Exec Director, HR Business Partner - Corporate Affairs

We're building a world of health around every individual - shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

This role supports the Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Legal Officer and their organization. The Corporate Affairs team is critical to enabling CVS Health to deliver on its mission every day. The function brings together lawyers, government affairs professionals, policy experts, communications and compliance specialists who help the company navigate a complex, highly regulated environment so the company can focus on simplifying health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

• Set the talent strategy. Identify the talent levers that matter most for, and focus the business on a clear, prioritized set of actions that drive meaningful impact for our people and the business.
• Champion the colleague experience. Stay close enough to the team to understand how people are really doing, and act early to keep engagement strong across a group of high-performing experts
• Build leadership capability and succession strength. Help current leaders grow into their roles while building a strong pipeline, so the function has capable leaders ready to step up.
• Serve as a trusted advisor. Be the person Corporate Affairs leaders turn to for their most complex talent and organizational challenges, offering sound judgment and practical solutions rather than process for its own sake.
• Deliver core talent programs with quality. Own performance management, talent reviews, workforce planning, and other core HR cycles, ensuring each has a clear, measurable impact on the business.
• Partner on organizational design. Work closely with the leader of Corporate Affairs to ensure the function is well led, staffed with the right people in the right roles, and positioned to deliver on its mission now and in the future.
• Maintain a clear view of the talent landscape. Build and maintain visibility into leadership and talent needs across Corporate Affairs, so the organization knows what capabilities exist today and what to develop or hire for.
• Represent Corporate Affairs within the HR Function. Bring the Corporate Affairs perspective into company-wide HR decisions, and ensure what is agreed at the leadership level is understood and applied within Corporate Affairs and ensure the needs of Corporate Affairs employees and leaders are reflected in how HR plans and prioritizes its work company-wide.
• Drive continuous improvement. Look for ways to improve how the Corporate Affairs team works, develops its people, and models the practices it expects of the broader business.

• Strategic thinking. You can quickly assess a complex situation, determine where to focus, and move forward without waiting for perfect information, while also anticipating where talent gaps will emerge.
• Business acumen. You have understand how teams create value for the company and connect talent priorities to meaningful business outcomes.
• Expertise and judgment. You apply broad HR knowledge to get to the root cause of people issues, and you are willing to ask hard questions and explore better ways of doing things, respectfully and constructively.
• Influence and trust. You coach, challenge, and guide leaders while modeling the behaviors you expect of others. People follow your lead because they trust your judgment, not because of your title.
• Ownership and execution. You are accountable for outcomes, not just activity. You create clear plans, track progress consistently, and hold teams accountable in a way that helps rather than hinders. You are comfortable operating hands‑on to drive difficult or unfamiliar work to completion.
• Simplicity and clarity. You take complex ideas and plans and translate them into something easy to understand and act on.
• Change…