Site HR Head Wilmington & HR Country Lead US
Siegfried · Pennsville, NJ · 1 mo ago
Human Resources$172k–$230k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: "Your Role:" which is responsibilities. "Your Profile:" which includes responsibilities again? Actually "Your Profile:" includes bullet points of duties. Then "What you bring..." is qualifications/requirements/skills. Then "Your Benefits:" includes benefits and compensation. Also there is a paragraph about company intro etc. That could be "About the role" or "About the company". The instruction: use
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: "Your Role:" which is responsibilities. "Your Profile:" which includes responsibilities again? Actually "Your Profile:" includes bullet points of duties. Then "What you bring..." is qualifications/requirements/skills. Then "Your Benefits:" includes benefits and compensation. Also there is a paragraph about company intro etc. That could be "About the role" or "About the company". The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- Intro paragraph: "Expect to grow...". That's about company culture. Could be "About the role" or maybe "About the company". Since they said "About the role" as example, we could use that for the introductory description.
- "Your Role:" is responsibilities.
- "Your Profile:" includes more responsibilities/duties (maybe combine with responsibilities). Could be part of Responsibilities.
- "What you bring..." is qualifications/requirements/skills.
- "Your Benefits:" includes compensation and benefits.
We also have Pay: salary range $172k-$230k, short-term incentive, long-term incentive. That's Pay.
Benefits: 401(k) Match, Medical/Dental/Vision, Life/Sickness/Accident insurance, Long-term disability, Increased Voluntary Life Insurance optional.
Schedule: not mentioned. So we should not create Schedule section.
We should not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to avoid boilerplate like EEO etc. There's none.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's structure:
About the role
Expect to grow, personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior HR leader for the Wilmington site while coordinating selected HR activities across the U.S. organization.
- Translate business strategy into people solutions that drive performance, organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and sustainable growth.
- Work closely with site leadership, employees, and global HR colleagues, acting as a trusted advisor, fostering a high-performance culture while ensuring compliance with labor regulations and company policies.
- As HR Country Lead, coordinate key people initiatives across U.S. locations, promoting consistency, efficiency, and excellence in HR practices.
- Partner with the Site Leadership Team to develop and execute a people strategy aligned with business and operational objectives.
- Lead the site HR function, ensuring effective workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, employee engagement, and organizational development.
- Drive change management, transformation initiatives, and culture-building efforts that support business growth and operational excellence.
- Provide strategic guidance on leadership effectiveness, performance management, and organizational health.
- Lead employee relations activities, including investigations, workplace concerns, grievance resolution, and compliance matters.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, company policies, and internal controls.
- Collaborate with Legal, Communications, and business leaders on sensitive workforce matters.
- Support talent acquisition activities for critical roles and strengthen employer branding initiatives.
- Oversee onboarding, learning and development, leadership development, and employee growth programs.
- Ensure effective governance of payroll, benefits administration, HR operations, time and attendance processes, and HR data quality.
- Utilize HR metrics and analytics to identify trends, mitigate workforce risks, and support business decision-making.
- Manage the site HR budget and continuously improve HR processes and service delivery.
- Coordinate selected country-level HR initiatives across U.S. sites, ensuring alignment with global HR policies and standards.
- Facilitate collaboration among HR leaders across locations and act as the HR point of contact for national employment and compliance topics.
- Support implementation of global HR programs and contribute to international HR projects.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, Psychology, Business, Law, or a related field.
- Master's degree or advanced HR qualification preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive HR leadership experience within a multinational organization.
- Proven experience leading HR in a manufacturing, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or similarly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated success partnering with senior business leaders and leadership teams.
- Strong expertise in U.S. labor and employment law, employee relations, and organizational change.
- Experience working in matrix and multi-site organizations.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to align people strategies with business priorities.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
- Ability to lead through change and build trusted relationships at all levels of the organization.
- High degree of integrity, professionalism, and cultural awareness.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience leveraging HR data and insights to drive decisions.
We could also have a Skills section but qualifications cover skills. The instruction says we can use Skills heading if we have specific skill content. But we already have many skill-like items in qualifications. Might be okay to not add separate Skills.
Benefits
- 401(k) Match
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Offerings
- Life, Sickness and Accident insurance
- Long-term disability
- Increased Voluntary Life Insurance (employee and family) (optional)
Pay
The salary for this role is anticipated to be between $172,000 and $230,000.
Short-term incentive programs recognizing both performance and contribution.
Long-term incentive plan focused on sustained value creation.
We should not include Schedule.
Check for any duplicated content: We have responsibilities from "Your Role:" and "Your Profile:" combined. Ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The "Your Profile:" bullet list includes many items we captured. Also there is a sentence: "In that role, you will..." then bullet list. We captured those as responsibilities.
Check "What you bring..." we captured as qualifications.
