VP, Head of People & Culture

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnership & Enterprise Leadership

• Partner with the CEO and Executive Team to define and execute a people strategy that enables FMI's business objectives, growth ambitions, and organizational priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and Executive Team on talent, culture, organizational effectiveness, leadership, and enterprise transformation.
• Shape and evolve the organization's culture, ensuring it reflects FMI's values and supports high performance, accountability, innovation, and collaboration.
• Co-lead enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, ensuring organizational structures, capabilities, leadership, and culture evolve to support FMI's strategic priorities.
• Partner with the CEO and Executive Team to anticipate future workforce and organizational capability needs, helping shape FMI's approach to AI, automation, and evolving ways of working to ensure long-term success.
• Use organizational and talent strategies to strengthen business performance, accelerate execution, improve leadership effectiveness, and enable sustainable growth.

Talent, Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness

• Lead organizational design and workforce planning efforts to ensure FMI is positioned to scale effectively and meet future business needs.
• Create and implement talent strategies that attract, develop, engage, and retain exceptional talent.
• Drive leadership development initiatives that build strong leaders and strengthen succession pipelines across the organization.
• Establish robust talent review and succession planning processes, including development opportunities across the Roche network where appropriate.

People & Culture Strategy

• Define and execute a forward-looking People & Culture roadmap that supports FMI's evolving business and workforce needs.
• Ensure compensation, benefits, and recognition programs remain competitive, equitable, and aligned with the company's strategy and values.
• Champion an inclusive, high-performing culture where employees can contribute, grow, and succeed.
• Leverage data and workforce insights to inform decision-making, identify trends, and continuously improve organizational effectiveness.

People Operations & Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing People & Culture team, fostering excellence, business partnership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure delivery of best-in-class people programs, systems, and processes that effectively support employees and leaders across the organization.
• Maintain a strong focus on operational excellence, scalability, compliance, and employee experience.
• Lead enterprise-wide people initiatives and change management efforts that strengthen FMI's culture and organizational capability.
• Comply with FMI's attendance policies.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 15+ years of progressive Human Resources, People & Culture, Talent, or related leadership experience, including experience leading senior HR/People teams.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a strategic advisor to CEOs and executive leadership teams, influencing enterprise-level decisions and organizational strategy.
• Experience leading organizational design, talent management, leadership development, succession planning, and culture initiatives in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale organizational change and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people strategies to organizational priorities and outcomes.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MBA, Master's, or other relevant graduate degree).
• Experience in biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, or another highly regulated and innovation-driven industry.
• Track record of serving as a strategic business partner to CEOs and executive leadership teams.
• Experience supporting organizations through periods of rapid growth, transformation, integration, or organizational change.
• Demonstrated success building leadership capabilities and strengthening organizational effectiveness at scale.
• Experience working within a global organization and navigating complex matrix environments.
• Passion for advancing a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, collaboration, and innovation.
• Experience supporting executive succession planning, leadership transitions, and organizational transformation.
• Understanding of HIPAA and the importance of patient data privacy.
• Commitment to reflect FMI's values: Integrity, Courage, and Passion.
• Proven expertise in strategic workforce planning, with a strong understanding of how AI, automation, and emerging technologies shape organizational design and talent strategy.