Job Title
HR Leader, Innovative Medicine
Location
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom (until October 2026, then Maidenhead, UK)
Contract
Full‑time, Hybrid
About the Role
You will act as a trusted HR Business Partner to defined business areas across the UK and Ireland. You will work closely with leaders to deliver practical, high‑impact people solutions that support business performance. This hands‑on role covers talent, organisation, culture, change, and the use of data and AI to enhance decision making and HR delivery. You will contribute to shaping people priorities while owning execution across the HR agenda for your business area.
Role Responsibilities
- Partner with the business: Build strong relationships with leaders and provide day‑to‑day HR guidance and coaching.
- Support the delivery of business priorities through effective people plans.
- Use data, digital tools, and AI‑driven insights to identify issues, inform decisions, and drive actions.
- Deliver talent and capability priorities: execute talent processes including talent reviews, succession planning, and workforce planning; support leaders to build strong, diverse talent pipelines; contribute to capability building, including digital fluency and adoption of AI‑enabled ways of working.
- Support organisational effectiveness: contribute to organisational reviews and changes, including team structure and role design; use analytics and AI‑enabled tools to identify opportunities to improve organisational design and performance; support implementation of organisational changes and ensure smooth transitions.
- Drive engagement and support change: support leaders in building an inclusive, high‑performing team environment; leverage employee insights, including pulse data and AI‑supported analysis, to inform engagement actions; help implement change initiatives and support teams through transitions.
- Work across the HR model: partner closely with Centers of Excellence and HR Services to deliver integrated solutions; ensure consistent and high‑quality HR delivery across your business areas; contribute to continuous improvement of HR processes, including digitisation and intelligent automation opportunities.
What You’ll Bring
- At least 5 years experience, ideally as an HR Business Partner in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Proven ability to support leaders and deliver across the full employee lifecycle.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to build credibility quickly.
- Experience delivering talent processes, organisational changes, and HR initiatives end‑to‑end.
- Good business understanding with the ability to translate priorities into practical actions.
- Confidence working with data and insights to support decision making.
- Experience leveraging digital tools and AI (e.g., analytics, automation, or decision support) to improve HR outcomes.
- A hands‑on, pragmatic approach with strong delivery focus.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
The Unique Value You Bring
- Balance strategic thinking with strong execution.
- Comfortable challenging and supporting leaders in equal measure.
- Take ownership and follow through to delivery.
- Collaborate and build effective relationships across teams.
- Curious about AI and technology, and actively apply it to improve HR impact and efficiency.
Required Skills
- Change Management; Coaching; Consulting; Employee Engagement; Employee Relations; Employee Retention; HR Business Partnership; HR Strategic Management; Human Resources Consulting; Human Resources Law; Interpersonal Influence; Organizational Change Management; Problem Solving; Process Improvements; Talent Management; Technical Credibility.
Preferred Skills
- Change Management; Coaching; Consulting; Employee Engagement; Employee Relations; Employee Retention; HR Business Partnership; HR Strategic Management; Human Resources Consulting; Human Resources Law; Interpersonal Influence; Organizational Change Management; Problem Solving; Process Improvements; Talent Management; Technical Credibility.
