Senior Director – HR COEs, Global Talent Management

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Senior Director – HR COEs, Global Talent Management role will make an impact:

The Senior Director – HR COEs, Global Talent Management is a key enterprise leader within the Talent COE, responsible for shaping and embedding a high-performance culture and leading adoption and focus on enterprise-wide talent strategies. This role leads the strategy, design, and continuous evolution of global talent and performance management, bringing forward actionable insights to inform decision-making and drive measurable business impact. The Senior Director oversees the end-to-end development of talent solutions—from research and design through implementation and optimization.

As a core member of the Global Talent COE, this leader partners closely with HR Business Partners and business leaders to translate enterprise strategy into scalable, data-driven talent practices. These efforts strengthen organizational effectiveness, enhance agility, and build critical capabilities across functions and geographies. The role also collaborates with People Solutions, HR Technology, and analytics teams to enable disciplined execution, leverage insights, and modernize talent management through digital solutions.

This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, operating effectively in complex, matrixed environments and driving change at scale.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

High-Performance Culture & Talent Strategy

• Lead and embed a global high-performance culture by integrating performance management, accountability capability building and engagement across the employee lifecycle.
• Define clear enterprise talent philosophy, standards, expectations and priorities aligned to enterprise strategic imperatives
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HRBPs, Talent Partners, and management on talent, performance and organizational health, and a variety of current and next stage talent focused initiatives.
• Leads the evolution of a digitally enabled, analytics-driven talent ecosystem, ensuring platforms such as Workday are fully leveraged to drive a high-performance culture and future-ready workforce.

Talent & Performance Management

• Leads the end-to-end design and evolution of global talent management practices, including:
  • Performance management and goal setting
  • Talent review and calibration
  • Succession and talent pools identification
  • Career progression and progression frameworks
  • Skills and capabilities frameworks, reskilling and upskilling best practices
• Ensure talent programs are designed with the constituent experience lens
• Leverage talent analytics to drive focus, and continuously improve talent outcomes

Organizational Effectiveness & Development

• Partner with HRBPs to improve team and organizational performance and effectiveness through practical frameworks and interventions.
• Diagnose organizational needs and implement targeted solutions that enhance clarity, speed and effectiveness.
• Enable HR Business Partner strategic talent focuses

Talent Development & Succession

• Define and oversee a global development strategy that builds talent pipelines at all levels.
• Align talent development with future capability needs and enterprise priorities.
• Ensure robust assessment, calibration, and succession processes for critical roles.
• Partners closely with Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development to ensure the skills and capabilities forecast is synced with talent management and workforce planning.

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or related field is preferred. HR Certification in is preferred.
• 12-15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, with deep expertise in talent management, organizational effectiveness, and leadership development within large, global and matrixed organizations.
• Experience operating at Senior Director level and partnering with enterprise colleagues at all levels, across a variety of functions and talent levels.
• Demonstrated success as an HRBP is required and COE is preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading the design through optimization lifecycles of scalable talent and organization effectiveness solutions across geographies and functions.
• Strong system-thinking, HR technology and analytical capability; ability to translate data and insights into practical, business-aligned solutions.
• Proven change leadership, with the ability to influence without authority and drive adoption in complex and agile business environments.
• Experience in pharma, life sciences, healthcare or similarly regulated, global industries strongly preferred; relevant experience from other multinational sectors also valued.
• Experience in leading talent management focus in modern, HR technology enabled environments is preferred, Workday experience is ideal.
• Role offers remote flexibility with preference for candidates on US East Coast or Europe and may require travel to various sites, including internationally, up to approximately 25% of time.

Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. The salary range for this position is $151,000 – $314,000.

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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