Job Description
General Summary:
The Human Resource Business Partner Director (HRBPD) provides HR leadership and consultation to client groups within one or multiple functions, including Global Clinical Operations (GCO) and Global Patient Safety (GPS). The HRBPD is a trusted advisor to leaders, providing expert HR advice and advanced solutions that enable the achievement of business strategies by leveraging a significant understanding of the operating environment. This role drives talent management and helps architect and manage organizational change. The role oversees the delivery of HR programs and services such as talent/career development, manager coaching and consultation, talent acquisition of key positions, compensation processes, and performance management.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides strategic HR leadership and expert guidance to assigned client groups, Global Clinical Operations (GCO) and Global Patient Safety (GPS), along with consultation and delivery of HR programs and services to achieve key business objectives
- Leverages complex data and analytics to provide critical insights into business and talent trends that inform the overall business and HR priorities. Provide insights in a simple, creative, and relevant way that challenges current thinking, informs business decisions, and shows how decisions impact business outcomes. Builds consensus and alignment around a topic and persuades others to take action.
- Proactively defines, builds and implements value-added HR strategies and solutions
- Advises functional leaders in solving complex issues related to organization design, development, and change leadership
- Establishes strategies and tactics to enable the business to attract, develop, and retain high-quality talent at all levels to support the growth objectives, opportunities, and strategies of the business
- Leads the strategic workforce planning efforts to ensure the people and talent strategy is in alignment with the organization's long range strategic plan (identification of long-term capability needs, talent acquisition and succession planning)
- Builds strong partnerships with the HR specialist functions such as Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Employee Services and Global Operations (ESGO), TM and Strategic Analytics to provide HR solutions to key business needs and to roll out corporate-wide programs that enhance the overall employee experience and support growth and success of overall business strategy
- Works with clients to implement and manage key HR processes, such as the year-end performance management process (performance assessment, calibration, and compensation planning)
- Partners with Talent Acquisition (TA) to ensure TA strategy is in place to deliver on key capability builds. Specific focus on diverse talents, critical and board-approved hires
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience developing and implementing HR strategies
- Expert-level experience developing strategic workforce plans, from conception to implementation
- Highly experienced in talent management, succession planning, and career growth and development
- Strong experience managing and/or leading culture and change management or organizational effectiveness initiatives
- Experience and expert understanding of management development, employee relations, data and analytics, diversity and inclusion
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in human resources or related, relevant discipline
- Typically requires 10 years of experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience
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Flex Designation:
Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible
Flex Eligibility Status:
In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at [email protected]
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vertex Pharmaceuticals and has not been reviewed or approved by Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide 12 weeks of 100% paid bonding leave for all U.S. parents with additional fully paid time for birth parents. Family-forming supports include adoption and surrogacy assistance, fertility options like IVF and egg cryopreservation, breast‑milk shipping, subsidized childcare, backup care, and a DCFSA match.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes roughly four weeks of vacation, 13 holidays, sick time, and two companywide shutdowns (summer and year‑end). Some roles also include flexible or unlimited time off and paid volunteer time.
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Retirement Support — Programs include a 401(k) plan with employer contributions and an employee stock purchase plan. Filings describe employer contributions occurring in company stock, supporting long‑term ownership.
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What We Do
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. We discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases. Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our corporate headquarters is now located in Boston’s Innovation District, and our international headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. We currently employ approximately 3,500 people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America with nearly two-thirds of our staff dedicated to research and development. Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. Our research and medicines have also received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the French Prix Galien and the British Pharmacological Society awards.
