Director, Talent Partner, Operations

Position Overview

The Director, Talent Partner is a pivotal strategic HR leadership role responsible for shaping and delivering enterprise-aligned talent strategies within the Operations, Plasma, Commercial, Enabling Functions & R&D or Seqirus. Serving as the principal talent advisor to senior leadership, this role ensures that workforce, leadership, and culture priorities directly enable business performance, transformation, and long-term growth.

Each Talent Partner reports directly to the Vice President/Executive Director, Human Resources for their designated business area and collaborates closely with the Talent COEs and broader HR community to drive an integrated approach to Talent Management.

Reporting Relationships:

This position reports to the most senior HRBP Lead for the BU or function.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

1. Business/Function Strategic Talent Partnership

· As part of the enterprise talent strategy - serve as the senior-most talent advisor to business or function leaders, translating local business strategy, performance drivers, and future capability needs into actionable talent plans for their areas.

· Shape and influence organizational design, leadership composition, and workforce strategy to enable growth, innovation, and operational excellence for the business or function.

2. Talent Management & Succession Planning

· Leveraging CoE, lead the strategy, execution, and governance of talent management processes across the business area, ensuring depth, diversity, and readiness of internal talent pipelines.

· Drive succession planning. Partnering with CoE and VP/ED HR, facilitate rigorous talent reviews and development planning and internal mobility.

· Partner with the CoE to accelerate high-potential talent and strengthen leadership capability globally.

· Leverage talent dashboards and analytics to understand health of the pipeline and develop action plans

3. Workforce Planning, Capability & Skill Building

· In partnership with VP/ED and CoE conduct ongoing workforce skills assessment and planning and future talent requirements, risks, and gaps.

· Develop and implement capability-building strategies—including build/buy/borrow/bot/bounce talent approaches—to ensure the business remains future-ready.

4. Employee Experience & Engagement

· In partnership with the enterprise CoE, champion local business or function initiatives that elevate engagement, culture, and wellbeing, ensuring a cohesive and compelling employee experience across geographies.

· Provide insight-driven recommendations across listening events to enhance retention, inclusion, and team effectiveness.

5. Collaboration & Enterprise Integration

· Work closely with other Talent Partners in the business and CoE to align processes, share insights, and drive consistency in how talent is identified, developed, and supported globally.

· Partner cross-functionally across HR to ensure an integrated talent approach that enables both enterprise and local business objectives.

6. Data-Driven Talent Insights

· Leverage talent analytics to inform strategy, measure progress, and highlight organisational risks or opportunities for the BU or Function.

· Translate workforce, succession, and talent pipeline data into clear insights that inform business and HR decision-making for the BU or Function

· Conduct trend analysis on movement, performance, potential, retention risks, and diversity to identify opportunities or emerging risks for the BU or Function

· Leverage dashboards for real-time visibility into talent health and organizational capability for the BU or Function

· Maintain awareness of external market conditions for talent – partnering with CoE

7. Leadership Cohorts

· Where appropriate- partner with CoE for the implementation of leadership cohort development within the business area, ensuring alignment with enterprise leadership models.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Significant experience in HR business partnering or talent management roles, ideally within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences sector.
• Demonstrated ability to design and lead strategic talent initiatives at scale.
• Strong understanding of workforce planning, succession management, and leadership development.
• Experience with talent analytics and data-driven HR decision-making.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field required; Master’s degree or CIPD qualification preferred.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking and business acumen
• Relationship building and collaboration
• Change leadership and agility
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Integrity, discretion, and commitment to confidentiality
• Program/process management

Location & Travel

Role is global and will be based in Bern (Switzerland), Boca Raton (USA) or King of Prussia (USA).

Regular international travel is required.