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A Brief Overview
The Lead Director, HRBP partners with senior leaders across the HR function to align talent priorities with business strategy and enterprise direction. This role identifies the talent levers that matter most, guides leaders through complex organizational and colleague-related challenges, and ensures talent strategies, processes, and programs have clear impact on colleague experience, leadership effectiveness, and business performance. This role specifically supports HR leaders and teams, serving as an HRBP to the HR function. Supported by Centers of Excellence and other specialized HR partners, this role serves as a strategic advisor by shaping talent priorities, strengthening leadership capability, and driving organizational effectiveness.
As a Business Partner to the HR function, this role operates in a uniquely sensitive environment, requiring exceptional judgment, discretion, credibility, and the ability to navigate complex organizational and colleague matters with confidentiality and objectivity.
What You Will Do
- Serve as a strategic HRBP to the HR function, aligning talent priorities with business needs, enterprise direction, and long-term organizational goals
- Partner with senior leaders to identify the talent levers that matter most and focus the organization on clear, prioritized action
- Build trusted relationships and provide consulting, coaching, and challenge to leaders navigating complex talent and organizational issues
- Apply strong business acumen to understand how value is created and connect talent priorities to business outcomes
- Anticipate current and future talent needs, helping leaders plan for emerging gaps and build organizational capability over time
- Drive strategies and initiatives that strengthen colleague experience, proactively identifying engagement risks and addressing them before they affect business performance
- Strengthen leadership capability by equipping leaders to perform in their current roles while building a pipeline of talent for the future
- Partner on talent strategies that support succession, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and high-performing teams
- Apply broad HR expertise and sound judgment to diagnose root causes of people-related issues and recommend practical, business-aligned actions
- Provide change leadership guidance and help leaders communicate and implement change in ways that foster agility, resilience, and adoption of new ways of working
- Deliver core talent processes with quality and discipline, ensuring programs are executed effectively and have meaningful impact on the function and the broader business
- Take ownership for outcomes, remove barriers, and drive adoption and follow-through across HR and business teams
**This is a hybrid role based out of the Hartford, CT hub. **
Minimum Requirements
- 10 years of overall professional work experience
- 5 years of strategic Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) experience
- 1-2 years of experience in a Director-level HR Business Partner role, either currently or in a previous position
- Mastery of problem solving and decision-making skills
- Mastery of collaboration and teamwork
- Mastery of growth mindset, including agility and developing self and others
- Mastery of execution and delivery, including planning, delivering, and supporting work
- Mastery of business intelligence
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect talent strategy to business performance
- Strong strategic thinking skills, including the ability to anticipate future talent and organizational needs
- Strong HR expertise and judgment, with the ability to diagnose and address complex people issues
- Proven ability to influence, coach, and guide leaders across a complex organization
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to drive adoption of new ways of working
Education
- Bachelor’s degree preferred and/or specialized training, relevant professional qualification
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.
Skills Required
- 10 years of overall professional work experience
- 5 years of strategic Human Resources Business Partner experience
- 1–2 years of experience in a Director-level HR Business Partner role
- Mastery of problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Mastery of collaboration and teamwork
- Mastery of growth mindset, including agility and developing self and others
- Mastery of execution and delivery, including planning, delivering, and supporting work
- Mastery of business intelligence
- Strong business acumen and ability to connect talent strategy to business performance
- Strong strategic thinking skills and ability to anticipate talent and organizational needs
- Strong HR expertise and judgment for diagnosing and addressing complex people issues
- Ability to influence, coach, and guide leaders across a complex organization
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to drive adoption of new ways of working
- Bachelor's degree and/or specialized training or relevant professional qualification
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 — Health coverage is described as broad and robust, spanning medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and disability insurance. Access to no-cost preventive care through MinuteClinic and virtual medical services further enhances the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness and education resources stand out, including tuition assistance, confidential counseling with generous session limits, virtual mental-health care, fitness programs, financial coaching, and employee discounts. Backup-care support and other lifestyle discounts add everyday value.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented programs such as paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, doula support, caregiving resources, and backup care are highlighted. These offerings indicate meaningful support for different life stages.
CVS Health Insights
What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
