HR Site Lead, Enterprise Team (On-Site)

MSD; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 129,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

MSD is seeking an Enterprise Team HR site lead for the Wilmington Biotech facility. The role partners with GBO and R&D to shape talent and diversity strategy, workforce planning and organizational design as the site stands up.

The position will initially be on-site in 2027 and will work with the site lead, project leads, and GTA partners to build culture and organizational capabilities. The ETHR partner will serve on the Wilmington Biotech Senior Leadership Team and provide executive coaching,

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree, or currently in pursuit of degree completion in human resources, business or a related discipline
• Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive HR or closely related business experience
• Demonstrated HR functional competence in one or more HR disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to effectively influence, consult with and coach leaders and managers
• Demonstrated capability leveraging data analytics and HR systems to provide relevant insights and consultation to the business leadership team
• Ability to strategically prioritize time and problem solve against most impactful activities and initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to demonstrate and foster collaboration among peers and extended HR organization
• Change Management or Organization Transformation experience
• Demonstrated experience in organization development such as organization design, change management, workforce planning preferred
• Experience in supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply preferred
• Knowledge of employment legal practices and policies, experience strengthening positive employee relations and building manager and HR capability preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic HR and executive coaching support to site lead
• Drive the talent and diversity strategy for the assigned organization in partnership with respective COE leaders
• Support all talent management, organizational design and organizational alignment activities within client group(s). Lead client restructuring activities when necessary. Contribute to organizational change management activities when necessary
• Coach senior leadership teams to successfully manage all cyclical people management processes (talent management, succession planning, performance management, compensation planning, etc.)
• Partner with the learning & development organization on learning strategies and solutions to support and enable talent strategy
• Partner with talent acquisition organization on activities in support of the organization’s workforce plan and talent strategy
• Provide leadership and project management to critical HR initiatives across the client organization as needed
• Proactively collaborate across the HR network and with other stakeholders across the organization to resolve escalated issues and generate solutions to enable client’s business strategy
• Drive a culture of inclusion, performance, results and positive employee relations
• Drive consistency in employee and manager experience and talent movement across the organization

Skills

Benefits Administration

Change Management

Compensation Strategies

HRIS

HR Analytics

Recruiting Processes

Diversity and Inclusion

Employee Development

Customer Communications

Confidential Data Handling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in HR / Business or related

Tools

HRIS

Job description

MSD is seeking an Enterprise Team HR site lead for the Wilmington Biotech facility. The role partners with GBO and R&D to shape talent and diversity strategy, workforce planning and organizational design as the site stands up.

The position will initially be on-site in 2027 and will work with the site lead, project leads, and GTA partners to build culture and organizational capabilities. The ETHR partner will serve on the Wilmington Biotech Senior Leadership Team and provide executive coaching,