Senior Director, HRBP

Syneos Health/ inVentiv Health Commercial LLC
paid time off, sick time, 401(k)
United States, North Carolina, Morrisville
1030 Sync Street (Show on map)
Jun 10, 2025
Description Senior Director, HRBP Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life. Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know. WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE Why Syneos Health We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. Job Responsibilities JOB SUMMARY Drives the process of building strong talent, teams, and leaders across the enterprise to positively impact the business and the employee experience. Responsible for supporting HRBP Leads in driving the talent agenda and promoting workforce optimization of an assigned business unit(s) aligning to senior or executive leadership. Translates business needs into HR requirements and partners with COEs to proactively develop talent solutions that support the business' strategic objectives. Enable continuous improved talent by diagnosing, evaluating, and supporting the design of talent solutions at the full BU or department level. The HRBP, collaborates with COEs, People Services and BU leaders to build organization performance management and talent capabilities. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Strategy-Setting Leadership Leverages performance management insights and analytics to create the talent development plan based on discussions and template from COE. In collaboration with the HRBP Lead, identifies business challenges and translate them into workforce plans. Drives the identification of talent gaps, propose and implement changes necessary to cover risks. Understands and analyzes the talent data e.g. assessments, turnover, exit data, TA feedback, hiring feedback, engagement survey, etc. Possess and in-depth understanding of the business in order to support HRBP Leads as HR and leaders in the business. May lead a small team of HRBPs aligned to the assigned Business Unit. Key Initiatives Understands the BU's operating environment and applies awareness of the BU's goals and objectives when designing workforce plans Supports work with the Talent COE to translate identified BU lessons learned from talent needs into enhanced workforce planning & development strategy and plans. Synthesizes talent, business, and financial considerations to drive talent decision making and prioritization. Connects with Lead HRBPs and HRBP colleagues to collaborate and leverage experience to further HRBP work without duplication. Supports key business initiatives and leads or engages with identified workstreams. Annual Processes Leads succession planning process and ongoing development conversations by partnering with HRBP Lead and BU leader to document the needs for the next generation of leaders in the system. Supports work involving the Engagement Surveys results e.g. results assessment, BU level actioning. Supports CoE led projects (e.g., career framework, job framework, etc.). Provides COEs with feedback on global programs. Ongoing Engagement Supports the partnership with COEs to maintain visibility to HR programs, policies and escalate issues/ problems for COE resolution. Supports the relationship with the BU leaders to drive culture agenda at the business unit level. Provides feedback to COEs and People Services on HR programs, processes, and tools delivered to BU. Collaborates with People Services, where necessary, to provide continuous service for a positive employee experience. Collaborates with other HRBPs, where necessary, to provide enhanced, aligned and continuously improved HR services. Drives effective communication and collaboration among team members. Qualifications Requirements Bachelor's degree required (preferably in business or HR) MBA or advanced degree preferred HR experience, including HR Business Partner experience Skills Business Knowledge: Accomplished in managing processes, people, and data to align enterprise with innovative business models. Mastery level experience in understanding, organizing, and leveraging business operations and functions. Ability to recognize system flaws, disadvantages, and competent in strategizing enterprise solutions. Executive Presence: Demonstrates ability to have self-awareness, impression management, and the need to target communication to specific audiences. Appreciation for composure under pressure. Problem Solving: Addresses complex problems with expert navigational skills while engaging solutions-driven conversations within large groups. Capable of building group consensus regarding potentially high risk, widespread, and cross departmental organizational challenges. Instinctively incorporates organizational values and research-driven problem-solving techniques in all potential engagements and solutions. Collaboration: Expert in leading teams to inspire innovation and drive desired business outcomes. Leads with or without formal authority. Consistently builds bridges for rich working relationship leading to outstanding engagement. Influence: Effectively stewards initiatives throughout the organization. Gains enthusiasm and buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders. Highly skilled at internal stakeholder management. Key member of networks. Demonstrates ability to inspire and motivate employees at all levels of the organization. Professional Courage: Capable of taking on new and potentially daunting tasks in an effort to grow professionally and learn from mistakes. Encourages team members to be courageous, innovate, and learn new things. Data Storytelling: Demonstrates the ability to communicate data insights and the business implications of those to various stakeholder groups. Coaching: Ability to map career directions, identify cross functional roles, creates objective career pathways for an array of talent groups, and maintains transparency to ensure objectivity in the coaching process. Change Management: Accomplished in providing individualized and organizational support to advise change management processes, serves are a primary facilitator for critical change management engagements and department initiatives. Talent & Succession Planning: Demonstrates ability to analyze current workforce, indemnity gaps for new talent and resources, and anticipate the succession strategy with awareness of tactical change management techniques. Incorporates leading practices into talent and succession planning. Growth Mindset: Clearly possesses the ability to see how individual and team growth plays a role in achieving the broader organizational purpose. Displays a growth mindset in self and inspires others to have a growth mindset as well. Learns from failure quickly. Future-focused. At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements. Salary Range: The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com Additional Information Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.