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McKesson

Supplies medicines and technology to healthcare teams

Vice President, HR Support Center & Operations

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/14/2026Deadline 10/22/26
$174.6k - $291k+ Annual bonus + Long-term incentive opportunities
Expert
Bachelor's
Montreal, QC, Canada+1 moreMore locations: Mississauga, ON, Canada
HybridHybrid role; 10–20% travel required.
People & HRHR Operations & Coordination

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 15 years of progressive experience in operations, contact centers, shared services, employee services, HR operations, business operations, or a related discipline.
  • At least 8 years of senior leadership experience with accountability for leaders, large or complex teams, service delivery, planning, communication, and organizational performance.
  • Demonstrated experience leading operations and/or a contact center environment, including high-volume, multi-channel service delivery.
  • Proven success leading geographically distributed teams through managers and senior leaders in a large, matrixed organization.
  • Ability to establish enterprise operating models, service standards, governance, performance measures, workforce plans, budgets, and resource strategies.
  • Experience defining and delivering complex transformation, automation, technology, or process-optimization initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
  • Strong understanding of operational risk, controls, privacy, data stewardship, compliance, and business continuity, with sound judgment about when to engage specialized experts.
  • Ability to use operational data, service insights, employee feedback, and cost-benefit analysis to shape priorities and improve organizational performance.
  • Executive-level communication, influence, and change-leadership skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to travel 10–20% of the time.
Responsibilities
  • Establish and execute a multi-year global strategy for the HR Support Center and Workforce Administration organization, aligned with enterprise HR priorities and business objectives.
  • Design an integrated operating model that clarifies global, regional, and local responsibilities, decision rights, service boundaries, escalation paths, and accountability.
  • Set the vision for a scalable, employee-centered service organization that balances experience, quality, speed, risk, cost, and global consistency.
  • Translate enterprise HR strategy, workforce needs, and service insights into prioritized operating plans, capability investments, and measurable outcomes.
  • Advise senior HR and business leaders on service trends, operational risks, capacity, organizational capability, and investment needs.
  • Lead reliable, accurate, timely, and consistent delivery across the global HR support contact center and Workforce Administration teams.
  • Establish common service standards, operating rhythms, performance measures, quality practices, and escalation mechanisms across geographies.
  • Use demand, case, contact, transaction, quality, productivity, employee experience, and cost data to improve performance and guide decisions.
  • Strengthen workforce management, capacity planning, knowledge management, quality assurance, and leader routines to meet changing demand.
  • Reduce fragmentation, improve handoffs, resolve recurring service defects, and optimize the end-to-end employee and leader experience.
  • Balance enterprise consistency with legal, regulatory, language, workforce, and business requirements across supported markets.
  • Define and sponsor the technology and automation vision for HR operations, creating a durable foundation for future service delivery.
  • Build and maintain a sequenced transformation roadmap spanning process redesign, workflow automation, AI-enabled capabilities, knowledge, analytics, self-service, case management, and contact-center technologies.
  • Partner with HR Technology, Digital, Data, Security, and enterprise teams to convert operational opportunities into scalable solutions and disciplined implementation plans.
  • Identify high-value opportunities to eliminate unnecessary manual work, simplify complex processes, consolidate fragmented activity, and improve straight-through processing.
  • Establish governance, controls, testing, adoption measures, and benefits realization for automation and technology investments.
  • Create a continuous-improvement system that equips leaders and teams to identify root causes, test solutions, scale proven practices, and sustain results.
  • Establish portfolio-level governance, policies, controls, documentation standards, and performance expectations that support consistent execution and responsible risk management.
  • Maintain executive visibility into material service risks, control issues, recurring defects, employee impacts, and remediation plans.
  • Partner with Legal, Cyber Security, Payroll, HR Centers of Excellence, Audit, and other experts to identify and mitigate operational, regulatory, financial, data, and employee-experience risks.
  • Ensure sensitive or complex matters are routed to appropriate experts and escalated for leadership decisions when required.
  • Drive clear ownership for process controls, issue resolution, business continuity, and operational resilience.
  • Lead, inspire, coach, and develop a geographically distributed organization through senior leaders, managers, and subject-matter experts.
  • Create an inclusive, high-performing culture grounded in care, accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, customer orientation, and operational excellence.
  • Build leadership capability, organizational depth, succession readiness, and critical skills for a more digital and automated operating environment.
  • Establish clear expectations and empower leaders to make decisions, remove barriers, and own outcomes.
  • Assess organizational structure, roles, skills, spans, capacity, location strategy, and resource deployment as business and technology needs evolve.
  • Lead teams through significant operating-model, process, and technology change with transparent communication and disciplined change leadership.
  • Translate complex operational themes, service insights, risks, and investment choices into clear, decision-ready recommendations for executives.
  • Influence enterprise priorities and solutions across a highly matrixed environment where direct authority may not exist.
  • Represent HR support and operations requirements in enterprise planning, technology, transformation, and governance forums.
  • Build productive partnerships with HR Centers of Excellence and HR Business Partners to improve policy-to-process translation and service readiness.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives requiring alignment across multiple HR disciplines, geographies, and stakeholder groups.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with contact-center platforms, case management, knowledge management, workforce management, digital self-service, workflow, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled service capabilities.
  • Experience managing outsourced services, vendor-supported operations, or strategic third-party relationships.
  • Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, process excellence, service management, or change-management methodologies.

About the company

McKesson distributes medicines and medical supplies to pharmacies, hospitals and other care providers, alongside services that connect drug manufacturers with patients. Its specialty businesses support community cancer care and clinical research, extending its work beyond moving products through warehouses. The company buys drugs and supplies from manufacturers for resale, while its software helps pharmacies manage inventory and healthcare teams secure insurance approval for prescriptions. It also sells practice management and patient support services to clinicians and drugmakers. McKesson traces its business roots to 1833 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Irving, Texas

Founded

1833

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What believers are saying

  • Reinvestment has cash behind it: McKesson reported $6.2 billion operating cash flow for fiscal 2026 in May 2026.
  • Specialty expansion drives growth: McKesson reported 31% higher fiscal 2026 Oncology and Multispecialty sales in May 2026.
  • Technical candidates have openings: McKesson lists 154 information technology jobs on its career site in October 2026.

What critics are saying

  • One customer holds bargaining power: CVS generated 24% of McKesson's fiscal 2026 revenue, reported in May 2026.
  • Technology jobs face cuts: McKesson approved prescription technology headcount reductions during January through March 2026.
  • Medical supply careers face separation: McKesson outlined a planned Medical-Surgical IPO alongside Apollo's investment agreement in April 2026.

What makes McKesson unique

  • McKesson backs independent ownership: its Health Mart franchise supports pharmacies that remain independently owned and operated.
  • Generic purchasing has a retail partner: McKesson and Walmart jointly source medicines through ClarusONE.
  • McKesson reaches prescribing workflows: CoverMyMeds processes insurance approval requests free for clinicians across all plans and medications.

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Benefits

  • Performance Bonus
  • 401(k) Company Match

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