Senior Director, Enterprise Digital & Technology Business Partner - Human Resources

About the role

The Senior Director, Enterprise Digital Technology (EDT) Business Partner for Human Resources is a leadership role accountable for defining, operationalizing and governing the multi-year digital and technology strategy and roadmap across Human Resources.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a multi-year EDT strategy and roadmap aligned to functional and enterprise priorities.
• Jointly own the end-to-end function strategy with business functional leads to develop 1A customer journeys and roadmap.
• Create and articulate a clear, compelling vision from complex business needs.
• Build trusted executive relationships and serve as a strategic advisor and advocate for technology’s role in business success.
• Deliver measurable EDT value with strong business outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction.

Requirements

• Strategic Leadership and Vision: Set and continuously refine multi-year EDT strategy and roadmap for the function, ensuring alignment with functional priorities, global EDT standards, and future-state technology direction.
• Executive Engagement: Serve as the senior liaison between EDT and HR executive leadership, ensuring shared understanding of goals, priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
• Intake Management, Planning & Innovation: Lead the ideation and intake process for future-state portfolio planning, ensuring opportunities are clearly defined, evaluated, and aligned to function needs.
• Portfolio Governance, Value Management & Investment: Own the end-to-end business case lifecycle, including shaping opportunities, risk and financial validation, and value realization tracking.
• Leadership & Organizational Capability Building: Directly and indirectly lead and develop high-performing cross-functional teams ensuring strong collaboration and delivery accountability.

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years of experience in business, digital and/or technology strategy, and IT leadership, with extensive experience leading large-scale transformation.
• 6+ years leading high-performing teams in a matrixed, global environment.
• Technology roadmap and product development expertise, having managed multiple large-scale roadmapts or product portfolios in an agile or similar environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current and future technology direction of the industry and ability to align strategies with shifting landscapes.
• Deep knowledge of functional needs and products, as well as relevant technology journeys.
• Demonstrated success driving strategic technology portfolios and partnering with executive leadership, including C-suite leaders.
• Experience building mechanisms to ensure that architecture and harmonization principles are well socialized and followed in harmonizing portfolios.
• Experience helping a business to transform its business and systems (major project, big picture).
• Knowledge of regulated application landscape in life sciences and current platforms and technologies.

Physical & Mental Requirements

• Ability to operate in a global, matrixed technology organization with executive presence, resilience, and exceptional communication skills.
• Ability to convey a compelling vision and drive alignment across a range of audiences.
• Demonstrated experience inspiring teams through transformation and driving high-performance outcomes.

Benefits

• Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program.
• Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.