Director Human Resources Business Partner

Director Human Resources Business Partner

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.
• A minimum of 10 years’ progressively responsible related experience with a minimum of 6 years in a leadership role.
• Prior experience as an HR Business Partner experience in Biotech or Pharma industry strongly preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and local employment law.
• Demonstrated skills and abilities in coaching, influencing, facilitation, development, and problem solving with a passion to deliver results.
• Excellent communication, presentation, consultative, partnership, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in business analysis and compensation planning.
• Familiarity with benefit program design and delivery.
• Strong adaptability to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to influence mid-level and senior management.
• Effective conflict resolution skills.
• Prior experience working with teams across multiple geographies.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong trusting relationships in order to gain support and achieve results; skilled in bringing alignment to different views of constituents across the business.
• Skilled at negotiating with business partners or management and influencing senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization.
• Proficient at creating and communicating a clear vision among team members effectively aligning resources and activities to achieve functional area and/or organizational goals.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, primarily domestic.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain effective relationships with business group leadership and employees.
• Ensure regular presence to build and enhance relationship with employees.
• Provides expert advice and counsel to assigned group leaders on organization and human resources issues.
• Partners with the group executives and their teams to develop strategies and implement talent plans to address organizational talent needs; partners with Talent Acquisition to ensure talent gaps are filled appropriately.
• Drives performance management and succession planning process within client group(s) to develop key talent and bench strength for future needs and to ensure the best talent is retained.
• Consults with clients to understand training and development needs across their groups and partners in creating employee development plan.
• Works with business leaders to establish and drive employee engagement actions.
• Offers objective and balanced advice to leaders on business challenges and people implications, leadership effectiveness, culture, and alignment.
• Oversees annual performance and compensation planning for assigned group(s) to ensure alignment of total rewards to performance.
• Assists managers and provides constructive feedback and coaching for all aspects of the company performance management process including coaching leaders on effective documentation practices for good and poor performance, evaluating performance results, and making promotion recommendations.
• Provides guidance to objectively assess and resolve employee relations issues. Identifies root causes as opportunities to improve team effectiveness; coaches managers to be proactive in employee relations issues.
• Manages and resolves complex employee relations issues; conducts effective, thorough and objective investigations and closes out issues in an effective manner.
• Develops and implements appropriate change management plans as needed.
• Works effectively with the process owners for one or more sub-section HR process (i.e., Performance Management, Compensation Planning, Learning and Development, On Boarding Programs and Organizational Effectiveness).
• Participates in the design and management of company-wide compensation programs.
• Performs other responsibilities as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience as an HR Business Partner experience in Biotech or Pharma industry strongly preferred.