HR Manager

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HR Manager – CRG Commercial

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

How will you make an impact:
This role plays a meaningful part in aligning HR strategy to business goals. This role provides business partner support to key members of our Commercial leadership team and enables facilitation of HR efforts across global regions in partnership with local HR teams. Apply your unique skills in many different areas, such as learning and development, Talent Management, onboarding, compensation, compliance and employee engagement. You'll also get to showcase your abilities while working on impactful projects within the Clinical Research Group, Human Resources team.
What will you do:

• Coaching & Consultation: Provides HR solutions support, process knowledge advice, and consultation to functional leaders. Guide leaders in areas such as talent strategy, organizational assessment/design, org planning, workforce planning and organisational change to strengthen overall performance of the group/department and achieve business goals. Coach leaders and managers on the application of HR policies and processes (i.e. total compensation planning, people management, career development, employee relations, etc.), and HR issues. Drive manager and employee Self-Service adoption on HR processes and highly repeatable functional tasks

• Talent: Drive recruitment efforts within established division guidelines working with the Talent Acquisition and Total Rewards COEs. Partner with people leaders to use Employee Involvement Survey insights to build and roll-out employee engagement-building programs. Establish, assess and refine talent development and org planning initiatives that improve the capabilities of the workforce, and ensure talent is available to support business requirements.

• Business & Data Insight: Partner with management to understand business goals and people implications. Build and complete hiring and compensation strategies. Ensure that compensation and sales incentive plans and practices are attuned to the realities of the marketplace, organization capabilities and requirements and are administered efficiently. Leverage data tools to analyze metrics and drive data-driven decision-making, Ensure data integrity with reporting provided to leadership. Collaborate with COE Experts to complete and implement large-scale HR initiatives (i.e. roll out annual programs, new programs/policies, etc.)

How will you get here:

• A bachelor’s degree in business administration, human resources, or adjacent fields is the required minimum education.

• 5+ years of related experience in all aspects of human resources (staffing, compensation, employee relations and organizational development). Commercial experience preferred but not required. Global experience useful.
• PHR/SPHR and/or other Professional Certifications desirable

• In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Comfortable working with ambiguity
• Validated business insight across multiple subject areas
• Exceeds at building and being a partner across teams internally and externally
• Strong action orientation with a high degree of initiative
• Autonomous able to act on day-to-day work with limited instruction, general instructions on new assignments.
• Keeps commitments; exhibits courage - is not afraid to establish a visible presence and point of view, to engage in constructive debate, to hold others accountable Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills are needed.
• Exposure to process improvement efforts (i.e. six sigma, practical process improvement) a plus.
• Confirmed variable compensation experience in a Commercial environment
• Demonstrates personal awareness and desire for continual learning and personal development
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
• Ability to use a tact, diplomacy, discretion and empathy/understanding in a global environment.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• Efficiently communicates information and ideas in written and visual reporting formats
• Ability to articulate analysis with strong presentation skills and contribute to executive-level discourse
• Fluent with MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Flexibility to travel as required.

Working Conditions and Environment:

• Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Travel, both domestic and international.
• Interaction with clients/associates required.
• Long varied hours required occasionally.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day
• Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.

• Moderate mobility required.
• Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
• Ability to access and use computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
• Ability to apply abstract principles to solve conceptual issues.  Requires multiple periods of driven concentration.
• Performs a variety of tasks as needed by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. 
• Regular and consistent attendance.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.