{"id":1198939,"url":"https://alion.io/job/astrazeneca-director-hr-business-partner-us-oncology-commercial","title":"Director, HR Business Partner - US Oncology Commercial","company":{"id":13195,"name":"AstraZeneca","domain":"astrazeneca.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/astra-zeneca","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":95,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.6,"repost_share":0.011,"time_to_fill_p50_days":14,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Gaithersburg, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":146411,"max":219616,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":219616},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T19:48:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T23:54:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"HR Business Partner, US Oncology Commercial\nLocation: Gaithersburg, MD\nRole summary\nThe HR Business Partner, US Oncology Commercial will provide strategic and hands-on HR partnership to the five US Oncology commercial franchises: Lung, Breast, I/O, G2 and Heme. The role will partner closely with Franchise Heads and their leadership teams, across both Field and Head-office based populations, to translate business priorities into focused people, organization, capability, and culture plans that support sustained growth, launch excellence, leadership effectiveness and strong commercial execution.\nThis is a commercially embedded HRBP role in a large, complex and fast-growing business. The role requires a strong business partner who can operate confidently with senior commercial leaders, bring structure and insight to people decisions, coach leaders through growth and change, and connect enterprise HR solutions to the specific needs of a dynamic, highly competitive oncology portfolio.\nKey accountabilities\nStrategic business partnering\nPartner with Franchise Heads and commercial leadership teams to shape and deliver people plans aligned to franchise priorities, growth ambitions and evolving business needs.\nTranslate commercial strategy into practical HR priorities across organization design, workforce planning, talent, leadership, culture, performance and change.\nAct as a trusted advisor to franchise leaders, bringing constructive challenge, data-led insight and pragmatic judgment to business and people decisions.\nBuild strong relationships across the US OBU, HR Centers of Excellence and broader HR network to bring the right expertise and solutions to the business.\nOrganization and workforce planning\nSupport franchise-level organization design and workforce planning as the business evolves across brands, indications, launches and field-facing models.\nPartner with leaders to ensure organization structures, role accountabilities, spans/layers and decision-making forums are fit for franchise growth and portfolio complexity.\nContribute to sales-builds, launch-readiness work and cross-commercial initiatives by ensuring people, capability and change implications are identified early and managed effectively.\nUse organizational data, business insight and leader feedback to anticipate risks, identify capability gaps and recommend targeted interventions.\nTalent, succession and leadership effectiveness\nLead high-quality talent and succession processes for franchise leadership teams and critical roles, ensuring strong follow-through on development actions.\nCoach leaders on talent differentiation, performance management, leadership effectiveness and development planning.\nHelp build strong leadership benches across commercial oncology, with a focus on identifying, developing and accelerating talent for broader US OBU and enterprise opportunities.\nPartner with leaders to strengthen team effectiveness, collaboration and leadership routines across franchises and cross-functional interfaces.\nPerformance, culture and employee experience\nSupport leaders in building a high-performance, inclusive and accountable culture across commercial teams.\nProvide coaching and guidance on performance development, manager effectiveness, employee engagement and team health.\nWork with leaders to identify and address organizational friction points that could slow execution, collaboration or decision-making.\nEnsure HR processes and interventions are executed with business relevance, consistency and appropriate urgency.\nChange leadership\nLead or support people-related change across the franchises, including launch-driven change, organization evolution, new ways of working and capability shifts.\nEquip leaders and managers to communicate change clearly, manage adoption and sustain engagement through periods of growth and complexity.\nBring disciplined project management to HR initiatives, ensuring clear outcomes, owners, timelines and stakeholder alignment.\nPartner across HR and commercial leadership to ensure change plans are integrated, practical and grounded in business priorities.\nEmployee relations and risk management\nEnsure HR decisions and interventions are aligned with global and local policies, employment law requirements and AstraZeneca values.\nPartner with Employee Relations, Legal and relevant HR specialists on complex or sensitive matters and provide sound coaching to leaders and managers.\nHelp leaders proactively manage people risk while maintaining fairness, consistency and business focus.\nData, insights and continuous improvement\nUse workforce data, talent insights, engagement signals and business context to inform HR priorities and leadership decisions.\nIdentify patterns and emerging people risks across the franchise client group, translating insight into focused actions.\nMeasure the impact of key HR interventions and adjust plans based on business feedback and outcomes.\nContribute to broader US OBU HR priorities, sharing learning and scalable approaches across the HR team.\nEssential experience and capabilities\nBachelor’s Degree in HR or a related field\n8+ years HR experience in complex, multinational organizations\nDemonstrated project management skills with a proven track record of delivering business improvements.\nTechnical HR expertise in resourcing, performance management, reward, employee relations, learning and development (L&D), or organizational change.\nExperience in negotiating union contracts, resolving disputes, and collaborating with works councils.\nProven ability to drive organizational change and engage with stakeholders at all levels.\nSupervisory experience with the capability to mentor and develop team members.\nPharmaceutical or regulated industry experience is preferred.\nSignificant HR business partnering experience in a complex, matrixed, multinational organization.\nStrong commercial acumen and ability to understand business strategy, portfolio priorities, organizational complexity and execution challenges.\nExperience partnering with senior leaders and leadership teams, with the confidence to coach, challenge and influence.\nStrong capability across talent management, succession planning, performance development, organization design, workforce planning and change management.\nProven ability to diagnose business needs and translate them into practical, high-impact HR solutions.\nSound judgment in employee relations, policy interpretation and risk management.\nStrong analytical skills and comfort using data and insights to inform recommendations.\nAbility to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels, moving quickly from diagnosis to action.\nExcellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.\nDesirable experience\nPostgraduate qualification in Human Resources (HR) or a related field;\nExperience in pharmaceuticals, biotech, healthcare, life sciences or another regulated, science-led industry.\nExperience supporting commercial, field, marketing, market access, medical or launch-oriented organizations.\nExperience working in high-growth businesses, transformation environments or organizations with significant portfolio and launch complexity.\nPostgraduate qualification or professional certification in HR, organization development, employment law, coaching or a related field.\nKey relationships\nInternal\nUS OBU HR Lead and US OBU HR team.\nUS Oncology Franchise Heads and franchise leadership teams.\nHR Centers of Excellence, including Talent, Reward, Employee Relations, Learning & Development and Talent Acquisition.\nCross-functional US OBU partners across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Business Excellence and Innovation/Business Planning.\nGlobal Oncology and enterprise HR partners, where relevant.\nExternal\nExternal HR, talent, leadership development or organization design partners, where required.\nEmployment counsel or advisory partners, in partnership with Legal/Employee Relations, where needed.\nWhat success looks like\nFranchise leaders view HR as a strategic, commercially relevant partner who improves business decision-making and leadership effectiveness.\nFranchise people plans are clearly linked to business priorities and actively support launch readiness, growth, talent depth and execution.\nCritical talent, succession and leadership risks are identified early and managed with clear actions.\nManagers are better equipped to lead performance, development, engagement and change.\nOrganization and workforce decisions are more disciplined, data-informed and aligned across the US OBU.\nHR interventions are practical, timely and valued by the business.\nThe annual base pay (or hourly rate of compensation) for this position ranges from $146,411.20 to $219,616.80. Our positions offer eligibility for various incentives-an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles. Benefits offered include qualified retirement programs, paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves), as well as health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.\nDate Posted\n24-Sep-2026Closing Date\n27-Sep-2026Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics. 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