Talent Advisor

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.

As a Talent Advisor, you’ll partner with hiring managers and HR leaders to attract, assess and hire talent across the organization. You’ll manage the full recruiting lifecycle, combining sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, recruitment marketing and consultative talent acquisition to deliver strong candidate slates and a positive hiring experience.

You’ll work closely with hiring managers to understand hiring needs, forecasts and candidate profiles, then develop and execute recruiting strategies to identify and engage qualified talent.

What You’ll Do

• Manage full-cycle recruiting across a portfolio of 25+ open positions with competing hiring priorities across a dynamic requisition portfolio, adjusting recruiting activity based on business need, hiring urgency and talent availability.
• Partner with hiring managers and HR partners to understand workforce needs, hiring priorities and candidate requirements.
• Lead intake and recruiting strategy discussions with hiring managers, aligning on role requirements, talent profile, sourcing strategy, interview approach, market conditions and realistic hiring expectations.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for recurring and difficult-to-fill talent needs, using market intelligence and anticipated business demand to identify talent before positions open.
• Maintain accurate and timely recruiting activity, candidate disposition and requisition data in the applicant tracking system to support compliance, reporting and reliable business insights.
• Develop and execute targeted sourcing and recruitment strategies to attract qualified candidates.
• Evaluate candidates through resume review, screening, interviewing and assessment against role requirements.
• Build and present qualified candidate slates to hiring managers.
• Coach hiring managers on effective, fair and consistent interviewing and selection practices.
• Use recruiting metrics and analytics to identify trends, assess recruiting effectiveness and provide business insights.
• Keep the hiring process moving with urgency, clarity and a strong focus on service levels and candidate experience.
• Bring a digital-first mindset, using AI, automation and the latest recruiting technology to improve sourcing, outreach, candidate engagement and hiring manager insight.
• Turn local market insight into practical hiring advice, including talent availability, competitor activity, compensation trends and candidate expectations.
• Support and promote employee referral initiatives.
• Partner with hiring managers and compensation partners to develop competitive offer recommendations, manage candidate expectations, anticipate potential barriers and support successful offer acceptance.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and/or 4+ years’ full lifecycle recruiting experience in a corporate environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing full-cycle recruiting, including candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection and offer support.
• Strong consultative and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, appropriately challenge and guide hiring managers using talent-market data, recruiting expertise and business priorities.
• Knowledge of employment law and corporate recruitment practices.

Preferred Skills/Experience (Nice to Haves):

• Experience using recruiting metrics and analytics to evaluate recruiting effectiveness and inform decisions.
• Direct sourcing skills, including Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, pipeline building, referral generation and outreach to passive candidates.
• Confidence using AI, automation and recruiting technology to improve sourcing, screening, candidate communication and workflow efficiency.
• Experience with behavioral or competency-based interviewing and candidate assessment techniques.
• Ability to manage fast-paced, high-volume recruitment activity while staying organized, responsive and focused on quality.
• Experience with Operations/Distribution hiring or similar work

Work Environment

• This role follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation to work on-site at our Las Colinas, Alpharetta, or Columbus office three days per month, during the same designated week.

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

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.

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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.

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