Vice President, Human Resources

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Operations Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Development and Chief Medical Officer and their leadership teams to align people strategy with business objectives.
• Translate enterprise strategy into multi-year workforce, leadership, and organizational plans.
• Serve as an active member of the HRLT, contributing to enterprise-wide HR priorities and initiatives.
• Provide executive coaching and counsel to senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, development, talent acquisition, workforce planning, organization design and transformation.
• Lead global workforce planning across manufacturing networks, supply chain operations, quality organizations, and R&D functions.
• Develop long-term strategies addressing automation, digital transformation, regulatory evolution, and pipeline growth.
• Partner with Talent COE to build critical leadership, operations, technical and scientific capabilities (e.g., biologics manufacturing, regulatory science, AI-enabled R&D).
• Ensure robust location and capacity planning aligned with global expansion and product lifecycle strategy.
• Execute comprehensive recruitment strategies to address and fulfill the organization’s staffing and resource requirements.
• Own succession planning and talent reviews for critical global roles.
• Strengthen diverse leadership pipelines across operations and R&D.
• Drive leadership assessment, development, and executive readiness planning.
• Ensure board-ready talent insights for enterprise leadership discussions.
• Advise and coach organizational leaders on key human resources priorities and emerging people needs.
• Lead and develop a global team of senior HR leaders supporting sites and functions.
• Drive capability building within the HRBP team, including business acumen, analytics, and strategic consulting skills.
• Ensure effective collaboration with HR Centers of Excellence (Talent, Total Rewards & HR Operations).
• Model enterprise mindset and high-performance leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, graduate degree preferred, in human resources or related field.
• 15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including global senior executive-level partnership.
• Significant experience supporting global manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and/or R&D organizations.
• Experience within a regulated life sciences environment (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device).
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale organizational transformation.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed HR teams.