Director, Talent Management Lead- R&D

Role Summary

The Director, Talent Management Lead, R&D is a strategic leader responsible for driving the organization's talent agenda to achieve impactful business outcomes. This role partners closely with HR Business Partners, the functional LT member and their Leadership team, and Centers of Excellence (CoE) to translate enterprise people strategy into actionable workforce and talent initiatives for the business. The Director serves as a proactive advisor, ensuring the organization is equipped with the workforce of the future, and is accountable for developing and executing integrated talent management strategies that foster growth, performance, engagement, and retention. The Head of Talent Management takes a holistic approach to the talent landscape, identifying, attracting, and nurturing our most critical talent to unlock their full potential and drive meaningful impact. By mitigating risk and minimizing business disruption, this role delivers purpose-driven, data-informed, and seamlessly integrated talent solutions that accelerate the realization of critical business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic partner to HRBP Leads and their Leadership Teams, translating the enterprise people strategy into a business-focused, integrated functional talent strategy and agenda.
• Integrate strategic workforce planning by identifying critical priorities and developing a forward-thinking talent strategy, including the identification of future workforce needs and digital capabilities and driving transformations.
• Partner with People Science, HRBPs, and CoEs to synthesize data from various sources (e.g., Talent Acquisition, employee surveys, organizational health, performance, people analytics) to drive focused efforts, communicate a cohesive talent narrative and monitor org talent health and impact.
• Partner with HRBPs and key Business Leaders to build the strategic talent agenda and talent rhythm and build their talent capability while executing against it. Hold regular functional talent review meetings that foster talent sharing across the business with appropriate follow-through to deliver on intended measurable outcomes.
• Provide a comprehensive view of critical talent pools from both internal and external perspectives, proactively managing talent movement and succession planning for LT, enterprise and functional critical roles and talent pools.
• Lead collaboration across Centers of Excellence across including both Talent & Inclusion and Talent Rewards, to support HRBPs in delivering end-to-end solutions for priority talent needs.
• Know the business and enterprise critical role talent and pipeline in the organization and enable their growth, performance, engagement and retention
• Manage multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously, ensuring flawless execution and alignment with business objectives.
• Benchmark externally to determine best in class approaches in support of our integrated talent strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR/IO psych, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading workforce, talent, and leadership strategy delivery and execution in a client aligned capacity (TM Lead or HRBP) - previous experience supporting R&D/Scientific Leaders preferred.
• Demonstrated excellence in communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all organizational levels.
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, address root cause of problems and drive outcome focused solutions.
• Deep understanding of the business and the critical roles that drive enterprise success, with the ability to enable talent growth and retention.
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation with the ability to simultaneously manage deadlines for a variety of initiatives against competing priorities.

Skills

• Strategic talent management
• Workforce planning
• Data analytics and interpretation
• Stakeholder management
• Change management
• Talent assessment and succession planning