VP Global Strategic HR Business Partner (all genders)

We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded HR leader to partner with our Chief Financial Officer and Commercial leadership team in driving organisational transformation across Finance Procurement IT and Commercial functions.

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 strategies.

• Lead 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 Youll Be Doing

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and Commercial leadership.

• Translate business priorities into practical people strategies.

• Influence 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 optimisation.

• Lead 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 initiatives.

• Build 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 Youll 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 organisations.

• Significant 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 initiatives.

• Strong commercial and financial acumen.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence senior executives.

• Experience working in matrixed global organisations.

Why 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 organisation.

You 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 application.

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ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy Evotec considers with equal competences all applications including people with disabilities.

Required Experience:

Exec

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1