Senior Vice President of Talent

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

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Build a career powered by innovations that matter. At Novanta, our innovation powered technology products are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing, improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives, and redefining what’s possible. We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing. Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas, and Asia Pacific. Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under the symbol NOVT.

This position is part of Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services global teams. Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development, and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.

Reporting to the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) and participating as a member of the Novanta Extended Leadership Team (ELT), the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Talent will lead the strategic direction and delivery of Novanta’s talent management program. Partnering with the Novanta Leadership Team and HR organization, the SVP of Talent is accountable for developing and implementing a comprehensive talent strategy that builds a high performing culture and a highly engaged workforce with the right skills, capabilities and leadership to accelerate Novanta’s growth to a $2b+ business. Excellence in this role will be achieved through the integration of the right talent tools and technology, enabled by effective, user-centric business processes, operated by capable leaders and HR team members, all in the context of a high performing organizational culture.

• Strategic Talent Leadership: Serve as the thought leader and subject matter expert across the entire talent portfolio, driving the development and execution of a strategic talent agenda that aligns with Novanta’s business goals.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Use internal and external data to plan and anticipate changes in Novanta’s talent needs over the strategic planning period.
• Culture Architect: Lead initiatives to strengthen Novanta's company culture, ensuring alignment with the company's values and mission. Building on our established programs, promote a culture of inclusion and belonging for all employees.
• Talent Planning and Assessment: Drive the talent planning process across Novanta, including a strategic view on multi-year workforce planning, facilitating talent planning sessions with business leaders, and tracking talent movement and actions. Conduct comprehensive assessments of the existing talent pipeline, identifying skill gaps, risks, and opportunities for growth.
• Succession Planning: Develop and implement effective succession planning strategies for executive roles and critical talent, ensuring a strong leadership bench for senior-level and critical roles across the enterprise.
• Employee Engagement: Develop and implement strategies to build high levels of employee engagement across the organization. Foster a positive work environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Talent Solutions: Build and maintain external partnerships with providers to enable talent assessment, development and benchmarking solutions for Novanta.

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Proven experience in a strategic talent management or advisory role, with a focus on talent pipeline development and succession planning.
• Advanced knowledge of talent and succession planning, organization development and design, and leadership assessment processes.
• Strong understanding of talent management principles, practices, and challenges.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex talent issues and develop effective strategies.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders, including leaders, HR business partners, and talent acquisition teams.
• Ability to think strategically combined with a hard wiring to execute.
• Drive to deliver results, accountability, and ownership of work, and operate with a continuous improvement mindset.
• High energy, self-starter who can work independently and within a team environment.
• Travel Requirements: Up to 40% including global locations.

• Mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer.
• Ability to use vision to read computer screens and printed materials.

• Versatile Leader: understands and demonstrates a wide range of leadership styles, knowing when and how to be enabling vs directing, and when to be strategic vs operational.
• Communicator: Demonstrate a commitment to great communication.
• Executive presence:  Demonstrates confidence in working with senior level leaders.  Has a professional, humble approach.
• Roll-up the sleeves: A leader who is used to getting involved, hand-on and working along side the team and other leaders to achieve shared outcomes
• Change manager: Anticipates organizational change and adopts a stakeholder mindset to build effective change and communications materials.
• Externally focused: Maintains a continuous focus on external talent practices and influences.  Is an educator for the organization to keep HR and Leadership striving to exceed external best practices.
• Natural collaborator: Works well with others in the HR and Leadership teams, but also across other departments to build support for talent and culture.
• Influence without authority: gains consensus and builds followership without relying on position and title-based authority.
• Curious and quick learner: Naturally inquisitive.
• Data-centric: Comfortable mining for data and using this to create talent insights and build leadership support for talent programs.

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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