HR Site Director

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

Location/Division Specific Information
Carlsbad CA

How will you make an impact?
Reporting to the Sr. HR Director of the West Region, the Site HR Director will provide leadership to a team of 7-8 site HR partners. This role will lead and partner across multiple business units and functions with a focus on aligning with the HR platforms, driving change management, and creating a consistent and positive employee culture.

What will you do?

• Partners with the site leadership team on strategies that shape and impact the Carlsbad site culture, engagement, and employee experience. Carlsbad is our largest US facility of over 2,000 employees.
• Acts as the primary site HR partner for a moderate size client group
• Attracts, hires, trains, develops and retains a team of HR professionals to meet business needs
• Accelerates HR partner development through both individual and group development actions
• Acts as escalation point for employee relations and performance management concerns
• Shares and leverages best practices from across the organization
• Evaluates site policies and practices and guides improvement or harmonization efforts
• Manages the flow of information and communications both from and to the site HR population
• Facilitates organizational diagnosis by using metrics to build talent and organizational capabilities
• Acts as a catalyst for change; provides guidance and best practices for organizational design, development and change management solutions
• Coaches HR talent on complex leadership and HR issues including development, engagement, and talent performance and issues that create a competitive advantage for the business
• Keeps abreast of industry, market and functional trends, and leverages these insights to develop appropriate business unit HR strategies and solutions
• Evaluates work requests from across the organization and determines prioritization in collaboration with the business and in alignment with the HR model
• Partners with US and Canada field leadership team and HR Center of Excellence (COE) owners in shaping appropriate and innovative HR solutions
• Ensures activities throughout the assigned sites are core, common and consistent
• Ensures fairness and organizational consistency with our values in everything we do
• Leads process improvement and continuous learning culture across sites and the broader field organization
• Leads special projects as assigned

How will you get here?
Education

• BA/BS required
• MA/MS preferred

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive Human Resources Management experience from a large multi-national company
• A minimum of 2 years as senior HR partner supporting executives in a regional or global environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Demonstrated people management/leadership capabilities. People management experience preferred.
• A strong track record for developing and coaching business and HR Professionals
• Experience as a strategic HR partner with credibility as a trusted advisor
• Comprehensive HR experience, including a complete understanding of and hands on exposure to the full mix of HR functions in a global environment
• Must have ability to develop solid and positive professional relationships with senior leadership, subordinates and peers in a heavily matrixed environment
• Experience working with a variety of functions including R&D, commercial (sales, field marketing and service), marketing, product development, engineering, strategic planning, and operations
• A track record of positive results and an ability to show how his/her programs and initiatives have contributed to the growth and bottom line profitability of an organization while enhancing or driving cultural change
• Must have led/been directly involved in significant change management initiatives in prior roles
• Experience with Process Improvement approaches (Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Practical Process Improvement, etc.)
• Self-motivated; bias for action
• Effective communication skills with proven ability to influence without direct authority
• Ability to use a high level of confidentiality, tact, diplomacy, discretion and empathy/understanding in a global environment across multiple cultures
• Strong project management skills with ability to manage short term deliverables concurrent with longer-term strategic milestones

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