Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner

Job title: Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner

About the Role The Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner is a key leader responsible for shaping and delivering the people strategy across critical enterprise functions. This role partners directly with senior executives to advance Moderna’s mission by evolving how work gets done, ensuring the organization is designed for focus, agility, and impact. As a trusted advisor to executive leadership, this role drives forward-looking talent and organizational strategies that unlock performance, accelerate innovation, and build the capabilities needed for the future of work.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, shaping organizational design, talent strategy, succession planning, and performance enablement to support Moderna’s long-term ambitions.
• Lead HR strategy for large, complex business areas, driving workforce outcomes that enable speed, innovation, and global scale.
• Translate evolving business and scientific priorities into future-ready people strategies, ensuring the organization has the capabilities required to deliver on its mission.
• Champion work reinvention, reimagining roles, workflows, and team structures to fully leverage AI, automation, and new ways of working.
• Lead complex, enterprise-wide transformation efforts, aligning structure, talent, and ways of working to accelerate impact.
• Drive forward-looking workforce planning, using data, analytics, and AI-driven insights to anticipate capability gaps and inform strategic investments in talent.
• Partner with leaders to embed digital and AI capabilities across the workforce, including reskilling, upskilling, and evolving role design.
• Advance Moderna’s data-driven approach to talent, leveraging people analytics and intelligent tools to inform decision-making and measure impact.
• Collaborate across HR functions to deliver seamless, scalable solutions that support a high-performing, global organization.
• Represent HR in executive forums, shaping enterprise conversations on talent, culture, and the future of work.
• Continuously evolve the HRBP model to be more integrated, tech-enabled, and impact-driven, raising the bar for strategic partnership.
• Actively explore and adopt emerging technologies, including AI, to enhance productivity, decision-making, and employee experience.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing HRBP team.

What We're Looking For

• Strategic advisor to executive leadership with experience shaping organizational design, talent strategy, succession planning, and performance enablement.
• Experience leading HR strategy for large, complex business areas with global scale.
• Ability to translate business and scientific priorities into future-ready people strategies and to ensure required capabilities.
• Track record championing work reinvention, AI, automation, and new ways of working.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide transformation, aligning structure, talent, and ways of working.
• Expertise in workforce planning using data, analytics, and AI-driven insights.
• Ability to partner with leaders to embed digital and AI capabilities, including reskilling and evolving role design.
• Proficiency in data-driven talent decision-making and people analytics.
• Collaboration across HR functions to deliver seamless solutions; working in a global context.
• Experience representing HR in executive forums, shaping talent and culture conversations.
• Comfort operating at the intersection of people, technology, and business transformation.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and development skills for subordinate HRBP teams.