Sr. Director, HRBP, Search, Portfolio & Commercial Development

Position Overview:

The Senior Director, Global HR Business Partner (HRBP) is a key leader within the functional leadership team, accountable for delivering HR initiatives that drive business results and reinforce a values-based culture. This senior role partners with business leaders to address complex organisational challenges, ensuring people solutions align with both enterprise and functional goals. The Senior Director, Global HRBP sets the strategic direction for HR practices, ensuring the organisation remains competitive, future-ready, and aligned with its values and business objectives.

Reporting Relationships:

Reporting to the Vice President, Human Resources, or Executive Director, Human Resources, this role is a core member of the functional leadership team and collaborates closely with HR Centres of Excellence (COEs), HR teams, and global business executives. The scope of the role is enterprise-wide, with responsibility for leading high-impact initiatives and influencing at the most senior levels.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Implements the HR strategy from the enterprise business segment. Impact is enterprise-wide or covers the most complex, regulated, or innovative business groups.

• Key contributor to the overall CSL People Strategy, bringing a vision for the specific Business Area People Strategy and a clear plan on how to deliver against it.

• Formulate and implement a comprehensive workforce management strategy.

• Acts as an executive coach to senior leaders, supporting their personal and professional development.

• Represents business interests across HR, acting as an effective broker of services across the HR Model – with a focus on shared outcomes and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with all HR teams to ensure consistent application of global HR policies, procedures, and initiatives, whilst adapting to local legal and cultural requirements.

• Lead and support organisational change programmes, including restructures, mergers, and acquisitions, ensuring effective communication and stakeholder engagement.

• Champion a culture of inclusion, wellbeing, and high performance by developing and delivering relevant initiatives and training programmes.

• Analyse HR metrics and data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities; present findings to senior leadership and recommend action plans.

• The focus is on improving overall business performance through best-in-class  Talent Management, Succession planning and Leadership Development.

• Support leadership development and succession planning activities, identifying high-potential talent and facilitating career development initiatives.

• Drive the implementation of global reward and recognition programmes, aligning them with business strategy and ensuring local relevance.

• Act as a culture ambassador, promoting the organisation’s values and vision across global locations.

Key Relationships:

• Reports to: Vice President, HR or Executive Director, HR.

• Direct reports: May include Global HRBPs or HRBP Site Leads.

• Works closely with: Executive leadership, functional leadership teams, HR Centres of Excellence, regional and local HR colleagues, Finance, IT, Communications, Legal and external partners as required

The role requires significant collaboration and influencing of senior stakeholders, both internally and externally, across multiple geographies and cultures.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field; master’s degree or Human Resource professional qualification preferred.

• Minimum 12–15 years’ progressive HR experience, including significant experience in global HR Business Partnering.

• Recognised thought leader in HR and the business group’s domain.

• Proven track record of leading HR within a highly complex, regulated, or innovative business environment, ideally within pharmaceuticals, biotech, life sciences, or a similarly complex global sector.

• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver enterprise-wide HR strategies and large-scale organisational transformation.

• Strong expertise in workforce planning.

• Advanced skills in HR analytics and data-driven decision making.

• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills at executive level.

• International HR experience, with strong understanding of employment law, regulation, and cultural nuances across regions.

Key Competencies:

• Business Strategy & Commercial acumen - outcome-driven with measurable KPIs.

• Leadership Development and Workforce Planning.

• Business and Cultural Transformation – core behavioral change management understanding with business transformation capability.

• Senior Stakeholder Management – building networks and relationships with the business and across the enterprise.

• Data & Insights driven - leveraging real-time insights for smarter decisions.

• Global mindset and cultural agility.

• Relationship building, collaboration, and influencing.

• Change leadership and agility in complex, ambiguous environments.

• Analytical mindset with proven ability to leverage data and insights.

• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

• Integrity, discretion, and a commitment to confidentiality.

• Resilience and adaptability.

Competencies reflect the Level 10/Senior Director expectations as outlined in the enterprise career framework.

Location & Travel:

This is a global role, based in any major company location, with a requirement for regular international travel to company sites and business meetings. The postholder should be co-located in the same country/hemisphere as the Leader. They must demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to operate effectively across time zones and cultures.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.

You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.