Senior Director managing execution of clinical trial programs to advance gene therapy. Leading clinical operations, ensuring strategic execution, and mentoring clinical teams across multiple clinical programs.
About the role
- Director of Workforce Strategy leading the Workforce Strategy and Skills Center of Excellence at HARMAN. Driving workforce transformation and skills-based organization in a global environment.
Responsibilities
- The Director of Workforce Strategy and Skills is a strategic leader within the People Experience organization and serves as the head of the Workforce Strategy and Skills Center of Excellence (COE).
- This role partners with senior leaders, Centers of Excellence, and People Enablement to reexamine how work is performed today and to define how the workforce operating models and must evolve to remain competitive.
- This role leads the shift toward a skills-based organization, moving beyond traditional role and job-based models to more agile, skills driven approaches to workforce planning, talent deployment, and development.
- Through enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, this leader shapes how work gets done, how talent is developed and mobilized, and how culture evolves to support sustained innovation and performance in a rapidly changing landscape.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in career architecture and skills‑based workforce design, including job structures, skills frameworks, and proficiency‑based expectations that enable internal mobility and targeted development.
- Experience leading long‑term workforce planning aligned to future skills needs and growth targets, leveraging analytics, predictive modeling, and digital workforce platforms.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in skills intelligence, strategic workforce planning, workforce strategy and/or workforce transformation (including HR transformation) within complex, global organizations or management consulting.
- Hands‑on experience with AI‑enabled talent and skills solutions, including advanced analytics or emerging technologies to support workforce insights, learning, and career development.
- Strong partnership experience across Talent Acquisition, Culture and Belonging, People Analytics, Finance, Operations, and HR Technology to embed inclusive, skills‑based talent practices.
- Experience designing or governing talent assessment and selection strategies, with understanding of validity, adverse impact, and legal considerations.
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree (MBA or related field) preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
- Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.).
- Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
- Work on best-in-class emerging technologies and an atmosphere that motivates you to give your best.
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