Check "Your Benefits:" includes also "Professional Growth & Impact" and "Compensation & Incentives" subsections. We captured compensation under Pay, and benefits under Benefits. The "Professional Growth & Impact" paragraph is more about role impact; could be part of About the role or Responsibilities. But we already have About the role intro. Could add a paragraph under About the role about growth. However we already used the intro paragraph for About the role. The "Professional Growth & Impact" is separate but could be considered part of About the role or Responsibilities. To preserve all substantive info, we should include it somewhere. Perhaps we can add a second paragraph under About the role after the intro, covering Professional Growth & Impact. Let's do that.
Thus About the role section will have two paragraphs: first the intro paragraph, second the Professional Growth & Impact paragraph.
Let's extract that paragraph:
"Professional Growth & Impact You'll find a dynamic, international environment with room to take ownership and make a long term sustainable impact. You will have the opportunity to shape the people agenda at a strategically important site while influencing HR practices across the United States. This role offers broad exposure to business leadership, global HR initiatives, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on organizational performance, employee experience, and long-term business success. Through your impact and Individual development solutions you'll grow personally and professionally at a fast pace. You'll collaborate with an experienced, passionate teams that values excellence, quality and continuous learning."
We need to ensure we keep the text exactly as given, but we can format as a paragraph.
Now we need to ensure we didn't miss any other substantive info: The company description after benefits: "Founded in 1873..." That's about the company. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate "About the company". But we already have About the role; we could add another paragraph about company background. However the instruction says to include a section only when posting has real specific content for it. We could add a paragraph under About the role about company background. That would preserve all info.
Thus About the role will have three paragraphs: intro, professional growth & impact, company background.
Let's extract company background:
"Founded in 1873 in Zofingen, Switzerland, Siegfried has grown into a global network of 16 sites across three continents. With a team of more than 4,200 highly skilled professionals, we take the innovations of our pharmaceutical customers to industrial scale and manufacture safe drugs for patients worldwide. As a fully integrated CDMO, Siegfried is one of the few organizations today that can carry out the development and manufacturing of APIs and finished dosage forms under one roof. This unique combination of know-how and experience makes us the most trusted partner in the pharmaceutical industry."
We'll include that as a paragraph.
Now check for any other info: The "Your Role:" paragraph includes also "As Site HR Head Wilmington & HR Country Lead USA". That's a role title but we are not to repeat job title as heading. It's fine to include in responsibilities.
We have captured that as first responsibility bullet.
Now ensure we didn't inadvertently create any empty sections.
Now produce HTML.
We need to use for each section heading.
We'll output:
About the role
...
...
...
Responsibilities
...
Qualifications
...
Benefits
...
Pay
...
...
...
Make sure no extra whitespace issues.
Let's craft the paragraphs exactly.
Paragraph 1 (intro): "Expect to grow", personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact.
Note: The original text starts with '"Expect to grow", personally and professionally:' with quotes. We'll keep that.
Paragraph 2 (Professional Growth & Impact): "Professional Growth & Impact You'll find a dynamic, international environment with room to take ownership and make a long term sustainable impact. You will have the opportunity to shape the people agenda at a strategically important site while influencing HR practices across the United States. This role offers broad exposure to business leadership, global HR initiatives, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on organizational performance, employee experience, and long-term business success. Through your impact and
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. We need to avoid boilerplate like EEO etc. There's none. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's structure:
About the role
Expect to grow, personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior HR leader for the Wilmington site while coordinating selected HR activities across the U.S. organization.
- Translate business strategy into people solutions that drive performance, organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and sustainable growth.
- Work closely with site leadership, employees, and global HR colleagues, acting as a trusted advisor, fostering a high-performance culture while ensuring compliance with labor regulations and company policies.
- As HR Country Lead, coordinate key people initiatives across U.S. locations, promoting consistency, efficiency, and excellence in HR practices.
- Partner with the Site Leadership Team to develop and execute a people strategy aligned with business and operational objectives.
- Lead the site HR function, ensuring effective workforce planning, talent management, succession planning, employee engagement, and organizational development.
- Drive change management, transformation initiatives, and culture-building efforts that support business growth and operational excellence.
- Provide strategic guidance on leadership effectiveness, performance management, and organizational health.
- Lead employee relations activities, including investigations, workplace concerns, grievance resolution, and compliance matters.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, company policies, and internal controls.
- Collaborate with Legal, Communications, and business leaders on sensitive workforce matters.
- Support talent acquisition activities for critical roles and strengthen employer branding initiatives.
- Oversee onboarding, learning and development, leadership development, and employee growth programs.
- Ensure effective governance of payroll, benefits administration, HR operations, time and attendance processes, and HR data quality.
- Utilize HR metrics and analytics to identify trends, mitigate workforce risks, and support business decision-making.
- Manage the site HR budget and continuously improve HR processes and service delivery.
