Vice President, Human Resources

Bausch + Lomb (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) is a leading global eye health company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world-from the moment of birth through every phase of life. Our mission is simple, yet powerful: helping you see better, to live better.

Our comprehensive portfolio of over 400 products is fully integrated and built to serve our customers across the full spectrum of their eye health needs throughout their lives. Our iconic brand is built on the deep trust and loyalty of our customers established over our 170-year history. We have a significant global research, development, manufacturing and commercial footprint of approximately 13,000 employees and a presence in approximately 100 countries, extending our reach to billions of potential customers across the globe.

We have long been associated with many of the most significant advances in eye health, and we believe we are well positioned to continue leading the advancement of eye health in the future.

The Vice President, Human Resources - Global Product Supply and R&D is a strategic HR executive and member of the HR Leadership Team (HRLT), reporting directly to the CHRO. This role serves as the primary HR partner to executive leaders across Global Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Research & Development within a complex, highly regulated life sciences organization.

The VP, HR shapes and executes an integrated global people strategy that enables operational excellence, regulatory rigor, scientific innovation, and sustainable growth. This leader oversees a team of seasoned HR professionals and partners closely with Centers of Excellence (COE) to deliver enterprise-wide talent, leadership, and workforce solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic HR Leadership

• Partner directly with the Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain and Operations Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Development and Chief Medical Officer and their leadership teams to align people strategy with business objectives.
• Translate enterprise strategy into multi-year workforce, leadership, and organizational plans.
• Serve as an active member of the HRLT, contributing to enterprise-wide HR priorities and initiatives.
• Provide executive coaching and counsel to senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, development, talent acquisition, workforce planning, organization design and transformation.

Workforce Strategy & Capability Building

• Lead global workforce planning across manufacturing networks, supply chain operations, quality organizations, and R&D functions.
• Develop long-term strategies addressing automation, digital transformation, regulatory evolution, and pipeline growth.
• Partner with Talent COE to build critical leadership, operations, technical and scientific capabilities (e.g., biologics manufacturing, regulatory science, AI-enabled R&D).
• Ensure robust location and capacity planning aligned with global expansion and product lifecycle strategy.
• Execute comprehensive recruitment strategies to address and fulfill the organization's staffing and resource requirements.

Leadership & Succession

• Own succession planning and talent reviews for critical global roles.
• Strengthen diverse leadership pipelines across operations and R&D.
• Drive leadership assessment, development, and executive readiness planning.
• Ensure board-ready talent insights for enterprise leadership discussions.
• Advise and coach organizational leaders on key human resources priorities and emerging people needs

Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation

• Lead organizational design and operating model evolution to enable agility and compliance.
• Support major transformation initiatives such as:
• Global manufacturing network optimization
• Digital supply chain initiatives
• Quality system modernization
• R&D talent development and optimal organization structure design
• Guide large-scale change management efforts across global sites.

Culture, Engagement & Compliance

• Foster a culture of quality, teamwork, operations excellence, innovation, and financial excellence to advance Bausch + Lomb's goal of being the best eye health company.
• Reinforce strong ethical standards…