Global HR Business Partner (CRO / Life Science experience required)

Ergomed

Guildfordremote globalPosted Aug 19, 2026
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About the role

Company Description

Medicine moves forward here. So will you.

Clinical trials, safety studies, and audits make safe and innovative pharmaceutical-led care possible. As part of Ergomed Group, you help patients benefit so they experience more of life’s meaningful moments. Biopharmaceutical companies are our clients. Patients are our purpose.

Ergomed Group brings together Ergomed CRO, PrimeVigilance, Prudentia, and ADAMAS Consulting to help biopharmaceutical companies develop, deliver and safeguard therapies in oncology, rare disease and other complex areas of medicine. Across the Group, our teams turn the signals that clinical trials, safety systems and quality data generate into insight that helps bring safer treatments to patients around the world.

The science and analysis that guides our work is demanding. And this is where we excel. What defines us, though, is how we work together. Across countries, cultures and time zones, we bring kindness, curiosity and a shared sense of purpose to work that genuinely matters. Ideas are welcome here. Growth is expected. And every person has room to make a real difference to patients' lives.

Whether you are early in your career or bringing decades of experience, we want you to feel valued for what you do and for who you are. If that sounds like the place you have been looking for, we would love to hear from you.

Job Description

Shape HR Strategy at the Heart of Global Drug Safety

At ERGOMED Group, our pharmacovigilance teams protect patients around the world and we're looking for a Global HR Business Partner who wants to do the same for our people.

This is a rare opportunity to sit at the intersection of HR strategy and one of the most mission-critical functions in pharma - pharmacovigilance. You'll partner directly with senior PV leadership across regions, helping build the teams, culture, and capability that keep drug safety monitoring running at global scale, while also shaping HR practices that ripple across the wider organization.

If you're energized by complexity, thrive in matrixed, multi-country environments, and want your HR expertise to have a direct line to patient safety outcomes, this is your role.

What You'll Own

Strategic Partnership Be the trusted advisor to global business and leaders - translating their goals into HR strategies that actually move the needle.

Global Workforce Planning Lead capability gap analysis, succession planning, and talent strategy across a genuinely international footprint.

Performance & Talent Shape global performance frameworks and drive retention and development strategies for hard-to-find PV and safety talent.

Culture & Engagement Keep a real pulse on how our global teams are feeling and act on it, not just measure it.

Change Leadership Guide teams through restructuring, M&A, growth, and transformation with clarity and confidence.

Compensation, Analytics & Compliance Bring data-driven thinking to reward decisions and HR reporting, while ensuring global policies stay compliant across every market we operate in.

Qualifications

What You Bring

Proven experience as an HR Business Partner supporting multiple countries. CRO or pharmaceutical experience is required. PV experience is preferred.

A degree or HR qualification (minimum BA/BSc level).

Genuine comfort operating across time zones, cultures, and regional nuance.

Experience across workforce planning, organisation design, talent, leadership development, engagement and change.

A data-driven and commercially minded approach, with the ability to turn people insights into action Experience navigating organizational change and complex structures.

Strong relationship-building skills, with the credibility to advise senior stakeholders.

Willingness to travel when needed to stay close to the business.

Additional Information

When you join Ergomed Group, you make a difference by helping to bring safe and effective pharmaceutical treatment to patients around the world. You’ll join a passionate and collaborative team of experts in clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and quality consulting.

We are diverse in many ways, yet our values unite us. Our values are how we work, not words on a wall. If they sound like you, you will feel at home here.

Quality: we hold ourselves to the standard patients deserve.

Integrity and trust: we do the right thing, especially when it is hard.

Drive and passion: we care about the outcome, because someone is waiting on it.

Agility and responsiveness: we move quickly, because patients cannot wait.

Belonging: everyone is welcome, and every voice counts.

Collaborative partnerships: we go further by going together.

We look forward to welcoming your application.

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