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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Help shape the people strategy behind a global business. As Director of Human Resources for our Materials and Structural Analysis business (MSD), you’ll provide strategic HR leadership to the Global Service and Finance organizations, partnering with senior leaders to turn business priorities into people and organizational strategies that deliver results.
This role offers the chance to influence organizational direction, strengthen leadership capabilities, and shape the talent, structure, and skills needed for strong performance and future growth. You’ll lead across talent management, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, engagement, leadership development, and change management in a complex, global, matrixed environment.
Combining strategic perspective with a hands-on approach, you’ll use business insight and people analytics to anticipate needs, address complex challenges, and make a meaningful impact. You’ll also help bring our 4i Values—Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement—to life across the organization.
What you’ll do
- Partner strategically: Advise senior leaders across MSD Global Service and Finance, translating business priorities into people strategies that support growth, operational performance, and organizational effectiveness.
- Shape the organization and workforce: Lead organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and change management to help ensure the business has the right structures, capabilities, and leadership for current and future needs.
- Build talent and leadership: Set talent strategies across leadership development, performance, engagement, succession, and retention. Coach leaders to strengthen their effectiveness, build high-performing teams, and develop critical talent.
- Use insight to drive impact: Apply people analytics and business insight to anticipate organizational needs and shape practical solutions. Champion an inclusive, high-performing culture grounded in our 4i Values.
- Work across HR: Collaborate with global HR colleagues and Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated talent and organizational solutions and an exceptional colleague experience.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience.
- A degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field
- Success as a strategic HR partner to senior and executive leaders, ideally in a global, matrixed organization.
- Business and financial acumen, with the ability to turn business priorities into practical, high-impact people strategies.
- Experience leading organizational transformation, change management, organizational design, and strategic workforce planning.
- A record of developing and delivering strategies for talent management, succession, leadership development, engagement, performance, and retention.
- Executive presence and the ability to influence, challenge, coach, and build trusted relationships across functions, geographies, and organizational levels.
- Skill in coaching and developing leaders, strengthening team effectiveness, and building organizational capability.
- Strong communication, presentation, consultation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Analytical skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making, with the ability to turn insights into action.
- Experience using HR technology, analytics, and process improvement to improve organizational effectiveness and the colleague experience.
- The ability to navigate ambiguity, balance priorities, and work effectively in a fast-paced global environment.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting global Service, Finance, commercial, or operational organizations within a complex multinational company.
- Experience with process improvement methods such as Lean or Six Sigma.
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company 401k, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience
- Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field
- Experience serving as a strategic HR partner to senior and executive leaders
- Experience in a global, matrixed organization
- Business and financial acumen
- Experience leading organizational transformation, change management, organizational design, and strategic workforce planning
- Experience developing and delivering talent management, succession, leadership development, engagement, performance, and retention strategies
- Executive presence and ability to influence, challenge, coach, and build trusted relationships
- Experience coaching and developing leaders and strengthening team effectiveness
- Strong communication, presentation, consultation, and stakeholder management skills
- Analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
- Experience using HR technology, analytics, and process improvement
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and work effectively in a fast-paced global environment
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
- Experience supporting global Service, Finance, commercial, or operational organizations in a complex multinational company
- Experience with Lean or Six Sigma process improvement methods
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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