Director, HRBP

Working with Us Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more:

As the trusted People Partner to the Senior Leader of the function, you’ll architect and activate a people strategy that fuels innovation and accelerates performance across a global footprint. In this role, you’ll lead with influence—driving workforce planning, organizational design, and talent strategies that enable agility and growth.

You’ll be the catalyst for team effectiveness and cultural alignment, ensuring our organization is positioned to deliver on bold ambitions. Change management isn’t a task here—it’s a discipline you’ll master to help leaders and teams thrive through transformation. Your client group spans multiple geographies and functions, requiring a global mindset and seamless collaboration with the People organization and functional leadership. Together, you’ll translate enterprise priorities into actionable strategies that elevate talent and optimize organizational effectiveness.

If you’re an HR strategist with consulting experience who thrives on complexity, loves solving organizational challenges, and is energized by shaping high-performing teams—this is your opportunity to make an impact that matters.

• Provides strategic HR Business Partner expertise to the senior leaders of the function to maximize organizational performance.
• Translates business strategy and organizational needs into contemporary global organizational performance solutions including organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, and culture change.
• Aligns corporate and functional strategies with BMS people strategy, monitoring the effectiveness of organizational performance programs through metrics and analytics to bring value through the business.
• Collaborates with Centers of Excellence (COE’s) to monitor external environment (e.g., job market, technology, demographic development) and define future workforce requirements (quantitative and qualitative) as well as identifying and articulating the People needs of the business to the COE’s and deploys their programs and processes in ways that bring value to the business.
• Drives the ONE People team across the region and provides guidance and collaborates with therapeutic area HR Business Partners, COEs and People Services leaders for effective global deployment of People activities.
• Analyzes key data and trends to drive organizational effectiveness and the development of a workforce plan aligned with business strategy and objectives.
• Supports succession planning, talent retention efforts and pipelining, as necessary, for external talent.
• Leads a team of functional HRBPs ensuring continuous performance, engagement and development of all team members.
• Additional Responsibilities
• Role Model our BMS Values of Integrity, Innovation, Urgency, Passion, Accountability, and Inclusion.
• Translate business strategy and organizational needs into contemporary organizational solutions including organizational design, inclusion and diversity, succession & talent management, and culture change.
• Collaborate across the People OP Model (COE’s, People Services) to articulate business needs and partners in delivering solutions in ways that bring value across the enterprise.
• Champion “systems thinking” and the application of data and metrics that drives business performance.
• Shape and lead…