Role Overview:We are seeking an experienced human resources leader to serve as a key advisor and business partner to executive management. The successful candidate will lead our human resources team and develop a strategy that fosters fairness and equity and strengthens and supports our team-oriented culture. This is an outstanding opportunity for an empathetic individual with proven leadership skills, strong business acumen, and a clear vision.
The successful candidate will have responsibility for developing and empowering our people while continuing to build an environment that keeps us an employer of choice. This will include cultivating leadership at all levels, fostering career growth opportunities, and championing a culture rooted in collaboration, transparency, and respect. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience as a Senior Director, Vice President, or Chief Human Resources Officer with the ability to link strategy to execution. This role reports directly to the CEO.
Responsibilities- Strategic leader:
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders on strategies that sustain Adimab as an employer of choice. Key focus areas include supporting leaders to drive performance and designing competitive compensation and benefit programs
- Collaborate with the HR team to design frameworks for ongoing feedback and development conversations, and create learning and development programs that support employee upskilling and career progression in alignment with Adimab's culture
- Identify and respond to external trends in human capital management and life sciences
- Learn Adimab's business model and stay apprised of industry trends and external markets
- Proactively anticipate current and future organizational needs, ensuring critical roles are staffed and succession planning is in place and shaping the organizational structure to match our ever-evolving business
- Driver of culture:
- Instill confidence in Adimab's mission and values, celebrate team successes, and seek out ways to clearly communicate core values and bring them to life
- Create strong partnerships to keep a pulse on culture and hold the organization accountable to its core values
- Champion Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives
- Challenge the status quo when needed
- Trusted advisor:
- Advise and coach the leadership team
- Advocate for employees
- Provide guidance on employee relations matters, ensuring fair, transparent, and consistent practices that strengthen trust and engagement across the organization
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of three human resource professionals
Needed upon hire- Bachelor's degree with 15+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in human resources; executive leadership experience highly desired; life sciences experience preferred
- Willingness to work onsite from our Lebanon, New Hampshire headquarters
- Team-first leadership skills, with the ability to contribute at all levels within the organization; demonstrated experience leading a team
- Empathy; skilled at seeing a situation from someone else's viewpoint and understanding their needs, motivations, and possible misunderstandings
- Team-oriented; recognizes that impactful contributions make the team better and that our collective success is more meaningful than our individual successes
- Proven ability to:
- Attract, develop, and retain top talent
- Build strong relationships throughout the organization
- Effectively coach senior leaders and growing managers
- Exercise discretion in handling confidential information and navigating sensitive situations with professionalism, diplomacy, and tact
- Think critically and contribute nonstandard and innovative solutions
- Communicate clearly with compassion and diplomacy
- Partner closely with other departments to align HR strategies with business objectives
- Navigate complex data sets to extract meaningful insights that drive informed decision-making
- Demonstrate strong financial and business acumen in workforce planning, compensation, equity, and organizational investments
Location: This is an office-based role in Lebanon, NH
