Director, HR Business Partner - IT

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services, providing the insights and answers that help healthcare providers, patients, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and health systems make confident decisions and improve outcomes.

Through our unparalleled science, data, technology and laboratory network, we advance diagnostics, accelerate innovation and help address some of the world’s most important health challenges.

As we shape the future of healthcare, we are leveraging advanced technologies, intelligent digital solutions and data-driven innovation across our operations to enhance how work gets done and deliver greater value to customers and patients.

With our global scale and deep expertise, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, grow your career and make a real impact on people’s health around the world. Together, we’re improving health and improving lives.

Labcorp is a global leader in diagnostic testing and drug development solutions, helping healthcare providers, researchers, and patients make informed decisions that advance care. Join us in our mission to improve health and improve lives.

Labcorp is seeking a remote Director, HR Business Partnering to join our team!

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership Partnership

Serves as the trusted advisor to multiple (SVPs/VPs) and their global leadership teams translating business strategy into integrated people strategy

Provides strategic counsel on leadership effectiveness, performance outcomes, culture and engagement impacts, and talent/succession planning

Advises on executive onboarding, transitions, and leadership team dynamics

Anticipates people-related risks tied to business priorities and operating changes

Ensures alignment between global functional priorities and regional/local execution, balancing trade-offs between global standardization and local requirements

Organizational Design

Leads complex organizational design efforts across one or more global functions, ensuring org design reflects evolving business needs and digital/technology-enabled operating models required to drive growth

Facilitates executive decision-making on structure, roles, and organizational trade-offs

Integrates organizational design with succession and talent strategy

Anticipates downstream impacts of organizational changes

Partners with regional HR and business leaders to optimize global operating models, spans/layers, and location strategies

Talent Performance, Development & Engagement

Leads SVP and VP level succession planning and executive talent reviews

Ensures consistent application of performance and talent standards globally, while incorporating regional nuances visa a vis partnership with regional HR

Advises on performance differentiation and pay-for-performance decisions with Total Rewards

Partners with Talent and Learning COEs on leadership development strategies

Identifies and develops global leadership pipelines, including mobility strategies and cross-market talent deployment

Partners with client leaders on development and execution of employee engagement and retention strategies

Coaches senior leaders on leadership effectiveness

Enterprise Alignment and HR Integration

Acts as the central point of integration between global function leadership and regional HR organizations, ensuring seamless execution of HR strategies across countries

Partners with HR COEs: Compensation, Talent, Learning, Global Benefits, Talent Acquisition, HR Analytics, HR Tech, ID&B, Compliance on execution of talent processes and programs

Ensures people decisions align with enterprise HR governance

Navigates complex multi-country labor laws, regulatory environments, and cultural considerations, proactively mitigating risk

Provides strategic insights and decision materials to business leaders

Represents client organizations’ people agenda in HR forums

Data, Analytics and Technology

Leverages workforce analytics and external benchmarks to inform decisions

Uses data to diagnose organizational health and predict risks

Partners with HR Analytics to build insights and dashboards

Leverages technology, digital tools, and AI-enabled insights to improve decision quality, organizational effectiveness, and workforce productivity

Partners with HR Tech and IT to drive adoption of digital solutions that enhance employee experience, automation, and data visibility

Scope and Escalation

Operates with high autonomy, escalating only the most critical risks

Makes independent, data-informed recommendations on executive talent, organizational design, and workforce strategy, with direct influence on final leadership decisions

Requirements

Bachelors' Degree

12 or more years of progressive HR leadership experience

Preferred qualifications

Advanced degree (MBA, MA in HR or related field)

HR certification (e.g., SPHR, SHRM-SCP)

1 or more years' experience in healthcare or life sciences industry

Additional Job Standards

Demonstrated success advising on and influencing business strategy working with Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents

Experience in global, matrixed environments supporting complex functions, influencing outcomes across regions without direct authority

Experience leading complex organizational design in partnership with the Business and COEs

Experience using data and analytics to drive talent and organizational decisions

Expertise in performance management, succession planning, and leadership effectiveness

Strong business acumen and financial acumen; Experience aligning workforce strategies with financial plans, including headcount planning, budgeting, and cost management

Excellent executive communication skills and presence

Strong cross-COE partnership capability

Ability to travel as needed (~15% -20%)

The Director, HR Business Partner (HRBP) – Global IT serves as a senior enterprise HR leader and strategic advisor to executive leadership (SVPs/VPs), driving integrated people strategies across globally distributed, matrixed organizations. This role operates at the intersection of business strategy, global workforce dynamics, and functional transformation, ensuring alignment of talent, organizational design, and culture to enable sustainable business performance across regions.

Acting as the functional HR leader for Global IT, this role partners closely with regional HR leaders across key geographies to ensure consistent execution of enterprise priorities while adapting to local regulatory, cultural, and market dynamics.

Success in this role is defined by measurable business impact, including improved organizational effectiveness, global leadership capability, talent pipeline strength, and workforce productivity.

The role requires deep global HRBP expertise, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence decisions in a highly complex, multi-country environment.

Application Window: 9/18/2026

Pay Range: $135,000 - 165,000

All job offers will be based on a candidate’s skills and prior relevant experience, applicable degrees/certifications, as well as internal equity and market data.

The position is also eligible for an annual bonus under the Labcorp Bonus Plan. Bonuses are payable based on corporate and/or business segment performance and are subject to individual performance modifiers.