Head of HR, Innovative Medicine - Neuroscience R&D

Role Summary

Head of HR, Innovative Medicine Neuroscience R&D based in Titusville, NJ, Spring House, PA, or Raritan, NJ. As a Business Unit Head Of HR, you will provide strategic HR partnership to the Neuroscience R&D leadership and the overall Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, contributing to shape business strategy and drive aligned outcomes in these focus areas.

Responsibilities

• Leverage internal and external insights to diagnose and design organizations optimized to achieve strategic goals
• Design and deploy data-driven talent strategies that curate the talent and capabilities required to deliver
• Shape and steward our culture and employee experiences that will attract, inspire, and retain top talent
• Accelerate performance through leadership coaching and team effectiveness
• Partner across our OneHR model to deliver on talent and organizational strategies
• Fluent in key business strategies (even outside of people topics), as well as external market competitive landscape
• Support A&D activity (e.g., due diligence, integration)
• Lead organizational design efforts to position business for the future
• Execute significant organizational design efforts, inclusive of legal reviews, preparing managers to lead notifications, developing and executing notification/exit plans
• Guide and support development of change plan to prepare organization to return to fully functioning state with maximized effectiveness (post-notification); diagnose and design solutions for post–org design execution
• Understand what the business needs (through diagnosis, analysis, data), including organizational health, and what the function must bring to meet those needs, leveraging the breadth of the OneHR model
• Partner with the business on how to ensure organization is optimally set up to deliver on business strategy inclusive of annual business planning and long-range financial planning (e.g., workforce planning)
• Execute workforce planning efforts (including assessment of org, followed by assessment of talent) in alignment with overall business strategy to ensure business appropriately resourced to deliver commitments (e.g., product launch)
• Support career planning and pathing efforts as part of overall talent strategy
• Partner with the business to develop and/or refresh relevant competency frameworks
• Lead talent planning exercises deeper within organization, focused on critical capabilities
• Consult with ER/LR on local strategy; conduct consultations with works councils
• Consult with business on future talent needs to ensure market competitiveness
• Advise to business Credo Action/Engagement Teams as well as EBRGs
• Identify, define, and help build key mindsets/behaviors for the business in partnership with business leaders
• Drive culture of Our Credo, growth, collaboration, and inclusion within teams
• Develop trusted partnerships and coaching relationships with leaders and teams to build leadership capabilities and enhance leader impact
• Coach leaders on employee performance, stakeholder interactions, and team effectiveness
• Ensure meaningful engagement, development, energy, and effective performance of team
• Identify and diagnose talent needs of the business through strong business and analytical acumen and effective analysis
• Create and deploy talent strategy to attract, develop, reward, and retain talent, including robust succession-planned pipeline and critical capability building
• Own and drive talent management for the IM R&D organization; set and action priorities, develop talent talk rhythm aligned to global calendar; inclusive of alignment on talent pools and measurement of progress via talent metrics (e.g., retention, movement)
• Lead succession planning for EC/GOC critical business/function roles, as appropriate; assess pipeline strength and develop plans to strengthen as needed

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ professional experience, including managerial experience coaching and leading talent; minimum of 5 years of progressive HR or HR-related experience required
• This position will be located in Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, or Spring House, PA and require 15% travel
• People management experience preferred

Skills

• Business Alignment
• Coaching
• Consulting
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Employee Relationships
• Employee Retention
• HR Business Partnership
• HR Strategic Management
• HR Trends
• Human Resources Consulting
• Human Resources Law
• Interpersonal Influence
• Mentorship
• Organizational Change Management
• Problem Solving
• Succession Planning
• Tactical Planning
• Talent Management
• Technical Credibility

Additional Requirements

• 15% travel