Lead Director, HR Business Partner – Aetna Finance

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Position Summary

The Lead Director, HR Business Partner, serves as the primary strategic HR advisor to Aetna’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Aetna Finance Leadership Team, playing a critical role in shaping the organization, leadership, and workforce capabilities of the Aetna Finance function.

This role partners closely with both Aetna Finance and HR leadership to shape, translate, and evolve people and workforce priorities for Aetna Finance, aligning overall Finance people direction with the unique needs of the segment.

This role is accountable for advancing and delivering Finance people priorities by attracting, developing, and retaining top talent; optimizing organization design and operating models; enabling leadership and succession readiness; and driving effective change adoption.

The Lead Director reports to the AVP, Finance HR Business Partner and leads the HR Business Partners supporting Aetna Finance sub-functions, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery of people outcomes across the Aetna Finance function.

Major Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to Aetna Finance executive leaders, enabling informed decisions on talent, workforce effectiveness, and organizational design in support of evolving business and financial priorities.

• Build strong talent pipelines and succession readiness for critical Finance roles through effective selection, onboarding, development, internal mobility, and rigorous performance management, compensation, and recognition practices.

• Partner with Aetna Finance leaders to design and evolve efficient and effective organization structures and operating models, translating business strategy into workforce plans that balance capability, capacity, productivity, and cost.

• Leverage workforce, organization, and talent insights to identify risks, inform strategy, and drive measurable improvements in engagement, retention, and performance within the Aetna segment.

• Own the quality, rigor, and consistency of annual people processes across Aetna Finance, including performance management, calibration, talent reviews, compensation planning, and promotion decisions.

• Partner across HR Centers of Excellence to integrate enterprise programs and solutions in support of Aetna Finance priorities, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards while meeting segment needs.

• Lead, coach, and develop a small team of HR Business Partners, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution of talent programs and people processes across aligned Finance teams.

• Partner across the Finance HR team to ensure alignment and consistency of talent practices across segments.

• Champion adoption of AI-enabled tools, digital capabilities, and Finance optimization efforts, supporting leaders and colleagues through change and fostering an adaptable, change-capable organization.

Role Success

The Lead Director, HR Business Partner is successful when:

• Aetna Finance leadership team has a clear, aligned view of the future‑state organization and a credible plan to put the right talent in the right roles over time to meet business and financial objectives.

• Critical Aetna Finance roles have identified credible successors with meaningful development plans.

• Finance leaders receive people recommendations based on a strong understanding of all areas of Human Resources, appropriately leveraging CoE colleagues.

• Engagement and retention of key talent are stable or improving.

• Aetna Finance leadership team views HR as a strategic enabler, not a compliance function.

• Aetna Finance leaders (minimally VP+) understand how to navigate HR processes and when to engage their HR Business Partner.

• People decisions and processes are clear and executed with quality, rigor, and consistency across the Finance organization.

• HRBPs on the team operate credibly and independently with senior leaders.

Required Qualifications

• Min. 10 years of relevant work experience.

• Min. 2 years of experience serving as a strategic Partner to senior executive leaders, with demonstrated ability to influence and advise at the SVP/C-suite +1 level.

• Min. 2 years of people leader