Human Resources Business Partner Senior Director, Commercial

About the role

We’re seeking a strategic and hands-on HR Business Partner Senior Director to support our growing commercial organization for our Cell, Gene, Therapy (CGT) & Cystic Fibrosis (CF) portfolio during an exciting period of expansion and innovation. This role will work in partnership with the CGT Vice President and their leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic HR leadership and expert guidance to assigned commercial client groups, along with consultation and delivery of HR programs and services to achieve key commercial objectives
• In deep partnership with the Lead HR Business Partner for Commercial US, work collaboratively with the other Business Unit HRBPs as to enable holistic strategics for business execution across the core commercial team, including Marketing, Sales for assigned BUs and identifying cross-functional needs in service of assigned BUs such as Field Operations, Access, Patient Services, etc.
• Leverages complex data and people analytics to provide critical insights into business and talent trends that inform the overall commercial and HR priorities
• Provides insights in a simple, creative, and relevant way that challenges current thinking, informs business decisions, and shows how decisions impact business outcomes
• Builds consensus and alignment around a topic and persuades others to act
• Proactively defines, builds and implements value-added HR strategies and solutions
• Advises senior commercial leaders in solving complex issues related to organization design, development, and change leadership
• Establishes strategies and tactics to enable the business to attract, develop, and retain high-quality talent at all levels to support the growth objectives, opportunities, and strategies of the business
• Leads the strategic workforce planning efforts to ensure the people and talent strategy is in alignment with the organization's long range strategic plan (identification of long-term capability needs, talent acquisition and succession planning)
• Buils deep and impactful partnerships with the HR specialist functions such as Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, People Experience, Talent Management and Strategic Analytics to provide HR solutions to key business needs and to roll out corporate-wide programs that enhance the overall employee experience and support growth and success of overall business strategy
• Partner with Talent Acquisition (TA) to ensure TA strategy is in place to deliver on key capability and workforce builds, with a specific focus on critical and board-approved hires
• Counsel and coach managers regarding performance management and effective leadership coaching
• Works in partnership with Director of Employee Relations to address gaps in performance and effective management of issues and concerns
• Lead Strategic Workforce Planning that includes identifying people and organizational implications of the business strategy, identifying key talent and driving accelerated development and succession plans
• Drive and support an open and inclusive culture that embraces individual difference
• Partner with HR organization to plan, develop and implement initiatives and programs in talent acquisition, leadership & employee development, compensation, benefits, HRIS, training and development to ensure client’s needs are understood and met by corporate- wide programs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• A minimum of 12 years of HRBP experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience, within a life sciences, biotech or pharmaceutical environment
• Proven experience as an HRBP in a Commercial or customer-facing organization, in biotech/pharma. Ideally experience in launching new medicines in the US market
• Expert-level experience developing strategic workforce plans, including capability development
• Strong experience managing and/or leading culture and change management or organizational effectiveness initiatives
• Expert experience developing and implementing global HR strategies with broad, corporate-wide impact
• Ability to use data as insights and influential storytelling to drive change and support business strategy
• Significant experience in organizational effectiveness, management development, employee relations, data and analytics, diversity and inclusion, and merger, acquisition and integrations

Qualifications

• Comfortable partnering with, and influencing decisions and outcomes with senior stakeholders from various parts of the organization
• Leadership presence and credibility to interact intelligently and collaboratively with all levels of employees, HR colleagues and stakeholders, including senior executives
• Strong business acumen
• Exceptional interpersonal, verbal/written communication skills, and attention to detail
• Strong problem solving/decision-making skill and sound judgment
• High energy influencer, capable of leading and managing across a wide variety of business areas and with different leadership styles
• Personal integrity and commitment to high moral standards and business ethics
• Shares Vertex’s mindset of change, improve, innovate