Global HR Transformation and M&A Leader
Primary specialism: HR Business Partner
Markets with deep expertise: United States and United Kingdom
Languages : English
Salary expectations: From $225,000 USD ($375,000 USD including bonuses and LTI)
Workforce types directly supported: Executive and senior leadership populations and scientific and R&D populations.
Current home country: USA
Mobility Considerations: Home country only
Current/recent employer: Global bio-pharmaceutical company with over 90,000 employees and over $50 billion dollars in revenue in 2025.
Remits of particular interest: Senior Director and above roles focused on enterprise transformation, mergers and acquisitions integration, strategic execution, workforce strategy, or organizational scaling. Particularly interested in roles where I can help determine what the organization should do and then drive the work through execution, rather than roles primarily focused on implementing decisions already made. I am strongest in ambiguous, high-stakes environments where the organization needs someone to connect strategy, people, governance, operating model, and execution. I am particularly interested in transformation and integration mandates where sustainable organizational performance and culture are both important to the value creation equation.
Unique expertise: I combine deep HR expertise with experience at the intersection of M&A, enterprise transformation, strategic execution, and financial value creation. I have integrated companies, led enterprise transformations, and made high-stakes workforce and leadership decisions tied to significant financial outcomes. I excel in situations where the answer does not already exist; identifying the real problem, building the system to address it, aligning stakeholders, and turning ambiguity into executable action. I bring a combination of human-capital financial judgement, connecting people decisions directly to business outcomes.
Commerciality: I have consistently delivered large-scale organizational initiatives tied directly to enterprise value creation. Most recently, I supported a global HR operating-model restructuring involving approximately 2,000 redesigned jobs and a $265 million USD global value case. I led the finalization of a regional HR structure, ultimately aligning 750 roles with the business strategy and capturing $33 million USD in annualized savings. My approach combines workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, and financial discipline to ensure transformational change delivers measurable business outcomes.
Strengths: I can enter a complex, ambiguous situation, identify what is actually driving the business problem, and architect a practical path forward. I am particularly strong at challenging senior stakeholders constructively and moving between enterprise strategy and execution detail without losing sight of either. I have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to influence senior leaders without relying on formal authority, particularly when the right answer requires challenging an established direction.
Need to know: My USP is strategic problem-solving through the lens of human capital. I start with the business challenge (not the HR solution) and determine what needs to change to achieve the desired outcome. This allows me to understand the enterprise problem, assess the human-capital implications, architect the solution, and drive it through execution across M&A, transformation, scaling, and complex change.
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CMTS reference: 73711