ongoing operations.

This role serves as the primary HCM Technology lead for M&A initiatives, partnering across HR, Payroll, HCM Technology, Architecture, Security, enterprise technology teams, and external partners. The Lead brings structure to complex transactions, identifies technology implications and risks early, develops the HCM delivery approach, and drives execution through successful completion.

This is a senior individual-contributor role that leads through influence and matrixed teams, with no direct people-management responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

M&A Due Diligence & Planning

  • Lead HCM technology due diligence for acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs.
  • Assess impacts across core HCM, Workday, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Benefits, Talent, HR technologies, integrations, data, reporting, security, and downstream applications.
  • Identify technology risks, dependencies, integration complexity, TSA requirements, and potential business-continuity impacts.
  • Develop preliminary scope, ROM estimates, timelines, resource requirements, and delivery assumptions to support transaction planning and decisions.

HCM M&A Strategy & Delivery

  • Develop the HCM technology strategy, roadmap, and delivery approach for each transaction in partnership with the HCM Architect and Solution Managers.
  • Define Day 1, transitional, and target-state requirements across employee data, HCM platforms, payroll, integrations, access, and downstream systems.
  • Lead HCM technology delivery from transaction initiation through implementation and stabilization.
  • Maintain the integrated HCM delivery plan, including milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, resources, and financials.
  • Coordinate delivery across internal teams, implementation partners, vendors, and managed-service providers.
  • Drive decisions, resolve cross-functional dependencies, and escalate material risks with clear recommendations.
  • The existing HCM M&A delivery framework includes integrated planning, Day 1 readiness, TSA planning and exit, cutover, stabilization, testing, and operational readiness.

Day 1 Readiness & Stabilization

  • Drive HCM Day 1 readiness across data, integrations, payroll, security/access, testing, cutover, and operational support.
  • Lead readiness reviews and coordinate HCM technology cutover activities.
  • Ensure risks affecting employees, payroll, access, or continuity of HR services are identified and addressed.
  • Oversee post-close stabilization and transition to steady-state support.

Portfolio, Governance & Stakeholder Leadership

  • Maintain visibility to the M&A pipeline and associated HCM technology demand, capacity, and resource requirements.
  • Represent HCM Technology in cross-functional M&A planning and governance forums.
  • Provide concise executive-level reporting on scope, milestones, financials, readiness, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
  • Lead across matrixed teams through influence, providing clarity and accountability in complex and ambiguous environments.
  • Develop and continuously improve a repeatable HCM M&A playbook, including due-diligence assessments, estimation models, readiness criteria, delivery templates, and lessons learned.
  • The current HCM M&A model is designed around a scalable delivery capability and includes Workday HCM, Payroll and Time, Benefits and Absence, integrations, data conversion, and reporting.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Technology, Business, HR, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in HCM technology, enterprise applications, ERP, technology delivery, or related disciplines.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional technology programs through matrixed teams.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise HCM ecosystems, including Workday, Payroll, integrations, identity/security, and downstream applications.
  • Experience managing program scope, schedules, financials, risks, dependencies, testing, cutover, and operational readiness.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, and executive-communication capabilities.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently, navigate ambiguity, and influence across business and technology organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting M&A, divestitures, carve-outs, or post-merger integrations.
  • Experience with Workday, Payroll, workforce management, enterprise integrations, and SaaS platforms.
  • Experience with TSA planning and exit.
  • Experience working with systems integrators, managed-service providers, global teams, and offshore delivery organizations.
  • Success Measures
  • HCM risks and dependencies identified early during due diligence.
  • Timely and reliable HCM scope, ROM, resource, and timeline assessments.
  • Successful Day 1 readiness with minimal employee, payroll, or operational disruption.
  • Delivery against transaction milestones, scope, and financial commitments.
  • Early identification and resolution of cross-functional risks and dependencies.
  • Successful transition from implementation to stable ongoing operations.
  • Increased consistency and predictability through reusable HCM M&A standards and playbooks.

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. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$145,700 - $242,900

McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:

McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.

McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.

McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) [email protected] or (Canada) [email protected]. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.

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