The Director of People - M&A will lead the People M&A function, driving integration strategies and due diligence efforts while advising senior leadership on organizational design decisions.
Director, Talent Management
📜 Description
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving talent strategy and organizational effectiveness.
- Translate business priorities into HR initiatives with measurable outcomes.
- Partner with leadership on talent retention, engagement, and performance acceleration.
- Lead the design and implementation of performance management practices that drive accountability and growth.
- Support development and upskilling initiatives in partnership with internal stakeholders.
- Lead and coach a high-performing HRBP team with clear expectations for strategic partnership.
🛠️ Requirements
- 8–12 years of progressive HR experience, including HRBP leadership in growth-stage or PE-backed organizations.
- Demonstrated track record of building and operationalizing HR programs in environments without large CoE support.
- Experience managing or mentoring HRBPs or HR generalists.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to influence senior leaders.
✨ Benefits
- Advise leadership on pay decisions — promotions, merit, and off-cycle adjustments — aligned to performance and internal equity principles 
Full job description
Company Description
IntegriChain is the data and application backbone for market access departments of Life Sciences manufacturers. We deliver the data, the applications, and the business process infrastructure for patient access and therapy commercialization. More than 250 manufacturers rely on our ICyte Platform to orchestrate their commercial and government payer contracting, patient services, and distribution channels. ICyte is the first and only platform that unites the financial, operational, and commercial data sets required to support therapy access in the era of specialty and precision medicine. With ICyte, Life Sciences innovators can digitalize their market access operations, freeing up resources to focus on more data-driven decision support. With ICyte, Life Sciences innovators are digitalizing labor-intensive processes – freeing up their best talent to identify and resolve coverage and availability hurdles and to manage pricing and forecasting complexity.
We are headquartered in Philadelphia, PA (USA), with offices in: Ambler, PA (USA); Pune, India; and Medellín, Colombia. For more information, visit www.integrichain.com, or follow us on Twitter @IntegriChain and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Living in PA, NJ, NY is a must. Regular visits to our Philadelphia office are required
The Director of Talent Management is a strategic and hands-on leader who connects business priorities with people execution in a high-growth, evolving organization. This role partners closely with senior leaders to drive performance, accountability, and organizational effectiveness — translating strategy into scalable talent practices that deliver visible business impact.
Leading a small team of HR Business Partners, this individual operates as a player-coach: personally building and launching key talent programs in year one while developing the team’s capability to sustain and scale them over time. The right candidate brings sharp business acumen, comfort with ambiguity, and a track record of driving HR transformation in growth-stage or PE-backed environments — where building without large CoE support and moving fast are the norm.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic HR Partnership
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving talent strategy, organizational effectiveness, and business-aligned people decisions
Translate business priorities into HR initiatives with clear, measurable outcomes and visible impact
Partner with leadership on talent retention, engagement, and performance acceleration
Operate with senior HR visibility — participating in leadership forums and bringing people insights to business discussions with credibility
Serve as a senior escalation point, providing timely judgment on complex people matters and cross-functional HR topics
Talent & Performance Transformation
Lead the design and implementation of evolved performance management practices that drive accountability, growth, and differentiated rewards
Personally build initial frameworks, tools, and calibration processes — including talent assessment approaches — then scale them through the HRBP team
Partner with leadership to reinforce a pay-for-performance culture, ensuring clear linkage between outcomes and rewards
Support development and upskilling initiatives in partnership with relevant internal stakeholders
Organizational Design & Job Architecture
Lead organizational design efforts including role clarity, career pathing, leveling frameworks, and workforce planning
Continue to embed scalable job architecture: leveling structures, career ladders, and role definitions aligned to growth and operating model needs
Translate business strategy into practical org design decisions around spans, layers, and capability requirements
Compensation Advisory
Advise leadership on pay decisions — promotions, merit, and off-cycle adjustments — aligned to performance and internal equity principles
Partner with People & Culture team members on rewards philosophy and differentiated pay practices.
Process Design & Operational Excellence
Design and implement scalable HRBP processes that improve consistency, transparency, and impact, balancing rigor with speed
Drive operational rhythms across talent programs: performance cycles, calibration, and workforce planning
Establish a cadence of business reviews using talent data and insights to help leaders plan proactively for their people needs
Change Leadership
Lead and support change initiatives, ensuring adoption of new talent practices and ways of working
Develop communication and change strategies that drive clarity and buy-in with impacted stakeholders
Identify organizational friction points and proactively drive improvements
HRBP Team Leadership
Lead, coach, and develop a small, high-performing HRBP team with clear expectations for strategic partnership and execution quality
Foster a culture of accountability, pragmatic problem-solving, and continuous improvement
Serve as the senior decision-maker on escalated employee relations matters, ensuring high-quality, timely support for the business
Qualifications
Ideal Experience
8–12 years of progressive HR experience, including HRBP leadership in growth-stage, PE-backed, or scaling technology or SaaS organizations
Demonstrated track record of personally building and operationalizing HR programs — performance management, talent calibration, job architecture — in environments without large Centers of Excellence support
Experience managing or mentoring HRBPs or HR generalists; comfort leading a small team while remaining hands-on
Strong business acumen with the ability to influence senior leaders credibly and effectively
Experience facilitating talent assessment and calibration processes (e.g., 9-box or equivalent)
Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change and adoption of new people practices
HR Generalist background a plus – providing backbone of overall HR knowledge to application in Talent Management role
Preferred Background
Experience in technology, SaaS, or data and analytics-driven businesses
Familiarity with Lattice or a comparable HRIS and performance management platform
Exposure to AI-enabled HR tools or process automation
Key Competencies
Strategic Influence — connects talent strategy to business outcomes; trusted advisor to senior leadership
Operational Excellence — designs and executes scalable, high-impact HR processes with rigor and speed
Organizational Effectiveness — drives clarity, structure, and alignment through thoughtful design and planning
Performance Orientation — deep familiarity with performance management frameworks, calibration, and pay-for-performance linkage
Leadership & Team Development — builds, coaches, and elevates a high-performing HRBP team
Change Agility — moves fast, adapts well, and brings stakeholders along through transitions
What Sets This Role Apart
Direct ownership of a focused talent transformation agenda — with clear year-one priorities and room to grow scope over time
High visibility with senior leadership and meaningful, measurable impact on business performance
A genuine blend of strategy and hands-on execution — ideal for leaders who want to build while leading
Opportunity to shape foundational talent systems in a scaling, PE-backed organization at an inflection point
Additional Information
What does IntegriChain have to offer?
- Mission driven: Work with the purpose of helping to improve patients' lives!
- Excellent and affordable medical benefits + non-medical perks including Student Loan Reimbursement, Flexible Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan with a Company Match to prepare for your future
- Robust Learning & Development opportunities including over 700+ development courses free to all employees
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IntegriChain is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. IntegriChain is an equal opportunity employer; committed to creating a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
Our policy on visa sponsorship for US based positions: Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by IntegriChain.
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