Sr. HR Business Partner
Description
Our client is a highly attractive clinical-stage biotech company with a robust pipeline of first-in-class therapies spanning multiple stages of development. As the organization enters a pivotal phase of growth and expansion, this is an exciting opportunity to join a company that is rapidly scaling across the enterprise.
To support this next chapter, our client is seeking a strategic and dynamic HR Business Partner with a proven track record of driving organizational transformation and partnering closely with senior leadership in high-growth environments. The ideal candidate will bring the ability to influence at all levels, build inclusive and high-performing teams, and help establish the people strategies, processes, and infrastructure needed to enable long-term scale and success.
Given the fast-paced and evolving nature of a startup biotech environment, this role requires someone who is agile, solutions-oriented, and comfortable balancing immediate business needs with long-term organizational priorities. The successful candidate will thrive in ambiguity, remain composed under pressure, and embrace the unique opportunities and challenges that come with helping build a growing biotech company from the ground up.
Location
Princeton, New Jersey (Hybrid)
Features
ATTRACTIVE FEATURES ABOUT THIS COMPANY & OPPORTUNITY:
- Impact & Opportunity to Build/Shape: Being a small company at the doorstep of fast-and-furious growth lends itself to more visibility/exposure and opportunity to truly impact from day one and play an important role in supporting the company’s strategic growth/direction.
- Enjoy the Best of Both Worlds: Join a successful and financially stable company, while also getting all the pluses of working for a small fast-growing organization that is very much in scale-up/building mode and one of the most promising startups in the biotech industry.
- Vibrant Startup Culture: You will be joining at an exciting time and key inflection point in the company’s success journey.
- Tremendous Upside Potential: Leveraged by its unique technology, cutting-edge science and robust R&D pipeline (including multiple potentially transformative late-stage assets), this company is well-positioned for tremendous success and expansion.
- Highly Accomplished Executive Leadership: Work closely with an industry experienced and accomplished Senior Leadership team with a proven track record of success in this space.
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES IN A NUTSHELL:
- Serve as key influential partner for supporting various client groups and business area leaders and providing consultancy to key leaders and leadership teams with a focus on Workforce Planning, Talent Management and Change Management, Organization Design and Development.
- Build the workforce plan to increase the skills, engagement and productivity of the workforce to meet current and future business needs.
- Serve as an influential partner to COEs and HR Leadership team and externally to ensure that the most appropriate services and programs are developed and delivered to drive performance within the assigned groups.
- Understands and uses analytics to identify the business needs and priorities and the associated talent trends, challenges and opportunities.
- Provide expert advice and support for organization design and change management to business leaders.
- Influence the people strategy and articulate a meaningful strategy/message of the company’s business strategy for the client groups.
- Actively seeks to ensure alignment of the HR People Strategy and Business Strategy.
- Identify and analyze issues and opportunities which are within established policies and procedures and engages stakeholders to gain alignment and endorsement of solutions.
Qualifications / Requirements
DESIRED EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree is required. Advanced degree in an HR-related discipline is preferred.
- 10+ years of relevant HRBP experience (at a biotech company) working in areas such as strategic workforce planning, organizational design/transformation, succession planning, performance/talent management, people strategy, etc.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, startup/entrepreneurial type of environment, to be self-motivated, and to communicate effectively with leadership on-site and internally.
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