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Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
The Senior Human Resources Manager is instrumental in fostering the One Novanta Culture and advancing manager capability, engagement, and scalable organizational growth. As a critical partner to People Leaders in the country and collaborating closely with the BU Talent Partner, this role ensures the delivery of high-quality HR support across the country/region through a team of local HRE professionals. By coaching front-line managers throughout the employee lifecycle—including development, engagement, performance management, onboarding, and workforce planning—this role strengthens managerial effectiveness.
This position ensures consistent local adoption and application of HR programs, processes, and tools. As an advocate for the HR Function Operating Model, this role and their team guides managers in adopting MSS/ESS and HR AI tools, while continuously identifying opportunities for HR functional improvement.
The Senior Human Resources Manager is accountable for maintaining compliance with local labor laws across all jurisdictions in their scope, in partnership with HR Centers of Excellence, HR Operations, legal, and external labor law vendors, to ensure adherence in all HR programs, processes, policies, and tools.
Responsibilities
Leads and coaches a team of HRE professionals who drive consistency in HR delivery to local managers and stakeholders enabling flexibility, scale and a One Novanta Employee experience.
Acts as a SME and escalation point for their team members in these areas.
Responsible for the attraction, development, engagement and retention of HRE Team members. Owns their succession plan by driving talent, development and performance management within their team. Solicits feedback from key stakeholders, such as Talent Partners and Site Leaders/Engagement Leaders, to gather performance insights and identify development opportunities of HRE Team members.
Ensures all employees within the region experience HR uniformly by leveraging standard enterprise-wide HR processes, programs, and tools deployed and trained by the CoE’s to execute HR cycles processes. Ensure HRE professionals are coaching on these programs in a consistent manner. Trains on HR programs and processes within the scope of HRE.
Ensures local compliance to all labor laws within jurisdictions in all actions taken, and in all programs rolled out by HR CoEs and other Novanta functions. Collaborates with CoE’s to define local policies and practices to ensure compliance.
Drives continuous improvement of work processes in scope utilizing NGS methods including established change management practices and tools. Looks for location and country trends across HR Programs, processes and tools to identify improvements projects with a focus on automation and AI enablement. Partners with regional counterparts and Global HRE Leader on global process improvement projects.
Determines how HRE team is deployed to Novanta sites using benchmarked methodologies.
Partner with local People Leaders to deploy workforce plans including hiring, organization re-designs and reductions in force. Coordinates the HRE team in deploying workforce plans that span multiple locations/ BU’s to ensure consistent employee experience.
Reviews relevant employee data to identify workforce trends, including engagement and attrition data, with site stakeholders within the country to uncover trends and actions HRE team will support to drive improvement.
May act as a member of a crisis management team, if needed.
May act in the capacity of an HR Enablement Manager for a specific site/client allocation.
M&A activities as applicable for country.
Requirements
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in business administration, HR management or related field
Graduate degree preferred
Experience:
7+ years of experience in Human Resources, preferably in a mid to large size company with a scaled HR Organizational Design.
4 Years experience in at least one country of Region HR
At least 1 year of experience leading a team
Skills & Competencies:
Deep understanding of HR processes, policies, and systems, including HR technology platforms and shared services delivery models
Demonstrated success of identifying, leading and delivering opportunities of process efficiencies through technology/automation/AI. Continuous learner in the future of HR and AI/ Automation opportunities to drive organizations strategy in a scalable way.
Effective people leader with experience building a high performing team in a scaled HR organization.
Strong change management skills to support team growth and transformation
Clear understanding of business operations and how HR can support strategic outcomes. Experience building the capabilities to support this on their team.
Proven ability to engage, inspire, and influence local people leaders. Effective team player and networker with a collaborative mindset to lead without direct line leadership authority.
Proficient in analyzing workforce data to recognize trends and develop actionable recommendations. Applies insights to improve HR services and inform strategy.
Proven ability to support leaders with effective performance management processes.
Deep competence in conflict resolution, dispute management, and navigating complex employee relations issues with tact, calm, and professionalism.
Experience with change management
Thorough understanding of compensation administration and legal compliance across diverse environments.
Experience with organizational design preferred
Physical Requirements:
May require regular travel to cover another site within your job scope. Travel to average not more than once per month.
May require travel to cover another site outside of your job scope for special projects.
Sitting for extended periods at a desk
Occasional standing or walking to attend meetings and go to the gemba
Lifting light objects under 20 pounds
Compensation:
The salary for this role will range from 123,785 to 198,075 annually based on full-time employment. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to location, relevant skills, training, experience, education, etc.
Certain roles may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives. Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
Novanta supports all aspects of your life’s needs. This position provides a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits to make your quality of life better.
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.
Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.
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What We Do
Novanta delivers innovations that matter for its medical and advanced industrial OEM customers. If you have a passion for solving complex technical problems that lead to breakthrough performance and that enhance people's lives, come join our growing team. Here is a sample of the many exciting applications we serve: • Innovations that ensure the safety of patients and efficient workflows in hospitals using our novel RFID technology • Innovations in additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D metal printing, using our lightning fast lasers and laser beam steering sub-systems • Innovations in minimally invasive surgery using our highly reliable insufflators, pumps and visualization systems • Innovations in robotics and automation using our precision motors, encoders and drives for superior accuracy • Innovations in smartphone production using our fast, accurate lasers and laser beam steering equipment along with our precision motion systems The driving force behind our growth is the team of talented professionals who share our commitment to our values, and our passion for innovation and for our customers’ success. Novanta has deep expertise in precision medicine and manufacturing, medical solutions, and robotics and automation: Precision Medicine and Manufacturing: • Continuous wave, ultrafast and CO2 lasers, along with laser beam steering components and sub-systems Brands: ARGES, Cambridge Technology, Laser Quantum, Synrad Medical Solutions: Minimally Invasive Surgery: • Insufflators, pumps and disposable tube sets; medical visualization systems, video processing and wireless imaging Brands: NDS, Med X Change, Reach Technology, WOM Detection & Analysis: • RFID readers, machine vision solutions, barcode scanning, light and color measurement Brands: JADAK Robotics and Automation: • Motors, encoders, servo drives, air bearing systems and integrated mechatronic solutions Brands: ATI, Celera Motion (inc. Applimotion, Ingenia, MicroE, Zettlex, Westwind)
