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Global HR Business Partner -Fully Onsite Opportunity
Job Description
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 day: enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources they need to achieve their career goals while helping take science a step beyond—developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, from protecting the environment and ensuring food safety to helping find cures for cancer.
Description
As a Global HR Business Partner (Senior HR Manager) at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll serve as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to executive leaders across the Clinical Development Services Division (CDSD), part of the Clinical Research Group (CRG). You’ll help translate business strategy into people priorities and organizational actions that build capability, strengthen performance and deliver business results.
This role has global responsibility for the Oversight Directors talent segment across our therapeutic business units and our Functional Service Provider (FSP) business. You’ll work closely with executive and senior leaders to understand their goals and operating challenges, offer an informed HR perspective, and guide decisions on organization, leadership and talent. You’ll influence through sound judgment, business insight and a practical understanding of how people and organizational choices affect results.
As a true business partner, you’ll consult with leaders on complex and sometimes ambiguous issues, frame options and tradeoffs, and recommend approaches that address both immediate needs and longer-term business priorities. You’ll constructively challenge assumptions when appropriate, help leaders anticipate talent and organizational risks, and guide them through decisions with clarity and accountability.
You’ll lead and connect HR work across organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent and succession, leadership development, performance, employee engagement, compensation, employee relations and change management. You’ll use workforce data and business context to identify trends, surface risks and opportunities, and turn insights into focused actions. You’ll also help leaders build strong, inclusive teams and a culture grounded in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s 4i values: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement.
Working across a global matrix, you’ll collaborate with HR colleagues and business partners to deliver consistent, effective solutions while adapting to local requirements and business needs. You’ll advise leaders on HR policies, processes and relevant employment practices, and help implement enterprise initiatives in ways that support CDSD’s strategy and operating model.
Requirements
- Advanced degree and at least 6 years of progressive HR experience, or a bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of progressive HR experience, preferably in global, matrixed organizations
- Preferred fields of study: Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field
- Experience partnering with senior and executive-level leaders on business, organizational and talent priorities
- Demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted HR business partner: consulting, advising, influencing and guiding leaders through complex decisions
- Strong business acumen and the ability to connect people strategy to business strategy, operating needs and measurable outcomes
- Experience leading or advising on organizational design, workforce planning, organizational change and development
- Expertise in talent management, succession planning, leadership development, performance management, compensation and employee relations
- Ability to use workforce data and analytics to identify trends, develop insights and inform leadership decisions
- Strong executive presence, communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex issues and recommendations clearly
- Excellent relationship-building, consulting, negotiation and influencing capabilities across levels, functions and geographies
- Sound judgment, discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive matters
- Ability to make decisions with incomplete information, manage competing priorities and adapt to change
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to lead multiple complex initiatives across a global matrix
- Proficiency with HR systems and Microsoft Office applications
- Knowledge of relevant employment laws and regulations; experience partnering with works councils or unions where applicable
- Fluency in English required; additional language skills valued for international roles
- Ability to travel approximately 10% as needed
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a contract research organization (CRO), life sciences, pharmaceutical or clinical research environment
- Experience supporting global, client-focused or service-based operating models, including an FSP business
- PHR/SPHR certification or equivalent HR credential
Skills Required
- Advanced degree plus 6 years of experience, or bachelor's degree plus 8 years of experience in progressive HR roles within global, matrix organizations
- PHR or SPHR certification
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate strategy into actionable HR solutions
- Experience leading organizational change and development initiatives
- Expertise in talent management, performance management, compensation, and employee relations
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills using HR data
- Excellent consulting, influencing, and relationship-building capabilities
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple complex initiatives
- Outstanding communication and presentation abilities
- Experience advising and developing leaders
- Ability to make decisions with limited information and adapt to change
- Proficiency with HR systems and Microsoft Office
- Experience partnering with works councils or unions where applicable
- Fluency in English
- Ability to travel 10-25% as needed
- Knowledge of relevant employment laws and regulations
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment
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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