Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
The Senior Director, Human Resources – Finance & Corporate Strategy serves as a strategic HR Business Partner to senior leaders, translating business priorities into talent, organizational, and workforce strategies that enable performance and long-term growth.
This leader provides strategic HR leadership across talent and succession, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, leadership development, culture, and transformation. Success requires strong business and financial acumen, sound organizational judgment, and the ability to influence and execute in a complex, global, matrixed environment.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic HR Business Partnership
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Finance and Corporate Strategy leaders, translating business priorities into actionable people and organizational strategies.
Anticipate talent, capability, and organizational risks and use data and business insights to shape decisions.
Strengthen organizational effectiveness, accountability, and execution while balancing functional and enterprise priorities.
Talent, Leadership & Succession
Lead talent and succession planning, building strong pipelines and readiness for critical roles.
Coach leaders on talent, performance, leadership effectiveness, and team development.
Identify capability and retention risks and create development and mobility opportunities that strengthen the enterprise talent pipeline.
Organizational Effectiveness & Design
Advise leaders on organizational structure, roles, governance, decision rights, and ways of working to improve effectiveness and productivity.
Diagnose organizational challenges and develop solutions across structure, talent, leadership, and process.
Lead organizational changes that address current performance needs while building future capability.
Transformation & Workforce Strategy
Lead the people and organizational aspects of transformation, restructuring, operating model changes, and other workforce initiatives.
Develop workforce strategies that balance capability, capacity, cost, location, and future business requirements.
Partner with leaders to translate AI, automation, and digital transformation into workforce, skill, and organizational implications.
Culture, Engagement & Leadership Effectiveness
Build an inclusive, high-performance culture aligned with Thermo Fisher Scientific values and business priorities.
Use employee and organizational insights to strengthen engagement, collaboration, accountability, and leadership effectiveness.
Coach leaders to address cultural and organizational barriers and improve team performance.
HR Leadership & OneTeam Partnership
Partner across HR Business Partners, Centers of Excellence, Regional HR, and HR Operations to deliver integrated solutions.
Connect functional priorities with enterprise HR strategies and ensure effective execution of core talent and HR processes.
Use business and HR data to prioritize actions, measure impact, and contribute to broader HR initiatives.
Critical Capabilities
Business & Financial Acumen
Strong understanding of business and financial drivers, with the ability to connect strategy to workforce, talent, and organizational implications.
Strong analytical and data fluency with credibility partnering with senior Finance and Corporate Strategy leaders.
Strategic Influence
Builds trusted senior-level relationships while providing independent judgment and constructive challenge.
Simplifies complexity, influences across organizational boundaries, and translates business needs into practical solutions.
Organizational Effectiveness
Strong organizational design, workforce planning, and change leadership capabilities.
Diagnoses complex organizational issues and implements practical solutions in global, matrixed environments.
Talent & Leadership Development
Strong talent assessment, succession planning, and senior leader coaching capabilities.
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