Director, HRBP - CE & Marketing

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our most important asset. As a Director, HR Business Partner supporting our global Commercial Excellence and Marketing organizations, you will serve as a senior advisor to executive leaders, shaping and driving the people strategy in direct alignment with business priorities and enterprise transformation. This role sits at the center of the GTM transformation, supporting a high‑profile, complex, and highly visible function that requires close partnership with senior leaders across regions and functions.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership
  • Act as a trusted advisor to global Commercial Excellence and Marketing leadership, providing clear, data‑informed perspective on organizational health, performance, and risk.
  • Participate actively in leadership forums, influencing strategy and ensuring people considerations are embedded in decisions.
  • Lead the development and execution of the people strategy, aligned with business goals and the broader enterprise transformation.
  • Partner with leaders to evolve how work gets done, including team structures, decision rights, and cross‑functional alignment across regions.
  • Provide pragmatic guidance on risk, governance, and employee‑related matters in a complex global environment.
• Transformation and Capability Build
  • Work closely with leaders to strengthen organizational foundations that enable go‑to‑market success: organizational design, stakeholder management, and cross‑functional alignment.
  • Help define and build capabilities required for a more integrated, insight‑driven commercial model, including roles, skills, and ways of working.
  • Translate strategy into organizational design and talent implications, ensuring alignment with workforce capability.
• AI Enablement and Future of Work
  • Embed AI and digital capability considerations into workforce and talent strategy, ensuring teams are positioned to leverage new tools and ways of working.
  • Prioritise reskilling and upskilling efforts to keep pace with business and technology change.
  • Use data and analytics to deliver forward‑looking insights that inform workforce planning and decision‑making.
• Talent, Skills and Workforce Planning
  • Lead workforce planning across global Commercial Excellence and Marketing organizations, balancing current needs with future capability requirements.
  • Drive a skills‑based approach to talent decisions, including hiring, development, and internal mobility.
  • Build diverse pipelines for critical roles and leadership positions, moving talent across functions and geographies to strengthen effectiveness.
  • Provide actionable talent insights to inform investment, prioritisation, and risk mitigation.
• Organizational Design and Change
  • Lead organizational design efforts tied to transformation, including operating model evolution and changes to team structures.
  • Advise on spans, layers, role clarity and simplification.
  • Support large‑scale change initiatives, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and strong adoption across global teams.
  • Partner with HR to deliver coordinated solutions that support the broader transformation agenda.
• Performance, Engagement and Culture
  • Drive execution of core HR processes: performance management, compensation planning, and talent reviews.
  • Translate engagement data into focused actions that improve team effectiveness and business outcomes.
  • Strengthen culture, ensuring consistency while respecting local nuance.
  • Champion inclusive leadership and embed equity in hiring, promotion, and talent decisions.
  • Build high‑performing, accountable teams with trust and engagement.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as an HR Business Partner supporting senior leaders in complex, global organizations.
• Strong track record of influencing executive stakeholders and shaping business‑critical decisions.
• Deep experience in organizational design, transformation, and change leadership.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people strategy to revenue, growth and operational outcomes.
• Experience using data and analytics to inform decisions and drive impact.
• Preferred experience supporting commercial, GTM or marketing organizations at a global scale.
• Experience in technology‑enabled or AI‑driven environments.
• Comfort operating in a fast‑paced environment with shifting priorities and high expectations.
• Strategic and commercial mindset, global, matrixed organization experience, strong judgment and ability to simplify complex issues.
• High degree of resilience, adaptability and ownership in a dynamic setting.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model: flexible hybrid working environment (2‑3 days a week in the office depending on the role).
• Flexibility & Work‑Life Balance: supportive policies for personal and professional responsibilities, including up to 8 weeks of work from anywhere per year.
• Career Development and Growth: continuous learning and skills development programs, enabling growth in an AI‑enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: comprehensive plans including flexible vacation, mental health days, Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs and wellbeing resources.
• Culture: recognised reputation for inclusion, belonging, flexibility and work‑life balance.
• Social Impact: paid volunteer days and opportunities to contribute to ESG initiatives.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide a drug‑free workplace and make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other protected classification.