- Coordinate selected country-level HR initiatives across U.S. sites, ensuring alignment with global HR policies and standards.
- Facilitate collaboration among HR leaders across locations and act as the HR point of contact for national employment and compliance topics.
- Support implementation of global HR programs and contribute to international HR projects.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, Psychology, Business, Law, or a related field.
- Master's degree or advanced HR qualification preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive HR leadership experience within a multinational organization.
- Proven experience leading HR in a manufacturing, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or similarly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated success partnering with senior business leaders and leadership teams.
- Strong expertise in U.S. labor and employment law, employee relations, and organizational change.
- Experience working in matrix and multi-site organizations.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to align people strategies with business priorities.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
- Ability to lead through change and build trusted relationships at all levels of the organization.
- High degree of integrity, professionalism, and cultural awareness.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience leveraging HR data and insights to drive decisions.
Benefits
- 401(k) Match
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Offerings
- Life, Sickness and Accident insurance
- Long-term disability
- Increased Voluntary Life Insurance (employee and family) (optional)
Pay
The salary for this role is anticipated to be between $172,000 and $230,000.
Short-term incentive programs recognizing both performance and contribution.
Long-term incentive plan focused on sustained value creation.
We should not include Schedule. Check for any duplicated content: We have responsibilities from "Your Role:" and "Your Profile:" combined. Ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The "Your Profile:" bullet list includes many items we captured. Also there is a sentence: "In that role, you will..." then bullet list. We captured those as responsibilities. Check "What you bring..." we captured as qualifications. Check "Your Benefits:" includes also "Professional Growth & Impact" and "Compensation & Incentives" subsections. We captured compensation under Pay, and benefits under Benefits. The "Professional Growth & Impact" paragraph is more about role impact; could be part of About the role or Responsibilities. But we already have About the role intro. Could add a paragraph under About the role about growth. However we already used the intro paragraph for About the role. The "Professional Growth & Impact" is separate but could be considered part of About the role or Responsibilities. To preserve all substantive info, we should include it somewhere. Perhaps we can add a second paragraph under About the role after the intro, covering Professional Growth & Impact. Let's do that. Thus About the role section will have two paragraphs: first the intro paragraph, second the Professional Growth & Impact paragraph. Let's extract that paragraph: "Professional Growth & Impact You'll find a dynamic, international environment with room to take ownership and make a long term sustainable impact. You will have the opportunity to shape the people agenda at a strategically important site while influencing HR practices across the United States. This role offers broad exposure to business leadership, global HR initiatives, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on organizational performance, employee experience, and long-term business success. Through your impact and Individual development solutions you'll grow personally and professionally at a fast pace. You'll collaborate with an experienced, passionate teams that values excellence, quality and continuous learning." We need to ensure we keep the text exactly as given, but we can format as a paragraph. Now we need to ensure we didn't miss any other substantive info: The company description after benefits: "Founded in 1873..." That's about the company. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate "About the company". But we already have About the role; we could add another paragraph about company background. However the instruction says to include a section only when posting has real specific content for it. We could add a paragraph under About the role about company background. That would preserve all info. Thus About the role will have three paragraphs: intro, professional growth & impact, company background. Let's extract company background: "Founded in 1873 in Zofingen, Switzerland, Siegfried has grown into a global network of 16 sites across three continents. With a team of more than 4,200 highly skilled professionals, we take the innovations of our pharmaceutical customers to industrial scale and manufacture safe drugs for patients worldwide. As a fully integrated CDMO, Siegfried is one of the few organizations today that can carry out the development and manufacturing of APIs and finished dosage forms under one roof. This unique combination of know-how and experience makes us the most trusted partner in the pharmaceutical industry." We'll include that as a paragraph. Now check for any other info: The "Your Role:" paragraph includes also "As Site HR Head Wilmington & HR Country Lead USA". That's a role title but we are not to repeat job title as heading. It's fine to include in responsibilities. We have captured that as first responsibility bullet. Now ensure we didn't inadvertently create any empty sections. Now produce HTML. We need to usefor each section heading. We'll output:
About the role
...
...
...
Responsibilities
- ...
Qualifications
- ...
Benefits
- ...
Pay
...
...
...
Make sure no extra whitespace issues. Let's craft the paragraphs exactly. Paragraph 1 (intro): "Expect to grow", personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact. Note: The original text starts with '"Expect to grow", personally and professionally:' with quotes. We'll keep that. Paragraph 2 (Professional Growth & Impact): "Professional Growth & Impact You'll find a dynamic, international environment with room to take ownership and make a long term sustainable impact. You will have the opportunity to shape the people agenda at a strategically important site while influencing HR practices across the United States. This role offers broad exposure to business leadership, global HR initiatives, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on organizational performance, employee experience, and long-term business success. Through your impact and