Lead Director, HR Business Partner for HR

CVS Health; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

CVS Health in Hartford, CT seeks a Lead Director, HRBP to partner with senior HR leaders and align talent priorities with business strategy. This role guides talent initiatives, strengthens leadership capability, and drives organizational effectiveness with confidentiality and sound judgment.

You will coach leaders, anticipate talent needs, and deliver core HR processes with discipline. This hybrid role offers comprehensive benefits and opportunities to influence talent strategy enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• 10 years of overall professional work experience
• 5 years of strategic HRBP experience
• 1-2 years in a Director-level HRBP role
• Mastery of problem solving and decision-making
• Mastery of collaboration and teamwork
• Mastery of growth mindset and agility
• Mastery of execution and delivery
• Mastery of business intelligence
• Strong business acumen and linking talent to performance
• Strong strategic thinking and future talent planning
• Strong HR expertise and judgment
• Proven ability to influence and coach leaders
• Ownership and accountability for adopting new ways

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic HRBP to the HR function and align talent priorities with business needs
• Partner with senior leaders to identify key talent levers and prioritize actions
• Build trusted relationships and provide consulting and coaching to leaders
• Apply business acumen to connect talent priorities to outcomes
• Anticipate talent needs and plan for gaps and capability building
• Drive talent strategies to improve colleague experience and engagement
• Strengthen leadership capability and build a talent pipeline for the future
• Support succession, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness
• Diagnose root causes of people issues and recommend actions
• Provide change leadership guidance and help implement change
• Deliver core talent processes with quality and discipline
• Take ownership for outcomes and drive adoption across HR and business teams

Skills

Strategic HRBP

Leadership coaching

Change management

Collaboration

Growth mindset

Execution

Business acumen

Influence & guidance

Problem solving

Organizational effectiveness

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Job description

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

A Brief Overview

The Lead Director, HRBP partners with senior leaders across the HR function to align talent priorities with business strategy and enterprise direction. This role identifies the talent levers that matter most, guides leaders through complex organizational and colleague-related challenges, and ensures talent strategies, processes, and programs have clear impact on colleague experience, leadership effectiveness, and business performance. This role specifically supports HR leaders and teams, serving as an HRBP to the HR function. Supported by Centers of Excellence and other specialized HR partners, this role serves as a strategic advisor by shaping talent priorities, strengthening leadership capability, and driving organizational effectiveness.

As a Business Partner to the HR function, this role operates in a uniquely sensitive environment, requiring exceptional judgment, discretion, credibility, and the ability to navigate complex organizational and colleague matters with confidentiality and objectivity.

What You Will Do

• Serve as a strategic HRBP to the HR function, aligning talent priorities with business needs, enterprise direction, and long-term organizational goals

• Partner with senior leaders to identify the talent levers that matter most and focus the organization on clear, prioritized action

• Build trusted relationships and provide consulting, coaching, and challenge to leaders navigating complex talent and organizational issues

• Apply strong business acumen to understand how value is created and connect talent priorities to business outcomes

• Anticipate current and future talent needs, helping leaders plan for emerging gaps and build organizational capability over time

• Drive strategies and initiatives that strengthen colleague experience, proactively identifying engagement risks and addressing them before they affect business performance

• Strengthen leadership capability by equipping leaders to perform in their current roles while building a pipeline of talent for the future

• Partner on talent strategies that support succession, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and high-performing teams

• Apply broad HR expertise and sound judgment to diagnose root causes of people-related issues and recommend practical, business-aligned actions

• Provide change leadership guidance and help leaders communicate and implement change in ways that foster agility, resilience, and adoption of new ways of working

• Deliver core talent processes with quality and discipline, ensuring programs are executed effectively and have meaningful impact on the function and the broader business

• Take ownership for outcomes, remove barriers, and drive adoption and follow-through across HR and business teams

****This is a hybrid role based out of the Hartford, CT hub. ****

Minimum Requirements

• 10 years of overall professional work experience

• 5 years of strategic Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) experience

• 1-2 years of experience in a Director-level HR Business Partner role, either currently or in a previous position

• Mastery of problem solving and decision-making skills

• Mastery of collaboration and teamwork

• Mastery of growth mindset, including agility and developing self and others

• Mastery of execution and delivery, including planning, delivering, and supporting work

• Mastery of business intelligence

• Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect talent strategy to business performance

• Strong strategic thinking skills, including the ability to anticipate future talent and organizational needs

• Strong HR expertise and judgment, with the ability to diagnose and address complex people issues

• Proven ability to influence, coach, and guide leaders across a complex organization

• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to drive adoption of new ways of working

Education

• Bachelor’s degree preferred and/or specialized training, relevant professional qualification

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$100,000.00 - $231,540.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments (https://learn.bswift.com/cvshealth-mainland) .

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/13/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

CVS Health is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, including Disability/Protected Veteran — committed to diversity in the workplace.