HR Solutions Partner

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca, in Ireland, seeks an experienced HR professional to serve as a trusted advisor to senior managers. You will coach leaders, orchestrate workforce planning, and drive process improvements with AI-enabled HR practices.

You will partner with HRBPs, HR Services and CoEs to deliver a seamless One HR experience and strengthen leadership capability. You will manage talent reviews, workforce data, and stakeholder relationships while enabling inclusive leadership and high performance across

Qualifications

• Coaches managers on day-to-day workforce concerns.
• Skilled at interpreting HR policy and guiding managers appropriately.
• Capable of delivering defined HR projects and activities as part of a team.
• Builds relationships quickly across the organisation and maintains strong communication.
• Differentiated skill in using digital platforms, optimising processes and generating data-driven insights.
• Identifies improvement opportunities and implements innovative enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Generalist HR Partnership: Provide timely policy interpretation, coaching and advice to managers, enabling sound decisions on performance, attendance, reward and talent matters.
• People Cycles Execution: Deliver performance, reward, talent forums and data submissions with accuracy and consistency, ensuring smooth annual and mid-year cycles for assigned areas.
• Operational HR Navigation: Resolve manager queries, guide case navigation and apply HR frameworks consistently to reduce risk and improve manager confidence.
• Employee Relations Case Management: Manage ER cases outside the risk-based model, coaching managers and escalating appropriately as risk profiles change.
• Talent and Reward Delivery: Manage talent appointments and off-requisition offers; prepare people insights for talent reviews and workforce planning to strengthen pipelines and succession.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Gather inputs, prepare data and actions, and partner with HRBPs to operationalise plans that align capability and capacity with future demand.
• People Insights and Reporting: Provide accurate data, dashboards and commentary to inform decisions, highlighting workforce risks, themes and trends that matter.
• Process Simplification and Digital Optimisation: Identify and implement opportunities to streamline workflows; support adoption of global tools and AI-enabled processes to increase speed and quality.
• Enterprise Offerings Adoption: Contextualise L&D, Inclusion & Diversity, Reward, Talent and Wellbeing offerings for the business area; drive manager and team uptake.
• Learning, Inclusion and Leadership Development: Translate enterprise programs into functional plans; coach managers to uplift capability and inclusive leadership.
• Team Effectiveness Facilitation: Lead or facilitate team effectiveness interventions, culture discussions and engagement sessions below leadership team level.
• One HR Collaboration: Work closely with HRBPs, HR Services, CoEs and other Solutions colleagues to ensure a connected, consistent experience for leaders and teams.
• Stakeholder Relationship Building: Build deep understanding of the business and become a trusted partner for senior managers and a reliable connector into HR expertise.

Skills

Coaching & Manager Support

Advanced Stakeholder Management

HR Process & Policy Interpretation

Project Delivery & Execution

Stakeholder Communication

Advanced Digital, Data & Insights

Process Improvement

Workforce Insights

HR Discipline Knowledge

Learning Agility

Tools

Workday

Data Visualisation Tools

Job description

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to turn people insights into decisions that help leaders excel and improve outcomes for patients? Join a global HR team where your expertise in coaching, process excellence and digital enablement directly strengthens our mission to serve people living with rare and devastating diseases.

As a trusted advisor, you will equip managers to lead confidently, simplify how work gets done and embed AI-enabled and data-driven HR practices. You will report to a Global HR Solutions Manager and work day to day with Global HR Business Partners, HR Services and Centers of Expertise to deliver a seamless “One HR” experience that accelerates business performance.

Do you thrive on moving from a senior leader coaching conversation to orchestrating workforce planning and then to unlocking a process improvement, all in the same day? In this role, you will connect enterprise offerings to local needs, build capability across teams, and help shape a culture where inclusion, learning and high performance go hand in hand.

Accountabilities:

• Generalist HR Partnership: Provide timely policy interpretation, coaching and advice to managers, enabling sound decisions on performance, attendance, reward and talent matters.


• People Cycles Execution: Deliver performance, reward, talent forums and data submissions with accuracy and consistency, ensuring smooth annual and mid-year cycles for assigned areas.


• Operational HR Navigation: Resolve manager queries, guide case navigation and apply HR frameworks consistently to reduce risk and improve manager confidence.


• Employee Relations Case Management: Manage ER cases outside the risk-based model, coaching managers and escalating appropriately as risk profiles change.


• Talent and Reward Delivery: Manage talent appointments and off-requisition offers; prepare people insights for talent reviews and workforce planning to strengthen pipelines and succession.


• Strategic Workforce Planning: Gather inputs, prepare data and actions, and partner with HRBPs to operationalise plans that align capability and capacity with future demand.


• People Insights and Reporting: Provide accurate data, dashboards and commentary to inform decisions, highlighting workforce risks, themes and trends that matter.


• Process Simplification and Digital Optimisation: Identify and implement opportunities to streamline workflows; support adoption of global tools and AI-enabled processes to increase speed and quality.


• Enterprise Offerings Adoption: Contextualise L&D, Inclusion & Diversity, Reward, Talent and Wellbeing offerings for the business area; drive manager and team uptake.


• Learning, Inclusion and Leadership Development: Translate enterprise programs into functional plans; coach managers to uplift capability and inclusive leadership.


• Team Effectiveness Facilitation: Lead or facilitate team effectiveness interventions, culture discussions and engagement sessions below leadership team level.


• One HR Collaboration: Work closely with HRBPs, HR Services, CoEs and other Solutions colleagues to ensure a connected, consistent experience for leaders and teams.


• Stakeholder Relationship Building: Build deep understanding of the business and become a trusted partner for senior managers and a reliable connector into HR expertise.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Coaching & Manager Support: Able to coach managers on day-to-day workforce concerns.


• Advanced Stakeholder Management: Accomplished in managing and influencing senior leaders and HR leaders.


• HR Process & Policy Interpretation: Skilled at interpreting HR policy and guiding managers appropriately.


• Project Delivery & Execution: Capable of delivering defined HR projects and activities as part of a team.


• Stakeholder Communication & Relationship Building: Builds relationships quickly across the organisation and maintains strong communication.


• Advanced Digital, Data & Insights Capability: Differentiated skill in using digital platforms, optimising processes and generating data-driven insights.


• Process Improvement: Identifies improvement opportunities and implements innovative enhancements.


• Workforce Insights: Skilled at generating, interpreting and presenting workforce insights to support decision-making.


• HR Discipline Knowledge: Skilled in at least one HR discipline (ER, Reward, Talent, etc.).


• Learning Agility: Sharp learner with willingness to apply new knowledge; comfortable with ambiguity and pace.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience supporting leaders in highly regulated or science-led industries.


• Proficiency with Workday or similar HCM systems and data visualisation tools.


• Practical experience deploying AI-enabled HR processes and automation.


• Strong ER casework exposure across multiple jurisdictions.


• Certification in coaching, change management or facilitation.


• Hands-on involvement with strategic workforce planning frameworks and scenario modelling.


• Proven ability to design and run team effectiveness and culture workshops.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, purpose meets action. You will join a patient-driven, inclusive community that combines the agility of biotech with the scale of a global biopharma, where unexpected teams gather in the same room to unleash bold thinking. We value kindness alongside ambition, and we invest in the tools, data and learning that help you turn insight into impact. Your work will help leaders make better people decisions, build stronger teams and ultimately reach individuals and families waiting for meaningful change.

Date Posted

09-Sep-2026

Closing Date

22-Sep-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.