VP Global Strategic HR Business Partner (all genders)
This is a high-impact strategic HR Business Partner role supporting approximately 700 employees across multiple international locations. You will play a key role in designing future-ready organisations, enabling large-scale transformation, and ensuring our people strategy directly supports business performance and operational excellence.
If you thrive in complex, fast-paced environments and enjoy partnering with senior executives to solve business challenges, we would like to hear from you.
Your Impact
As the strategic HR partner to the CFO organisation and Commercial functions, you will:Partner directly with senior leaders across Finance, Procurement, IT, and Commercial to shape business and people organisational design and Target Operating Model (TOM) initiatives that improve effectiveness, scalability, and governance.
Drive transformation programmes with a strong focus on Procurement and IT operating model evolution.
Develop workforce strategies that build future capabilities in digital, analytics, finance, and strategic sourcing.
Enable leadership teams through coaching, organisational effectiveness, and change management.
Align talent, succession, learning, and reward strategies with business priorities.
Use data and workforce analytics to guide organisational decisions and measure transformation success.
Collaborate across HR Centres of Excellence to deliver integrated, high-impact people solutions.
What You'll Be Doing
Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and Commercial leadership.
Translate business priorities into practical people leadership decisions through data-driven insights and strategic guidance.
Support organisational growth, performance, and capability development.
Design and implement future operating models across Finance, Procurement, and IT.
Drive organisational redesign, role clarity, governance, and workforce change initiatives that improve agility, collaboration, and operational excellence.
Support the evolution of enabling functions into strategic business partners.
Develop long-term workforce plans aligned with business objectives.
Lead succession planning and leadership development capabilities required for future business success.
Partner with Talent, Reward, Learning, and HR Operations to deliver integrated solutions.
Establish meaningful people metrics linked to business outcomes.
Support productivity, cost optimisation, and organisational effectiveness.
Partner closely with Finance to align workforce investment with financial priorities.
What You'll Bring
You are a strategic HR leader who understands how enabling functions create business value.
You bring:Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related discipline. MBA or postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
Several years of progressive HR Business Partner experience within complex international experience partnering with CFO organisations or corporate enabling functions such as Finance, Procurement, or IT.
Proven success leading organisational design, operating model, and transformation programmes.
Experience supporting finance, procurement, digital, or technology transformation commercial and financial acumen.
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence senior executives.
Experience working in matrixed, global Join Us?
This role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of the business, partnering with executive leaders to shape the future of our global will influence enterprise-wide transformation, modernise enabling functions, and help build an organisation that is scalable, high performing, and ready for the future.
If you are passionate about organisational transformation, leadership partnership, and creating lasting business impact through people, we would welcome your : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.
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Summary
Location: Hamburg; Verona; Toulouse
Type: Full time