Senior Director, Human Resources Business Partner

The role

The Senior Director, Human Resources Business Partner serves as a strategic partner to leaders across the organization. This person will provide guidance on employee relations, performance management, organizational design, workforce planning, and talent development.

What you will do

• Serve as a hands-on, strategic partner to the business while designing and implementing HR strategy including people policies and programs.
• Lead HR strategy for large, complex business areas to build and support Beam’s culture and short and long-term business goals and objectives.
• Provide coaching and counseling to executives and people leaders to enhance leadership effectiveness and team performance.
• Build leadership capability through cultivating a culture of feedback & learning, development planning and overall talent growth and development.
• Provide strategic and day-to-day best in class performance management guidance to business leaders.
• Collaborate with other HR Business Partners and HR colleagues & business leaders to develop and implement programs and policies.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and provide expert guidance on employee relations matters and conflict resolution.
• Partner closely with the broader business operations teams internally to ensure programs, processes, and systems align with business goals.
• Seek out and analyze trends and metrics in collaboration with the broader HR team to develop solutions, programs and policies.
• Lead cross-functional HR initiatives & projects and mentor junior team members.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Typically 15+ years of experience with 10+ years of Human Resources experience.
• Significant HR Business Partner experience supporting complex organizations, such as Commercial.
• Proven ability to thrive in a high-growth, fast-paced commercial stage environment.
• Consistently embody and role model Beam’s company values & leadership behaviors.
• Proven ability to develop high levels of credibility and strong relationships with internal and external partners and vendors.
• Willingness to proactively identify issues and opportunities in the business and make the appropriate recommendations, and/or take appropriate action to get things done.
• Critical thinking skills with the ability to research and analyze data drawn from multiple sources to make effective recommendations.
• High energy level, enthusiastic, positive, upbeat, “can-do” attitude and a sense of humor.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Exemplary communication ability, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively communicate and influence across all levels of the organization.
• Effective coaching skills to develop senior leaders and improve business performance.

About the company

Beam Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to establishing the leading, fully integrated platform for precision genetic medicines. The company uses base editing technology to advance a diversified portfolio of base editing programs.