About Us
Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.
For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.
Strategic HR Business Partner-Executive Director
What You Will Do
The Strategic HR Business Partner, Executive Director is a senior HR leadership role accountable for improving business performance by driving disciplined execution of workforce strategy, talent systems, and organizational effectiveness across a large business unit, sector, or complex function.
This leader will partner closely with senior business leaders to translate strategy into measurable workforce and talent outcomes. The role establishes a strong operating rhythm, drives clear follow-through, and strengthens leader ownership of talent, workforce, performance, and organizational decisions.
The Executive Director will enable strategy, planning, and execution against three primary sources of business demand:
Annual operating plans and associated business performance metrics
Strategic initiatives and workforce plans
Colleague experience and organizational effectiveness
Success requires strong business acumen, executive-level influence, disciplined execution, data-driven problem solving, and the ability to activate enterprise HR products and talent systems at scale.
How You Will Do It: Our Winning Behaviors
At Johnson Controls, how we deliver results matters. This leader will model and embed our Winning Behaviors across the organization.
Focus on What Matters
Go to Gemba with leaders to understand business realities firsthand.
Use business, workforce, and talent data to diagnose root causes and identify the issues that have the greatest impact on performance.
Prioritize the critical talent, leadership, and organizational challenges that matter most to the business.
Activate enterprise HR products and solutions where they can create the greatest value.
Win as One Team
Collaborate across HR Product teams, Centers of Excellence, HR Operations, PMO, Workforce Analytics, and business leadership to deliver integrated solutions.
Align leaders to enterprise standards while actively influencing and shaping solutions to ensure they address business needs.
Build alignment across functions and geographies to improve consistency, execution, and enterprise outcomes.
Own the Outcome
Take accountability for business and talent outcomes, not simply HR activity.
Ensure leaders own their people, workforce, performance, and talent decisions.
Translate strategy into execution through disciplined adoption of enterprise talent systems.
Identify and remove barriers that limit organizational or workforce performance.
Establish clear expectations, ownership, measures, and follow-through.
Improve Every Day
Seek truth through data, business results, and leader feedback.
Use structured problem solving to identify root causes and execution gaps.
Continuously improve talent systems, leader capability, organizational effectiveness, and workforce outcomes.
Approach improvement with urgency, curiosity, and humility.
How You Will Lead
As Strategic HR Business Partner, Executive Director, you will serve as:
Business Strategy Translator
Connect business priorities, operating plans, and financial drivers to workforce execution.
Translate business strategy into leadership capability, workforce priorities, organizational actions, and disciplined talent-system execution.
Ensure workforce and talent strategies result in measurable…