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. Provide strategic HR partnership to the Neuroscience R&D leadership and the overall Neuroscience Therapeutic Area, shaping business strategy and driving 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 culture and employee experiences to attract, inspire, and retain top talent
• Accelerate performance through leadership coaching and team effectiveness
• Partner across the OneHR model to deliver on talent and organizational strategies

Core Responsibilities

• Business strategy: 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, including legal reviews, preparing managers to lead notifications, developing and executing notification/exit plans
• Guide and support development of change plans to prepare the organization to return to fully functioning state with maximized effectiveness (post-notification); diagnose and design solutions for post–org design execution
• Understand business needs through diagnosis, analysis, and 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 ensuring the organization is optimally set up to deliver on business strategy, including annual business planning and long-range financial planning (e.g., workforce planning)

Talent strategy and management

• Execute workforce planning efforts (including assessment of org, followed by assessment of talent) in alignment with overall business strategy to ensure resources for 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 the 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

Culture and engagement

• Advise Credo Action/Engagement Teams as well as ERGs
• Identify, define, and help build key mindsets/behaviors for the business in partnership with business leaders
• Drive culture of Credo, growth, collaboration, and inclusion within teams

Leadership coaching and effectiveness

• Develop trusted partnerships and coaching relationships with leaders and teams to build leadership capabilities and enhance impact
• Coach leaders on employee performance, stakeholder interactions, and team effectiveness
• Ensure meaningful engagement, development, energy, and effective performance of team

R&D Talent Agenda

• 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; including 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

• 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