Sr. Director, HR Enablement
Irving, TX - USA
Job Summary
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 tomorrows health today we want to hear from you.
About the Role
The Sr. Director NAPS HR Enablement provides leadership and oversight of the HR Enablement Specialist capability with direct accountability for a team of HR Enablement Specialists. This outcome focused leader delivers digitally forward consistent high-quality execution of HR programs workforce initiatives and transformation efforts across the NAPS HR Business Partner portfolio while aligning delivery to McKessons HR operating model and enterprise standards.
This role operates as a people leader with results achieved primarily through the leadership development and deployment of others. The Sr. Director is responsible for understanding the problem to be solved/opportunity to be realized and sets vision mobilizes resources and establishes operating norms to achieve results. This leader remains customer experience focused ensures scalability and sustainability of solutions and partners closely with HRBP leadership HR Shared Services and COEs to strengthen enterprise execution insight generation and adoption of HR products and processes.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Enablement Strategy & Direction
- Set and operationalize the enterprise strategy for HR Enablement translating HRBP priorities and enterprise HR objectives into clear delivery standards capability expectations and operating rhythms.
- Define what good looks like for HR Enablement execution across cyclical processes (e.g. Performance & Development compensation talent reviews workforce planning) transformations and business-specific initiatives.
- Ensure HR Enablement work reinforces enterprise consistency while allowing for limited intentional adaptation based on business context.
People Leadership & Capability Management
- Directly lead and develop a team of HR Enablement Specialists including talent selection onboarding coaching performance management and career development.
- Build a strong bench of enablement talent by reinforcing role clarity workload prioritization and skill progression aligned to the Career Framework.
- Establish coverage and deployment models to ensure continuity risk mitigation and capacity management across HRBP portfolios.
Operational Excellence & Governance
- Own the enablement operating model including intake prioritization ways of working escalation paths and handoffs across HRBPs HRSS and COEs.
- Ensure disciplined execution of work transitions within the enablement team to protect continuity reduce risk and support organizational changes.
- Monitor delivery quality timeliness and effectiveness; intervene when execution gaps role drift or duplication emerge.
Enterprise Partnership & Influence
- Partner closely with VP and SVP HR Business Partners to anticipate needs shape enablement support and ensure alignment to business priorities.
- Serve as a key connector across HRSS COEs HR Technology and Analytics teams to reinforce integrated delivery and reduce friction.
- Influence senior HR leaders by providing clear insights on workforce trends execution risks and enablement capacity trade-offs.
Data Insights & Digital Enablement
- Oversee the use of HR data analytics and reporting to ensure enablement teams move beyond data packaging to insight-driven recommendations.
- Promote disciplined use of HRIS (Workday) and emerging AI-enabled tools to improve scalability decision quality and efficiency.
- Use enterprise patterns and insights to inform improvements to HR programs tools and employee/manager experience.
Change Transformation & Risk Management
- Provide leadership oversight for enablement support of HR transformations restructures operating model changes and M&A activity.
- Ensure enablement teams anticipate interdependencies protect critical cycles and surface risks early to HRBP and enterprise stakeholders.
- Reinforce consistent change practices and product adoption approaches across portfolios.
Scope & Impact
- Provides leadership and direction across the HR Enablement function overseeing delivery and execution across multiple HRBP portfolios business units and enterprise HR workstreams.
- Accountable for enterprise consistency execution quality and operational effectiveness of the HR Enablement capability including team deployment capacity management and coverage across complex matrixed client groups.
- Establishes operating standards and norms that govern how enablement work is prioritized assigned and delivered in partnership with HRBP leadership HR Shared Services and COEs.
- Decisions impact the effectiveness of HR delivery talent processes leader experience and HRs credibility with senior business leaders.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Typically 13 years of progressive HR experience including significant people leadership experience in complex matrixed environments.
- Deep understanding of HR operating models HRBP execution shared services and COE integration.
- Proven experience leading teams through transformation ambiguity and enterprise change.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building and scaling enablement operations or program delivery teams.
- Strong data literacy including oversight of Workday reporting dashboards and workforce analytics.
- Experience leveraging digital and AI-enabled HR tools to improve execution and insight generation.
- Professional HR certification (e.g. SHRM-SCP SPHR).
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 McKessons 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 pleaseclick here.
Our Base Pay Range for this position
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McKesson is the leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies & equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology solutions. McKesson is the central nervous system of health care. At any given moment, in any given minute, we simultaneously execute thousands ... View more