Senior Director - HR COEs, Global Talent Management (Anywhere in Europe)

McDermott Laboratories Limited Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases. We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making. This posting supports ongoing hiring needs and may be used to consider candidates for upcoming opportunities. Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach, and better access to treatment. For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference, and here's how the Senior Director - HR COEs, Global Talent Management role will make an impact: The Senior Director - HR COEs, Global Talent Management is a key enterprise leader within the Talent COE, responsible for shaping and embedding a high-performance culture and leading adoption and focus on enterprise-wide talent strategies. This role leads the strategy, design, and continuous evolution of global talent and performance management, bringing forward actionable insights to inform decision‑making and drive measurable business impact. The Senior Director oversees the end‑to‑end development of talent solutions-from research and design through implementation and optimization. As a core member of the Global Talent COE, this leader partners closely with HR Business Partners and business leaders to translate enterprise strategy into scalable, data‑driven talent practices. These efforts strengthen organizational effectiveness, enhance agility, and build critical capabilities across functions and geographies. The role also collaborates with People Solutions, HR Technology, and analytics teams to enable disciplined execution, leverage insights, and modernise talent management through digital solutions. This role combines strategic leadership with hands‑on execution, operating effectively in complex, matrixed environments and driving change at scale.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• High-Performance Culture & Talent Strategy Lead and embed a global high‑performance culture by integrating performance management, accountability capability building and engagement across the employee lifecycle. Define clear enterprise talent philosophy, standards, expectations and priorities aligned to enterprise strategic imperatives Serve as a trusted advisor to HRBPs, Talent Partners, and management on talent, performance and organisational health, and a variety of current and next stage talent focused initiatives. Leads the evolution of a digitally enabled, analytics‑driven talent ecosystem, ensuring platforms such as Workday are fully leveraged to drive a high‑performance culture and future‑ready workforce.
• Talent & Performance Management Leads the end‑to‑end design and evolution of global talent management practices, including: Performance management and goal setting Talent review and calibration Succession and talent pools identification Career progression and progression frameworks Skills and capabilities frameworks, reskilling and up‑skilling best practices Ensure talent programmes are designed with the constituent experience lens Leverage talent analytics to drive focus, and continuously improve talent outcomes
• Organizational Effectiveness & Development Partner with HRBPs to improve team and organisational performance and effectiveness through practical frameworks and interventions. Diagnose organisational needs and implement targeted solutions that enhance clarity, speed and effectiveness. Enable HR Business Partner strategic talent focuses.
• Talent Development & Succession Define and oversee a global development strategy that builds talent pipelines at all levels. Align talent development with future capability needs and enterprise priorities. Ensure robust assessment, calibration, and succession processes for critical roles. Partners closely with Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development to ensure the skills and capabilities forecast is synced with talent management and workforce planning.

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

Bachelor's degree

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