Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner

Moderna • Cambridge, MA

2d • $272,200 - $490,100 • Onsite

About The Position

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 continuously 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. The Vice President, HRBP plays a central role in advancing Moderna’s evolution as a digital-first, AI-enabled company, reimagining how work gets done and how talent and technology come together to deliver breakthrough outcomes. This leader will operate at the intersection of people, technology, and business transformation, shaping a workforce that is agile, skilled, and ready to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving biotech landscape.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including at least 5 in HR leadership
• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
• Proven experience advising executive leaders in complex, global organizations, ideally within innovative, fast-paced environments
• Deep expertise in organizational design, talent strategy, succession planning, and performance enablement
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformation initiatives, including organizational, cultural, and workforce shifts
• Experience managing, coaching, and developing direct reports
• Experience navigating matrixed environments and influencing across regions, functions, and senior stakeholders
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, challenge the status quo, and drive change at scale
• High level of integrity, adaptability, and strategic problem-solving orientation

Nice To Haves

• Experience driving or supporting digital and AI-enabled workforce transformation, with a clear understanding of how technology is reshaping work
• Experience leveraging advanced people analytics, AI, and automation to drive insights, workforce decisions, and measurable business outcomes
• Strong ability to connect business strategy, scientific innovation, and people strategy to deliver measurable outcomes
• Experience operating in a digital-first, highly innovative environment, ideally within biotech, pharma, or similarly complex, science-driven industries

Responsibilities

• 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 to drive enterprise people priorities and deliver measurable impact

Benefits

• Best-in-class healthcare coverage, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support
• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savings and investment opportunities to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive