Senior Director – HR COEs, Global Talent Management (Anywhere in Europe)

Viatris; Madrid; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Viatris is seeking a Senior Director – HR COEs, Global Talent Management to shape enterprise talent strategies, advance performance management, and lead the design and execution of global talent solutions. This role partners with HR Business Partners and business leaders to drive a high-performance culture and data-driven talent practices.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution in a matrix environment, with remote flexibility and up to 25% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field.
• HR leadership experience in large global and matrixed organizations.
• Experience operating at Senior Director level and partnering with enterprise colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end global talent and performance management strategies.
• Embed a high-performance culture across the enterprise and leverage analytics for decision making.
• Partner with HR Business Partners and leaders to translate strategy into scalable talent practices.
• Drive digital modernization of talent management and use of Workday.

Skills

HR leadership

Talent management

Organizational development

Change leadership

HR technology

Workday experience

Global/matrix environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree in HR/OD

HR Certification

Tools

Workday

HR analytics tools

Job description

McDermott Laboratories Limited

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.

This posting supports ongoing hiring needs and may be used to consider candidates for upcoming opportunities.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach, and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference, and here’s how the Senior Director – HR COEs, Global Talent Management role will make an impact:

The Senior Director – HR COEs, Global Talent Management is a key enterprise leader within the Talent COE, responsible for shaping and embedding a high-performance culture and leading adoption and focus on enterprise-wide talent strategies. This role leads the strategy, design, and continuous evolution of global talent and performance management, bringing forward actionable insights to inform decision-making and drive measurable business impact. The Senior Director oversees the end-to-end development of talent solutions—from research and design through implementation and optimization.

As a core member of the Global Talent COE, this leader partners closely with HR Business Partners and business leaders to translate enterprise strategy into scalable, data-driven talent practices. These efforts strengthen organizational effectiveness, enhance agility, and build critical capabilities across functions and geographies. The role also collaborates with People Solutions, HR Technology, and analytics teams to enable disciplined execution, leverage insights, and modernize talent management through digital solutions.

This role combines strategic leadership with hands‑on execution, operating effectively in complex, matrixed environments and driving change at scale.

High-Performance Culture & Talent Strategy

• Lead and embed a global high-performance culture by integrating performance management, accountability capability building and engagement across the employee lifecycle.
• Define clear enterprise talent philosophy, standards, expectations and priorities aligned to enterprise strategic imperatives
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HRBPs, Talent Partners, and management on talent, performance and organizational health, and a variety of current and next stage talent focused initiatives.
• Leads the evolution of a digitally enabled, analytics-driven talent ecosystem, ensuring platforms such as Workday are fully leveraged to drive a high-performance culture and future‑ready workforce.

Talent & Performance Management

• Leads the end‑to‑end design and evolution of global talent management practices, including:
• Performance management and goal setting
• Talent review and calibration
• Succession and talent pools identification
• Career progression and progression frameworks
• Skills and capabilities frameworks, reskilling and upskilling best practices
• Ensure talent programs are designed with the constituent experience lens
• Leverage talent analytics to drive focus, and continuously improve talent outcomes

Organizational Effectiveness & Development

• Partner with HRBPs to improve team and organizational performance and effectiveness through practical frameworks and interventions.
• Diagnose organizational needs and implement targeted solutions that enhance clarity, speed and effectiveness.
• Enable HR Business Partner strategic talent focuses

Talent Development & Succession

• Define and oversee a global development strategy that builds talent pipelines at all levels.
• Align talent development with future capability needs and enterprise priorities.
• Ensure robust assessment, calibration, and succession processes for critical roles.
• Partners closely with Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development to ensure the skills and capabilities forecast is synced with talent management and workforce planning.

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or related field is preferred. HR Certification in is preferred.
• Proven progressive HR leadership experience, with deep expertise in talent management, organizational effectiveness, and leadership development within large, global and matrixed organizations.
• Experience operating at Senior Director level and partnering with enterprise colleagues at all levels, across a variety of functions and talent levels.
• Demonstrated success as an HRBP is required and COE is preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading the design through optimization lifecycles of scalable talent and organization effectiveness solutions across geographies and functions.
• Strong system‑thinking, HR technology and analytical capability; ability to translate data and insights into practical, business‑aligned solutions.
• Proven change leadership, with the ability to influence without authority and drive adoption in complex and agile business environments.
• Experience in pharma, life sciences, healthcare or similarly regulated, global industries strongly preferred; relevant experience from other multinational sectors also valued.
• Experience in leading talent management focus in modern, HR technology enabled environments is preferred, Workday experience is ideal.
• Role offers remote flexibility with preference for candidates on US East Coast or Europe and may require travel to various sites, including internationally, up to approximately 25% of time.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

• At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits, and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives, and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.
• You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work‑life balance initiatives.
• At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare, not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity, and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.