Performance & Succession Lead

McKesson • Irving, TX

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About The Position

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. Role Purpose The Performance & Succession Lead designs and drives McKesson’s enterprise performance lifecycle, executive integration and succession planning strategy. This role enables all employees and leaders to grow and deliver impact through continuous coaching, goal clarity, feedback, and talent insights—while shaping talent identification and succession strategies to build the capabilities of the future.

Requirements

• 13+ years of progressive HR, Talent, Leadership Development, or Organizational Development experience, including ownership of enterprise level performance or succession programs.
• Experience conducting research, benchmarking, or analysis related to performance science, coaching practices, leadership readiness, or succession.
• Demonstrated experience redesigning or transforming performance and potential frameworks in large, matrixed environments.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders, HRBPs, and cross functional teams to shape talent decisions, readiness expectations, performance norms, and leadership standards.
• Proficiency with HR technology ecosystems, including performance systems, succession tools, and data platforms (Workday experience preferred).
• Strong communication and storytelling skills—able to translate strategy, frameworks, and insights into simple, actionable guidance for leaders.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with behavioral science, leadership science, coaching psychology, or adult learning theory to inform program design.
• Experience with AI enabled tools, such as digital coaching platforms, intelligent performance prompts, readiness analytics, or predictive talent modeling.
• Background in designing executive assimilation or executive onboarding frameworks for senior leadership populations.
• Exposure to capability modeling or leadership competency frameworks, ideally contributing to enterprise level integration across talent processes.
• Experience applying data science or people analytics insights to elevate succession decisions and performance quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation of performance, coaching, development, executive onboarding and succession—advancing future capabilities, readiness models, and critical‑role succession aligned with our culture evolution.
• Conduct research, market scans and benchmarking to identify emerging practices in performance enablement, coaching models, integration, and succession science to shape bold recommendations that continuously evolve our frameworks and programs.
• Build simplified, scalable programs for performance, executive integration and succession, including principles, rhythms, decision flows, and data strategy.
• Integrate digital tools and AI-driven insights to elevate leader capability, performance quality, and succession decisions.
• Create practical AI coaching tools, playbooks, and guidance that builds a coaching and feedback culture – enabling a ‘leaders and coaches’ model.
• Evaluate new technologies, AI solutions, and methodologies that could modernize performance, coaching, or succession workflows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed