HRBP Director - Manufacturing (Boston, MA)

Role Summary

Director, HR Business Partner to support one or more sub-functions within the Biopharmaceutical Sciences & Manufacturing Organization (BSMO). You will be a visible HR leader, trusted advisor to senior leaders, shaping people and organization strategy to enable business outcomes and foster a high-performance, agile culture in a regulated manufacturing environment. This is a senior individual contributor role that leads through influence across a matrix, leveraging HR centers of excellence to deliver integrated solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary HR partner to one or more senior leaders for assigned BSMO sub-function(s); translate business strategy into a prioritized, integrated people and organization plan.
• Influence executive decision-making through options, risk/benefit tradeoffs, and data-backed recommendations linking talent levers to operational, quality, and cost outcomes.
• Lead organization design and evolution for growth, complexity, and scale; clarify interfaces and governance.
• Define and build critical capabilities; close skill gaps via build/buy/borrow strategies.
• Own the sub-function’s multi-year workforce plan aligned to strategy, capacity, budget, headcount, skills, pipeline, and location; ensure alignment with enterprise plans for BSMO and Vertex.
• Drive succession readiness for pivotal roles; develop diverse slates and growth plans for GMP operations and technical leadership.
• Elevate leadership performance; build management routines, coach through inflection points, and raise performance standards.
• Partner with Talent Management to deploy targeted programs (high-potential acceleration, career pathways, technical leadership tracks).
• Diagnose and shift culture in alignment with strategic culture roadmap; steward change for expansions, tech transfers, or pivots.
• Design and execute change plans across multi-site contexts with case for change, stakeholder maps, communications, and adoption metrics.
• Leverage data to illuminate trends and convert insights into narratives; measure impact and iterate.
• Orchestrate with Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, People Experience, Talent Management, and Strategic Analytics to deliver integrated solutions; ensure flawless execution of core cycles with equity and transparency.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and implementing HR strategies; expert-level in strategic workforce planning from conception to implementation.
• Highly experienced in talent management, succession planning, and career growth.
• Strong experience managing culture and change management or organizational effectiveness initiatives.
• Expertise in management development, employee relations, data/analytics, and diversity & inclusion.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in management, human resources, business, or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including HRBP leadership in a regulated manufacturing environment (biotech/pharma preferred).
• Demonstrated impact partnering with senior-level clients in complex, matrixed organizations; ability to lead without direct authority.
• Experience in organization design, strategic workforce planning, succession, and talent management; manufacturing populations preferred.
• Fluency with people data and financial/budget trade-offs; link talent decisions to operational, quality, safety, and cost outcomes.
• Change leadership and organizational effectiveness with measurable results in time-bound transformations.
• Experience across GMP manufacturing and technical development; partnering with site and network leaders; track record building capabilities at scale.
• Exposure to global or multi-site contexts; comfortable operating across time zones and cross-functional leadership teams.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in management, human resources, business, or related discipline.