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We are seeking a strategic and commercially minded Vice President, HR Business Partner, Global Commercial to join our HR Leadership Team and serve as the lead HR advisor to our Chief Commercial Officer and Commercial Leadership Team.
This executive will oversee HR leadership across our Commercial clusters and partner with senior leaders across retail, eCommerce, wholesale, licensing, commercial operations, and regional organizations to deliver the talent, leadership, workforce, and organizational capabilities required to execute our growth strategy.
Reporting to the Chief Human Resources Officer, this leader will guide the Commercial organization through growth, transformation, and change while ensuring we have the right talent, leadership, culture, and operating model to achieve business objectives. The Vice President will lead a globally dispersed team of HR leaders and partner closely with HR Centers of Excellence to activate our five strategic talent pillars across the Commercial organization.
About the Job
Lead the Commercial People and Talent Strategy
Serve as the primary HR advisor to the Chief Commercial Officer and Commercial Leadership Team on business, talent, leadership, organization, workforce, and culture priorities.
Co-create and execute a multi-year Commercial people strategy connected to the company’s growth agenda, commercial priorities, financial commitments, and evolving operating model.
Translate business strategy into clear talent, capability, workforce, and organizational priorities across Commercial clusters and markets.
Bring an enterprise perspective to Commercial decisions by identifying cross-market implications, organizational interdependencies, talent risks, and opportunities to scale what works.
Use external trends, consumer and workforce insights, competitive intelligence, and people data to challenge assumptions and influence business strategy.
Represent Commercial within the HR Leadership Team, shaping enterprise HR priorities and ensuring HR strategies address the realities of Commercial and retail organizations.
Define clear priorities, measures, and governance for the Commercial HR agenda and drive disciplined execution across the global HR team.
Accelerate Performance
Feedback, coaching, performance management, manager development, and continuous learning
Partner with leaders to establish clear priorities, expectations, accountability, and performance standards.
Build a performance culture grounded in high standards, differentiated outcomes, continuous feedback, coaching, accountability, and humanity.
Strengthen the connection between enterprise strategy, Commercial priorities, team goals, and individual performance.
Equip leaders and managers to address performance directly, recognize differentiated contribution, and make high-quality talent decisions.
Use performance, productivity, engagement, and business data to identify organizational barriers and focus leadership action.
Partner with Talent Management and Development to embed feedback, coaching, manager development, and continuous learning into the Commercial operating rhythm.
Enable Leaders
Executive development, leadership accountability, talent review, and succession
Advise the Chief Commercial Officer on leadership team effectiveness, executive talent, succession, organization health, and critical leadership transitions.
Lead rigorous talent reviews and succession planning across the Commercial organization.
Identify the critical roles and capabilities required to deliver current and future Commercial priorities.
Translate succession plans into targeted development actions, critical experiences,…