Senior Manager, Change Management & Transformation

McKesson Corporation
United States, Tennessee, Nashville
Apr 11, 2026
It's More Than a Career, It's a Mission. Our people are the foundation of our success. By joining our growing team at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI), a subsidiary of McKesson, you will have the opportunity to become part of one of the largest community-based cancer programs to advance oncology treatments and improve outcomes for cancer patients across the globe. We look for mission-driven candidates who have a desire to advance the fight against cancer and make a difference in the lives of patients diagnosed with cancer every day. Our Mission People who live with cancer - those who work to prevent it, fight it, and survive it - are at the heart of every decision we make. Bringing the most innovative medical minds together with the most passionate caregivers in their communities, we are transforming care and personalizing treatment. Through clinical excellence and cutting-edge research, SCRI is redefining cancer care around the world. The Senior Manager, Change Management & Transformation is responsible for designing, leading, and operationalizing enterprise-wide change initiatives at SCRI. This role serves as a senior change leader, partnering closely with executive sponsors, operational leaders, and transformation teams to ensure strategic initiatives are successfully adopted, sustained, and embedded into how the organization works. This role leads and coaches a team of change managers providing strategic oversight across large-scale, complex initiatives with significant people and organizational impact. The Senior Manager applies structured change management methodologies, advanced stakeholder engagement techniques, and data-driven adoption strategies to improve business outcomes, employee experience, and organizational readiness. Success in this role requires deep expertise in change management, strong influencing skills, and the ability to lead across a highly matrixed clinical and research environment. Duties include but are not limited to: Lead the change strategy for high-impact, enterprise-wide initiatives, ensuring alignment to SCRI's strategic priorities and operating model. Serve as the primary change advisor to executive sponsors and senior leaders, guiding them through complex organizational, behavioral, and cultural change. Design and oversee comprehensive change management plans, including stakeholder analysis, impact assessments, communication strategies, training approaches, readiness measures, and sustainment plans. Ensure change strategies are proactively integrated into project and program delivery-not treated as downstream activities. Build strong, trust-based partnerships with senior leaders, enabling them to visibly and effectively sponsor change. Set enterprise direction for change communications across strategic initiatives and organizational transformations, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with SCRI priorities. Own the communication strategy for complex programs and organizational changes, including executive messaging, enterprise updates, and readiness communications. Advise and partner with executive sponsors and senior leaders on messaging, sequencing, and escalation related to highimpact change initiatives. Ensure timely escalation of material risks, adoption challenges, and change impacts to internal leadership and external partners, enabling informed decisionmaking. Provide governance and oversight for change communications delivered by program teams, ensuring quality, consistency, and effectiveness across the portfolio. Align internal and external partner communications to support successful delivery, adoption, and sustainment of enterprise initiatives. Establish mechanisms to assess message effectiveness and stakeholder sentiment, using insights to refine communication strategies and reinforce adoption. Prepare leaders to lead change through targeted coaching, messaging, and engagement strategies. Directly manage and mentor Program Managers and Change Managers, setting clear expectations for change excellence. Build enterprise change capability by coaching teams, introducing standardized change frameworks, tools, and best practices, and fostering a culture of adoption-focused delivery. Partner with the Director of Strategy & Transformation to support prioritization and sequencing of initiatives from a change capacity and readiness perspective. Maintain awareness of cumulative change impacts across the organization and recommend mitigation strategies to reduce change fatigue and risk. Define and track adoption, readiness, and sustainment metrics to assess change effectiveness and inform course corrections. Ensure implemented changes are reinforced through governance, performance measures, and operational ownership postimplementation. Identify opportunities to improve SCRI's change management maturity, tools, and governance. Propose and implement enhancements that improve how the organization absorbs and sustains change over time. Mandatory: The following are mandatory expectations of all SCRI employees. Practices and adheres to the "Code of Conduct" philosophy and "Mission and Value Statement." During your employment with SCRI, you will be routinely assigned training requirements. You are expected to complete any training assignments by the due date. Knowledge: A body of information needed to perform tasks; May be obtained through education, training or experience. Change management and project management techniques and tools Knowledgeable and experienced in the research environment and healthcare processes. Strong working relationship with leadership which allows for quick problem resolution and staff support. Experience leading enterprise wide strategic initiatives with large change impacts. Skills: The proficiency to perform a certain task. Senior-level facilitation, influencing, and executive communication skills Stakeholder engagement and conflict navigation across diverse audiences Coaching and people leadership skills, including developing change practitioners Data-informed decision-making using adoption and readiness metrics Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complexity into clear, compelling messages Abilities: An underlying, enduring trait useful for performing duties. Ability to quickly establish credibility with executives and frontline leaders Ability to lead through ambiguity and resistance while maintaining alignment and momentum Ability to balance multiple concurrent changes and advise on organizational change capacity Comfort challenging assumptions and raising risks constructively at all levels Ability to operate effectively within a highly matrixed organization Minimum Qualifications: Master's Degree required 7+ years of experience in program management 2+ years of experience in people management Experience leading enterprisewide strategic initiatives with significant organizational change impacts Prosci Change Management Certification or equivalent required Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt highly preferred This role is hybrid in Nashville, TN. About Sarah Cannon Research Institute Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI) is one of the world's leading oncology research organizations conducting community-based clinical trials. Focused on advancing therapies for patients over the last three decades, SCRI is a leader in drug development. In 2022, SCRI formed a joint venture with former US Oncology Research to expand clinical trial access across the country. It has conducted more than 850 first-in-human clinical trials since its inception and contributed to pivotal research that has led to the majority of new cancer therapies approved by the FDA in the past decade. SCRI's research network brings together more than 1,300 physicians who are enrolling patients into clinical trials at more than 200 locations in 20+ states across the U.S. Please click here to learn more about our research offerings. We care about the well-being of the patients and communities we serve, and that starts with caring for our people. That's why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. 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