Job Summary: The VP, Human Resources is a strategic leader responsible for shaping and executing global people strategies that enable organizational growth and innovation. This role oversees all aspects of HR, including policy development, compliance with international employment legislation, and talent management across multiple geographies. Acting as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, the VP, Human Resources drives workforce planning, culture initiatives, and employee engagement while ensuring operational excellence in HR systems and processes. Additionally, the position leads global HR teams and partners with business leaders to align talent strategies with business objectives or organizational aspirations.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and Execute Global People Strategy
- Define and implement a comprehensive HR strategy that aligns with the company’s growth objectives and SaaS business model.
- Partner with executive leadership to shape organizational design, workforce planning, and succession strategies for critical roles.
- Ensure HR initiatives support scalability, innovation, and global expansion.
Drive Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning
- Lead global recruitment strategies to attract top-tier technology and SaaS talent.
- Implement data-driven workforce planning to anticipate future skill needs and maintain agility in a rapidly evolving market.
- Build employer branding initiatives to position the organization as a destination for high-performing talent.
Foster Culture and Employee Experience
- Champion a high-performance, inclusive culture that reflects company values.
- Design and oversee programs that enhance employee engagement, well-being, and retention across global teams.
- Serve as a cultural ambassador, ensuring alignment between leadership behaviors and organizational values.
Lead Learning, Development, and Leadership Capability
- Supplement Fortive global learning frameworks to upskill employees and prepare future leaders for SaaS-specific challenges.
- Ensure performance management systems that enable continuous feedback and career growth.
- Drive leadership development programs to strengthen executive and managerial capabilities for Provation.
Ensure Compliance and Risk Management
- Maintain compliance with international labor laws, data privacy regulations, and employment standards across all regions.
- Establish governance frameworks and policies to mitigate legal, financial, and reputational risks.
- Partner with legal counsel on complex employment matters and regulatory changes.
People Leadership:
- Establishes a culture of high standards, rigor, and operational excellence
- Coach, mentor, and manage performance to foster individual growth and accountability, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent by building strong capabilities and creating clear career development pathways/providing opportunities for continuous learning and advancement.
- Cultivate a high-performing culture that promotes engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
- Drives continuous improvement through experimentation, learning agility, going to Gemba and leveraging Fortive Business Systems (FBS) tools
Required Qualifications:
Education & Experience Guidelines
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s degree preferred
- 15+ years relevant experience, with significant tenure in leadership roles
Other Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
- Global Expertise: Proven ability to manage HR operations across multiple geographies, ensuring compliance with international labor laws and data privacy regulations.
- Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated success in developing and executing global people strategies that drive scalability, innovation, and cultural alignment.
- Culture & Change Leadership: Track record of fostering inclusive, high-performance cultures and leading organizational transformation initiatives.
- Collaboration & Influence: Exceptional ability to build strong partnerships with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to align HR strategies with business objectives.
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of business models, financial drivers, and the ability to align talent strategies with organizational growth and profitability.
- Executive Communication: Ability to influence at senior level and present complex strategies clearly.
- Ability to travel 30% required
Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level
Scaling & Aligning
- Customer Obsessed: Starts with the customer’s needs and make decisions with their perspective in mind.
- Strategic: Uses data-driven insights to influence and shape strategies that advance organizational priorities across multiple functions.
- Innovation for Impact: Inspires breakthrough solutions by nurturing ideas through experimentation and embracing diverse perspectives.
- Inspiring: Communicates a compelling vision that energizes and motivates others.
- Builds Extraordinary Teams: Creates a unified leadership group that drives organizational success.
- Courageous: Takes decisive action and tackles tough issues head-on.
- Delivers Results: Leads with high standards and urgency, driving values-based execution for quality, timely, and sustainable results.
- Adaptable: Maintains rigor while continuously experimenting and learning.
- Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba - Observes real-world processes at the source and embraces FBS principles through kaizen, coaching, and leveraging expertise to solve challenges.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About the TeamSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 15+ years of relevant experience
- Significant tenure in leadership roles
- Master's degree
- Experience managing HR operations across multiple geographies
- Knowledge of international labor laws and data privacy regulations
- Experience developing and executing global people strategies
- Experience fostering inclusive, high-performance cultures and leading organizational transformation
- Executive-level collaboration, influence, and communication skills
- Business acumen and ability to align talent strategies with growth and profitability
- Ability to travel 30%
Fortive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fortive and has not been reviewed or approved by Fortive.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is fully paid for 12 weeks for all parents, with fertility coverage via Progyny and generous adoption/surrogacy support. Backup child and adult care plus inclusive eligibility extend support across diverse family structures.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple PPO and HSA medical options include telemedicine and second-opinion services, alongside robust mental-health access through Spring Health with no‑cost therapy sessions. The breadth of medical and behavioral health resources is highlighted as a strength.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) provides a competitive employer match each pay period, with an additional company retirement contribution after one year of service. Financial wellness tools and an employee stock purchase plan further bolster long‑term savings.
Fortive Insights
What We Do
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions. We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions. We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
