Niamh Alix
Chief HR Officer, At Prime Medicine Prime Medicine
Niamh Alix is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Prime Medicine, leading the people and culture strategy amid rapid growth in gene editing and precision medicine. With over two decades of HR leadership across biotech, pharma, and global industries, she is known for coaching executive level teams for the highest performance, driving organizational transformation, leading best in class talent strategies, and navigating the changes that the industry brings. Her career spans senior roles at Orchard Therapeutics, Lonza, Novartis and Bristol-Myers Squibbs, and she brings a global perspective shaped by experience across the U.S., Europe, and Asia markets.
Seminars
What does it look like when a people leader operates beyond the traditional HR remit, and how do you build the enterprise relationships and commercial credibility to do it with authority? Explore how CHROs and CPOs in life sciences organizations of different sizes and stages are expanding their scope, taking on board engagement, commercial strategy, ESG, and enterprise accountability, while continuing to lead a high-performing people function. Learn what the CPO+ role demands in terms of personal resilience, stakeholder management, and leadership identity, and what organizations must do to create the conditions that allow people leaders to operate at their full potential.
- What expanding the people remit beyond HR actually requires, in terms of capability, credibility, and personal leadership
- How CPO+ leaders are navigating board relationships, commercial decisions, and enterprise accountability alongside their core people responsibilities
- What life sciences organizations of different sizes and stages need from their most senior people leaders right now
- How to build the conditions that allow a CHRO or CPO to operate at the full extent of their potential
- How the CHRO and CPO role is evolving, and why there is no longer one definition of what senior HR leadership looks like
- The different pathways into the C-suite: what they demand, what they develop, and what they leave behind
- What the CPO+ operating model looks like in practice, expanded remit, enterprise influence, and board-level presence
- How to build the credibility, relationships, and commercial language needed to lead beyond the people function
