Executive Director, People Business Partnership

The role

The Executive Director, People Business Partnership leads the People Business Partner team and serves as a senior advisor to business and People & Performance leadership. This role translates business strategy into workforce, leadership, and talent priorities to enable growth and performance.

What you will do

• Lead and develop Acadia’s People Business Partner team
• Translate strategy into workforce, organization, leadership and talent implications
• Serve as a senior advisor to business and P&P leaders
• Partner with leaders to identify required capabilities, roles, structures and talent
• Build a forward-looking workforce planning approach
• Lead organization design and effectiveness work
• Partner with Talent Management to strengthen succession and leadership pipelines
• Strengthen leadership effectiveness through coaching and advice
• Enable organizational change by building leadership alignment
• Partner with P&P Centers of Excellence and Operations to create scalable solutions

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development or a related field
• 15+ years of progressive P&P, Human Resources or related leadership experience
• 8+ years leading teams and enterprise-wide people initiatives
• Proven experience leading a senior PBP team and advising executive leaders in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare or another highly regulated environment
• Strong business acumen
• Demonstrated success in organization design, workforce planning, talent and succession planning, leadership development and large-scale change
• Ability to use workforce data, business indicators, organizational insights and market intelligence to influence decisions
• Experience delivering outcomes through senior business partners, cross-functional teams and Centers of Excellence
• Working knowledge of employment law, employee relations, performance management and organizational risk
• Exceptional executive communication, coaching, facilitation, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment
• Ability to travel up to 25%, primarily within the United States

Nice to have

• An advanced degree

Benefits

• Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer-paid life, disability, business travel and EAP coverage
• 401(k) Plan with a fully vested company match 1:1 up to 5%
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 2-year purchase price lock-in
• 15+ vacation days
• 13 -15 paid holidays, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st
• 10 days of paid sick time
• Paid parental leave benefit
• Tuition assistance

About the company

Acadia is committed to turning scientific promise into meaningful innovation for underserved neurological and rare disease communities. Their commercial portfolio includes the first and only FDA-approved treatments for Parkinson’s disease psychosis and Rett syndrome.