Chief People Officer

Contact: Daniel Strauss
Phone: (267) 948-1441

Position Overview

Our client combines best-in-class antibody engineering, rational therapeutic combinations, and precision immunology approaches to maximize efficacy, safety, and convenience of treatments for inflammatory bowel disease.

Our client is seeking to expand their global Leadership Team with a Chief People Officer (CPO) who is an innovative team player, who is enthusiastic in driving our People function forward to attract, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Our perfect candidate is experienced in life sciences globally and in the US, is experienced across several areas within human resources, and is willing to roll up their sleeves to help build a world-class organization from the ground level. The Chief People Officer will be a member of the Executive Leadership Team and will report to the CEO. They will likely have regular interactions with the Board of Directors.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a Talent vision and strategies, define annual objectives and key results, identify key systems and resources to enable our client’s talent vision.
  • In partnership with other members of our client’s global Leadership Team, update our client’s Talent vision as necessary enabling continuous growth and evolution of the organization, and to attract, engage, develop, and retain top talent.
  • Formulate key strategies and define annual organizational goals in the Talent area, including key results, timelines, resources needed, and supporting systems.
  • Champion of company culture: in charge of updating key elements (values, policies), fostering cultural alignment across the Leadership Team, and ensuring that necessary mechanisms are in place to ensure our client maintains a common culture across its global footprint reflective of its values, in particular as the organization grows and evolves.
  • Support our client’s Leadership Team in the strategic evolution of the organization of their areas of responsibility, being a thought partner in strategic organizational evolution, talent development, and succession planning.
  • Ensure that our client has comprehensive approaches to employee engagement, culture, and retention by refining compensation and benefits, career paths, succession planning, and learning and development opportunities.
  • Incorporate feedback and partner with our client’s Board of Directors’ Compensation Committee, ensuring appropriate reporting and review and approval of key decisions.
• Ensure that our client’s HR team has an appropriate organizational structure, is well resourced, and key coordination mechanisms are in place to effectively support the organizational needs in all geographies where our client operates.
  • Ensure that our client has HR operations, processes, data, systems, and resources (budget and staff) that enable our vision.
  • Establish an effective mechanism by which the HR team partners across the organization with key business leaders supporting them in their objective and key results.
  • Ensure that key interfaces with other areas (legal, finance) operate effectively and that our client is compliant with all global regulations.
  • Partner with Finance in overseeing departmental budgets and headcount.
  • Partner with IT on HRIS and related systems, protocols, capabilities, and upgrades.
  • Partner with Legal to ensure compliance & to mitigate organizational risks.
• Lead and oversee all HR operations and Global Compensation.
  • Inspire, coach, and manage managers and leaders for each area, helping them to reach their highest potential. Ensure that each team leader has clear objectives and personal development plans.
  • Oversee execution across the different areas, being a key thought partner for functional leaders in HRIS, Performance Management, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, Engagement, Benefits, Rewards, Immigration, Policies and Compliance.
  • Oversee compensation practices and lead on the development of a compensation philosophy to ensure salary benchmarking and surveys are completed and updated on a regular basis.
  • Oversee key HR elements for all our client’s personnel.
  • Ensure compliance across all geographies with policies and regulations, including at the state and local level.
  • Support and/or directly address internal personnel cases, in partnership with legal.
• Ensure that the HR team is a key partner in fostering our client’s culture of empowered, engaged and diverse talent.
  • Coach and counsel the Leadership Team in professional development for themselves and their teams to achieve improved performance and engagement, developing leadership bench strength capable of addressing the challenges of a highly dynamic and growing organization.
  • Champion our client’s commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, ensuring leadership visibility and support for initiatives and strategy.
  • Serve as a leader across the organization, driving culture, communicating key messages, and embodying core values.
  • Establish a “People culture” that cultivates open dialogue between staff and HR, ensuring employees feel listened to and supported, and see HR as the place to go for any challenge that they might have.

Key Requirements

• B.S. with 10+ years of relevant experience; prior experience in the Life Sciences sector is required. Previous experience in drug discovery highly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience as a human resources leader who builds consensus around human resources strategies and tactics as it relates to overall talent management, employee development and resource management while driving and supporting business objectives and organizational goals.
• Validated credibility as a trusted advisor to senior management on business issues and strategies with the capacity to link human resources as a driver and influencer of performance.
• Well-versed in current California and federal labor, wage and hour laws. Multi-state experience highly preferred.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills across all company functions are essential.
• Experience building strong, highly skilled, and engaged workforce in evolving and advanced technical industries is required.
• Demonstrated success as a trusted HR Business Partner supporting senior leadership and executives.
• Experience in implementing and leading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives.
• Experience utilizing HR data to develop HR key performance indicators to drive decision making and planning is required.
• Experience working on cross-functional topics that span HR, Legal and Finance, collaborating and ensuring input across relevant stakeholders.
• Excellent communications skills – written, verbal and interpersonal – and an ability to tailor communication style to diverse audiences globally.
• Experience maximizing value of HRIS systems.
• A team-player, who is willing to roll up their sleeves to do the work and who is motivated and inspired by our client’s mission and staff.
• Innovative leader, able to challenge the status quo and to see the opportunities.

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If interested, please send a MS Word version of your resume to [email protected]

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