Senior Director, Organizational Effectiveness & Learning

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

As we stand on the brink of our next stage of exponential global growth, our high-performing mid-cap biotech company—renowned for our groundbreaking scientific innovations and exceptional organizational health—seeks a visionary leader to shape the future of our workforce. In a landscape where the pace of business accelerates and complexity intensifies, the Head of Organizational Effectiveness and Learning & Development will play a pivotal role in integrating our existing L&D function with a newly established organizational effectiveness strategy. This is not just a new position; it’s a unique opportunity to craft and implement strategic initiatives that will directly influence our business performance and employee engagement on our journey to the next level of growth and organizational maturity.

 

What will you do?

• Strategy development & implementation:
  • Participate as a key member of the global Human Resources Team to inform the global HR strategy, shape our culture, engage and develop our employees, and drive organizational results
  • Design and implement Blueprint’s global Organizational Effectiveness (OE) strategy and provide guidance and support to team members leading the development and implementation of our global L&D strategy in alignment with Blueprint’s mission and values
• Team leadership:
  • Empower and develop team members by fostering a culture of growth, supporting their career aspirations, and enhancing their impact on the business.
  • Create and manage a sustainable OD & L&D model that defines organizational design, roles, and responsibilities, while also establishing and managing external partnerships and managing the budget.
  • Serve as both a leader and contributor within the team, actively participating in and guiding the execution of projects to ensure effective collaboration and performance.
• Business understanding & integration:
  • Act as a trusted partner to the business by integrating insights on learning, development, and organizational design, ensuring that strategies align with overall business objectives and drive organizational effectiveness.
  • Continuously identify and address learning and organizational effectiveness needs through a systematic approach, leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions and initiate impactful actions.
  • Collaborate with the ED&I Director to enhance and promote a diverse and accessible learning portfolio, while also fostering a psychologically safe organizational environment that values and actively seeks diverse perspectives.
• Driving organizational effectiveness:
  • Partner with leadership and HR Partners to assess, scope, develop, and deploy organizational effectiveness and learning solutions to enhance organizational performance and prepare the workforce for the future, including organizational design and alignment, change management, and continuous process improvement, and talent enablement
  • Establish key performance indicators and metrics to assess organizational health and the impact of organizational effectiveness initiatives, and continuously evolve solutions to maximize impact
  • Drive the development and implementation of strategies that enhance managerial capabilities and leadership skills while leveraging your expertise to provide hands-on coaching and mentorship to empower individual growth throughout the organization
  • Collaborate with Information Systems (IS) to ensure the workforce is skilled up on essential technologies that enable greater productivity and innovation
  • Develop guidance and tools to enable managers to diagnose and address technical skill needs and to enable HRBPs to drive talent priorities within functions and regions more efficiently and consistently

 

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• 12+ years of experience in HR with 5+ in organizational effectiveness as well as learning and development, preferably in a global biotech or high-tech industry, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Bachelor's degree required

 

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Preference for Master's degree in Organizational Development
• Proven expertise in strategic development and organizational design, with a track record of optimizing operating models to drive efficiency and effectiveness across complex organizations
• Extensive experience in creating innovative, scalable global solutions that enhance organizational capabilities and align with strategic business objectives,