Director, HR Business Partner - IT

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services, diagnostics, and drug development solutions that uses science, data, technology, and laboratory networks to improve health outcomes. The Director, HR Business Partner - IT serves as a senior strategic advisor to global IT executive leadership, driving people strategy, organizational design, succession planning, talent development, workforce analytics, and HR integration across regions.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as the trusted advisor to multiple (SVPs/VPs) and their global leadership teams translating business strategy into integrated people strategy
• Provides strategic counsel on leadership effectiveness, performance outcomes, culture and engagement impacts, and talent/succession planning
• Advises on executive onboarding, transitions, and leadership team dynamics
• Anticipates people-related risks tied to business priorities and operating changes
• Ensures alignment between global functional priorities and regional/local execution, balancing trade-offs between global standardization and local requirements
• Leads complex organizational design efforts across one or more global functions, ensuring org design reflects evolving business needs and digital/technology-enabled operating models required to drive growth
• Facilitates executive decision-making on structure, roles, and organizational trade-offs
• Integrates organizational design with succession and talent strategy
• Anticipates downstream impacts of organizational changes
• Partners with regional HR and business leaders to optimize global operating models, spans/layers, and location strategies
• Leads SVP and VP level succession planning and executive talent reviews
• Ensures consistent application of performance and talent standards globally, while incorporating regional nuances visa a vis partnership with regional HR
• Advises on performance differentiation and pay-for-performance decisions with Total Rewards
• Partners with Talent and Learning COEs on leadership development strategies
• Identifies and develops global leadership pipelines, including mobility strategies and cross-market talent deployment
• Partners with client leaders on development and execution of employee engagement and retention strategies
• Coaches senior leaders on leadership effectiveness
• Acts as the central point of integration between global function leadership and regional HR organizations, ensuring seamless execution of HR strategies across countries
• Partners with HR COEs: Compensation, Talent, Learning, Global Benefits, Talent Acquisition, HR Analytics, HR Tech, ID&B, Compliance on execution of talent processes and programs
• Ensures people decisions align with enterprise HR governance
• Navigates complex multi-country labor laws, regulatory environments, and cultural considerations, proactively mitigating risk
• Provides strategic insights and decision materials to business leaders
• Represents client organizations’ people agenda in HR forums
• Leverages workforce analytics and external benchmarks to inform decisions
• Uses data to diagnose organizational health and predict risks
• Partners with HR Analytics to build insights and dashboards
• Leverages technology, digital tools, and AI-enabled insights to improve decision quality, organizational effectiveness, and workforce productivity
• Partners with HR Tech and IT to drive adoption of digital solutions that enhance employee experience, automation, and data visibility
• Operates with high autonomy, escalating only the most critical risks
• Makes independent, data-informed recommendations on executive talent, organizational design, and workforce strategy, with direct influence on final leadership decisions

Requirements:

• • Bachelors' Degree
• • 12 or more years of progressive HR leadership experience
• • Demonstrated success advising on and influencing business strategy working with Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents
• • Experience in global, matrixed environments supporting complex functions, influencing outcomes across regions without direct authority
• • Experience leading complex organizational design in partnership with the Business and COEs
• • Experience using data and analytics to drive talent and organizational decisions
• • Expertise in performance management, succession planning, and leadership effectiveness
• • Strong business acumen and financial acumen; Experience aligning workforce strategies with financial plans, including headcount planning, budgeting, and cost management
• • Excellent executive communication skills and presence
• • Strong cross-COE partnership capability
• • Ability to travel as needed (~15% -20%)
• • Advanced degree (MBA, MA in HR or related field)
• • HR certification (e.g., SPHR, SHRM-SCP)
• • 1 or more years' experience in healthcare or life sciences industry