Organizational Effectiveness Partner

About This Role

Reporting to the Head of Talent and Employee Experience, the Organization Effectiveness (OE) Partner is responsible for driving enterprise-wide talent initiatives. Partnering with senior management, the HR Business Partner community, enterprise learning & development, and DE&I/People Relations teams, this role provides organizational development (OD) consulting, career development, team effectiveness, and talent management solutions to increase the overall effectiveness of the organization and its ability to anticipate and navigate talent challenges. In addition to leading enterprise-wide initiatives, this role will be deployed to tackle key functional and cross-functional challenges as needed in support of the business partner community. This role will sit on the Talent and Employee Experience Leadership Team.

This is a Cambridge, MA Hybrid based role.

 

What You'll Do

    Develop and implement tools to be leveraged by the HR Business Partner and/or HR COE community

    Provide consultation to HR Business Partners on complex organizational changes or challenges, offering recommendations re: tools or approach

    Work directly with the executive team and respective HR leadership team to improve effectiveness and efficiency around alignment, direction setting, decision making and communication across functions and regions

    Drive transformation of Biogen's culture through change management processes and tools resulting in a better aligned culture to meet Biogen's current business challenges

    Leverage analytics to understand solution success and inform future delivery

    Design a holistic workforce strategy and plan to drive objectives and desired outcomes of the business short-term, mid-term, and long-term

    Build solutions that are both fit for purpose, and scalable or able to be used by multiple functions (leveraging existing interventions, partnering with the Center to build broader solutions)

    Support the design of field-ready items, and assure strong after-action reviews aligned with continuous improvement objectives

    Partner with the HR Business Partner, or appropriate colleague, to ensure people processes are implemented consistently across the company, and are achieving their desired intent

    Facilitate and lead with the business key organizational redesign and restructuring efforts; ensuring a whole systems approach is taken to enable and sustain the change effort

     Contribute to the design, development and promotion of leadership development programs, processes, systems and tools and implement these on a local level. Programs, processes, systems and tools include:

o    Drive end to end talent management approach and philosophy (e.g. succession planning)

o    Performance planning and assessment

o    Work closely with executives to identify and support high potential talent and support developing individual development plans for high potential talent

o    Consult and collaborate with HR Business Partners, colleagues in OE, and key senior managers to ensure leadership capability is in place to allow functions/units to meet their critical business needs and attain their objectivesBe accountable for building a concrete understanding of Biogen’s stance and efforts around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, as well as integrate DE&I strategies into the talent lifecycle (e.g. talent management, hiring, compensation)Actively participate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, such as Employee Resource Groups programming, to reinforce HR’s commitment to an inclusive, engaging environment