Acadia Pharmaceuticals Executive Director, People Business Partnership at Acadia Pharmaceuticals leading the People Business Partner team and advising business and P&P leadership. Translates business strategy into workforce and talent priorities.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop Acadia’s People Business Partner team, setting clear expectations, building capability and ensuring consistent, high-quality support to leaders.
Develop a deep understanding of Acadia’s strategy, growth priorities and operating environment, and translate them into workforce, organization, leadership and talent implications.
Serve as a senior advisor to business and P&P leaders on organization effectiveness, workforce planning, leadership, talent, culture and significant organizational change.
Guide PBPs in creating focused people plans linked to business priorities and measurable organizational outcomes.
Partner with leaders to identify the capabilities, roles, structures and talent required to deliver current priorities and prepare for future growth.
Build a forward-looking workforce planning approach that informs where to build, buy, deploy or access critical capabilities.
Lead organization design and effectiveness work involving structures, roles, governance, decision-making and ways of working.
Partner with Talent Management and leaders to strengthen succession, talent planning, leadership pipelines and future capabilities.
Strengthen leadership effectiveness through trusted advice, coaching, organizational insights and practical support.
Enable organizational change by clarifying the business rationale, assessing workforce impacts, building leadership alignment and sustaining adoption.
Support complex and consequential people matters with Employee Relations, Legal and other specialists to ensure balanced, compliant and business-oriented decisions.
Partner with P&P Centers of Excellence and Operations to create scalable solutions, tools, processes and insights that improve the manager and employee experience.
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in human resourcesAbility to use workforce dataExceptional executive communicationCompetitive baseMedical
Required
Effective organizational change and stronger leadership capability across the business.
Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development or a related field, with 15+ years of progressive P&P, Human Resources or related leadership experience, including 8+ years leading teams and enterprise-wide people initiatives. An advanced degree is preferred; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Proven experience leading a senior PBP team and advising executive leaders in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare or another highly regulated environment.
Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to translate strategy into workforce, organization, leadership, talent and change priorities.
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 and outcomes.
Experience delivering outcomes through senior business partners, cross-functional teams and Centers of Excellence, while clarifying operating-model accountabilities and shifting transactional work to the appropriate channels.
Sound judgment in complex people matters, with working knowledge of employment law, employee relations, performance management and organizational risk.
Exceptional executive communication, coaching, facilitation, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills; demonstrated ability to build accountable, inclusive and collaborative teams.
Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. Ability to travel up to 25%, primarily within the United States.
Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages