Associate Director, HR Technology Partner

Position Overview

The HR IT Business Partner acts as the strategic people advisor to IT to ensure that people strategies, organizational effectiveness, and workforce plans directly enable the technology agenda.

Reporting into the HR Technology Strategy and Architecture Lead, the HR IT Business Partner will work closely with IT leaders, HR COEs and HR improvement teams to deliver talent, workforce, organizational design, and employee experience outcomes — enabling the IT function to meet current and future capability needs.

Reporting Relationships

Reporting to: HR Technology Strategy and Architecture Lead

Direct reports: 0

Works closely with: HR Leadership, HR Centers of Excellence, Finance, Risk, Senior Business Leaders and Business Managers

Main Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Provide strategic HR guidance to IT leaders on organizational priorities, workforce risks, culture, leadership capability, and people impacts of the technology strategy
• Act as a consulting partner to help shape the HR IT future‑skills roadmap, and functional transformation
• Provide change management support for technology transformation, digital programs, and system rollouts
• Collaborate with HR service design and improvement teams on persona design, experience mapping, continuous improvement, and program deployment
• Integrate technology insights and solutions from Talent, Reward, Culture & Leadership COEs
• Works with the business to ensure regulatory compliance is embedded into HR solutions
• Serves as primary liaison between HR IT and business functions to understand future needs
• Shape, govern and prioritize HR IT project pipeline to ensure technology initiatives deliver ROI
• Provides guidance on digital trends and opportunities to enhance competitive advantage
• Identify and evaluate new technologies to enhance business processes
  
  

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Degree related education in HR, Business, IT or a related field (Master’s degree or professional HR IT qualification preferred)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a HR IT or HR Business Partnering role within a global or matrixed organization
• Deep understanding of BioPharma HR technology trends and industry insights
• Experience in aligning future and existing IT technologies to business strategy
• Demonstrable strong business acumen and acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders
• Proficiency with HRIS and Microsoft Office suite
• Fluency in English; additional languages are advantageous
  
  

Key Competencies

• Ability to shape the HR IT employee experience
• Strong Functional HR knowledge, deep understanding of the HR processes within CSL and the policies that govern them
• Demonstrates the ability to build and sustain trusted, collaborative relationships across functions, regions, and levels of the organization
• Effectively partners with key stakeholders to understand priorities, align objectives, and co‑create solutions that drive shared outcomes
• Deep expertise in HR technology architecture, including systems, integrations, data models, and user experience frameworks
• Understanding of IT project management methodologies, frameworks and tools
• HR IT future investment budget management and allocation
• Ability to understand long-term IT business direction, anticipate capability needs to help shape future strategy
• Ability to support IT change initiatives to help the organization adopt new digital ways-of-working
• Strong ability to collaborate across multiple different and complex stakeholder groups
• Ability to align technology needs to the overall business strategy and influence senior decision makers
  
  

Location & Travel:

This is a global role with a requirement for periodic international travel to company sites and business meetings. The postholder should demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to operate effectively across time zones and cultures.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.

You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.