Sr. Manager, BUHR Finance

The Senior Manager, Finance (HR) serves as a strategic finance partner to Human Resources leadership, providing financial insight, governance, and decision support for workforce‑related investments and operating plans. This role plays a critical part in shaping people strategy by translating HR initiatives into clear financial outcomes, ensuring alignment with business priorities, compliance requirements, and long‑range financial goals. This position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise‑level decisions during a period of transformation and growth at DePuy Synthes. 

The Sr Manager BUHR Finance is responsible for executing the people strategy, and delivery of HR programs supporting the Finance globally. Reporting to the Head of HR for Finance and Legal, Functions, this role serves as a strategic partner the functional Leadership teams to drive talent outcomes aligned to business priorities. The role provides leadership across talent strategy, organization effectiveness, workforce planning, and leadership development, and organizational engagement ensuring alignment to business strategy, financial performance, and enterprise priorities. This position ensures execution of HR programs with rigor, consistency, and impact, while continuously monitoring external market trends and internal business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead people engagement strategy for the Finance organiatization.

• Lead and execute on Talent Strategy and Management (Performance, Succession, Capability Building, Coaching, DEI).

• Coach and advise business leaders.

• Activate and Execute on Strategies (policies & programs) launched by HR COE teams.

• Lead Organizational Design & Strategic Workforce Planning.

• Advise on policies and programs launched by HR COE teams.

• Own the global HR strategy and talent agenda for the function,  ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities, financial performance objectives, and workforce outcomes.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing data-driven insights and recommendations on organization design, talent strategy, leadership capability, and workforce planning.

• Drive organization effectiveness, including org design, operating model evolution, spans and layers optimization, and team effectiveness.

• Partner closely with Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, and HR COEs and broader BUHR community to design and deploy integrated talent solutions that attract, retain, and develop high-performing talent.

• Lead workforce planning and analytics efforts, translating business strategy into actionable hiring, development, and reskilling plans.

• Drive continuous improvement and transformation of HR processes, tools, and governance to enhance effectiveness, scalability, and employee experience.

• Monitor external market trends (talent, capability, and operating models within Finance) and translate insights into forward-looking HR strategies.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred.

• Minimum of 6-8 years of progressive HR experience, including business partnering and executing enterprise talent strategies.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence leaders and translate complex people topics into actionable insights.

• Ability to create executive-ready narratives and materials for senior leadership audiences.

• Demonstrated presence, judgment, and discretion when advising leaders on sensitive organizational and talent matters.

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities, with business and financial acumen.

• Ability to synthesize complex inputs (talent data, business strategy, financial metrics, and workforce trends) into clear recommendations.

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality in deliverables and execution.

• Ability to operate with pace, rigor, and sound judgment in a dynamic, high-visibility environment.

• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Finance to align talent strategy with financial outcomes and business performance.

• Proven ability to lead multiple complex workstreams and deliver results in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and ability to influence outcomes through partnership and governance.

• Ability to build credibility quickly with senior leaders and navigate complex stakeholder environments.

Preferred Requirements

• MBA or other advanced degree in HR, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.

• Experience supporting Finance and/or Legal organizations within a global, matrixed, publicly traded company.

• Previous people leadership experience preferred.

For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com. 

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

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