Director, HRBP - Commercial Excellence & 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. Commercial Excellence and Marketing are critical levers in how Thomson Reuters drives revenue growth, strengthens customer engagement, and scales globally. The work is complex and highly visible, requiring close partnership with senior leaders to evolve operating models, build new capabilities, and enable more integrated, data-driven ways of working across regions and functions.

The pace is high and the environment is dynamic. Priorities will shift as the business evolves, and success in this role requires strong judgment, adaptability, and the ability to balance near-term execution with long-term strategy. You will be expected to lead through ambiguity, navigate competing demands, and bring clarity and structure to complex organizational challenges.

As a core member of the leadership teams you support, you will provide insight-led counsel, shape critical talent and organizational decisions, and ensure the organization is equipped to deliver against its growth ambitions in an increasingly digital and AI-enabled landscape.

About the Role  

In this opportunity as Director, HRBP - CE & Marketing , your responsibilities will be: 

Strategic Business Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor to global Commercial Excellence and Marketing leadership team, providing clear, data-informed perspective on organizational health, performance, and risk
  Participate as an active member of leadership forums, shaping business decisions and ensuring people considerations are embedded in strategy
• Lead the development and execution of the people strategy, aligned to 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

• Partner closely with Commercial Excellence and Marketing leaders to strengthen the organizational foundations that enable go-to-market success, including organizational design, stakeholder management and cross-functional alignment Help define and build the capabilities required to support a more integrated, insight-driven commercial model, including roles, skills, and ways of working
• Support leaders in translating strategy into organizational design and talent implications, ensuring alignment between business ambition and workforce capability
• Bring an external perspective on best practices in commercial and marketing organizations to inform decisions and accelerate progress

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
• Partner with leaders to prioritize reskilling and upskilling efforts to keep pace with business and technology change
• Use data and analytics to provide forward-looking insights that inform workforce planning and decision-making

Talent, Skills and Workforce Planning

• Lead workforce planning efforts across global Commercial Excellence and Marketing organizations, balancing current needs with future capability requirements
• Drive a more skills-based approach to talent decisions, including hiring, development, and internal mobility
• Partner with Talent teams to build strong, diverse pipelines for critical roles and leadership positions
• Identify opportunities to move talent across functions and geographies to strengthen organizational effectiveness
• Provide leaders with clear, actionable talent insights to inform investment, prioritization, and risk mitigation

Organizational Design and Change

• Lead organizational design efforts tied to transformation, including operating model evolution and changes to team structures
• Advise leaders on spans and layers, role clarity, and how to simplify and scale the organization effectively
• Support large-scale change initiatives, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and strong adoption across global teams
• Partner across HR to deliver coordinated solutions that support the broader transformation agenda

Performance, Engagement and Culture

• Drive execution of core HR processes including performance management, compensation planning, and talent reviews
• Translate engagement data into focused, practical actions that improve team effectiveness and business outcomes
• Partner with leaders to strengthen culture, particularly in a global environment where consistency and local nuance must be balanced
• Champion inclusive leadership and ensure equity is embedded in hiring, promotion, and talent decisions
• Support leaders in building high-performing, accountable teams with strong levels of trust and engagement

About You  

You're a fit for the role of Director, HRBP - CE & Marketing if your background includes: 

• 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
• Experience supporting commercial, GTM, or marketing organizations on a scale is preferred
• Experience in technology-enabled or AI-driven environments is highly relevant
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and high expectations

Key Capabilities

• Strategic and commercial mindset with an understanding of how Commercial Excellence and Marketing drive growth
• Ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Strong judgment, with the ability to simplify complex issues and provide clear, actionable direction
• Credibility and confidence to challenge senior leaders constructively
• High degree of resilience, adaptability, and ownership in a fast-moving environment

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Replacement: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:  We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

 

 

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $158,100 USD - $293,500 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $137,200 USD - $254,800 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $155,000 CAD - $205,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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