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Position Summary
The Lead Director, HR Business Partner, serves as the primary strategic HR advisor to a select group of Corporate Finance functions (Capital Markets and Enterprise Finance) and their respective Finance Leadership Teams, playing a critical role in shaping the organization, leadership, and workforce capabilities of the function.
This role partners closely with both Finance and HR leadership to shape, translate, and evolve people and workforce priorities, aligning overall Finance people direction with the unique needs of the segment.
This role is accountable for advancing and delivering Finance people priorities by attracting, developing, and retaining top talent; optimizing organization design and operating models; enabling leadership and succession readiness; and driving effective change adoption.
The Lead Director reports to the AVP, Finance HR Business Partner.
Major Responsibilities
Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to Finance corporate functions executive leaders, enabling informed decisions on talent, workforce effectiveness, and organizational design in support of evolving business and financial priorities.
Build strong talent pipelines and succession readiness for critical Finance roles through effective selection, onboarding, development, internal mobility, and rigorous performance management, compensation, and recognition practices.
Partner with Finance leaders to design and evolve efficient and effective organization structures and operating models, translating business strategy into workforce plans that balance capability, capacity, productivity, and cost.
Leverage workforce, organization, and talent insights to identify risks, inform strategy, and drive measurable improvements in engagement, retention, and performance within the respective functions.
Own the quality, rigor, and consistency of annual people processes across Finance Corporate Functions, including performance management, calibration, talent reviews, compensation planning, and promotion decisions.
Partner across HR Centers of Excellence to integrate enterprise programs and solutions in support of Finance priorities, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards while meeting segment needs.
Partner across the Finance HR team to ensure alignment and consistency of talent practices across segments.
Champion adoption of AI-enabled tools, digital capabilities, and Finance optimization efforts, supporting leaders and colleagues through change and fostering an adaptable, change-capable organization.
Support the Finance optimization effort, a multi-year roadmap to build a more unified, future-ready Finance organization.
Role Success
The Lead Director, HR Business Partner is successful when:
Finance leadership team has a clear, aligned view of the future‑state organization and a credible plan to put the right talent in the right roles over time to meet business and financial objectives.
Critical Finance roles have identified credible successors with meaningful development plans.
Finance leaders receive people recommendations based on a strong understanding of all areas of Human Resources, appropriately leveraging CoE colleagues.
Engagement and retention of key talent are stable or improving.
Finance leadership team views HR as a strategic enabler, not a compliance function.
Finance leaders (minimally VP+) understand how to navigate HR processes and when to engage their HR Business Partner.
People decisions and processes are clear and executed with quality, rigor, and consistency across the Finance organization.
Finance optimization efforts include an element of org and op model design, ensuring we are organizing our people effectively.
Finance optimization efforts consistently incorporate organizational and operating model design, with HR supporting leaders in evolving roles, structure, and ways of working to enable technology adoption and simpler, more connected processes.
Preferred Locations:
Work From Home (WFH) or offices in PA, NY, CT, RI, MA. For highly qualified candidates at the Director level, we are open to additional U.S. locations based on experience
Required Qualifications
10 years of experience in HR
Progressive Human Resources experience, including experience serving as a strategic HR Business Partner to senior executive leaders, with demonstrated ability to influence and advise at the SVP/C-suite +1 level.
Ability to clearly translate talent strategies into how they generate business value.
Demonstrated success shaping and executing workforce, organization design, and talent strategies within complex, matrixed organizations.
Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate financial and operational priorities into effective people, organization, and workforce solutions.
Experience leading or supporting significant organizational changes, including restructuring, operating model shifts, or transformation initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to use workforce and talent insights to assess risk, inform decisions, and drive measurable improvements in engagement, retention, and performance.
Experience integrating enterprise HR programs and Centers of Excellence solutions into business-specific strategies.
Demonstrated personal commitment to understanding and applying AI and emerging technologies, including investing time in ongoing learning to thoughtful day-to-day integration.
Preferred Qualifications
2 years of experience at the Director level as a HRBP
Education
Bachelor’s degree (required)
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$100,000.00 - $231,540.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive for benefits-eligible colleagues, including medical, dental, and vision with free preventive care and access to virtual care and select no-cost MinuteClinic services. Mental health support is also highlighted with no-cost confidential counseling sessions per issue.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after meeting service and hours requirements. Ownership programs are also offered through an employee stock purchase plan with a stated purchase discount.
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Pay Growth & Progression — A companywide minimum wage floor establishes a baseline that is framed as a positive starting point in some roles and markets. Unionized or high-cost areas are described as having clearer wage scales and step-ups that can materially lift pay over time.
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