Sr. Director, Human Resources Business Partner

About the role

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of over $45 billion and approximately 125,000 colleagues globally. Our Mission is clear and deeply meaningful: to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic advisor and thoughtful challenger to Steriles NA senior leadership, translating business priorities and financial objectives into an integrated people and organization agenda.
• Anticipate the organizational and workforce implications of business decisions and influence choices that strengthen performance, scalability, execution and long-term organizational health.
• Connect site and network talent priorities to broader division, PSG and enterprise HR strategies while ensuring consistent execution across Greenville, Ridgefield and Plainville.
• Lead strategic workforce planning and organization design across the three-site network, aligning structure, capacity, leadership and critical capabilities with customer demand, growth, productivity and investment priorities.
• Partner with business and Finance leaders on workforce, cost and productivity decisions; challenge assumptions and ensure talent investments are linked to measurable business outcomes.
• Lead organization redesign and operating model evolution from strategy through implementation, creating clear accountability, effective spans and layers, and durable organizational solutions.
• Strengthen succession readiness and leadership bench depth for critical site, technical, operational and functional roles through rigorous talent assessment, calibration and differentiated development.
• Coach and challenge senior leaders to elevate leadership effectiveness, accountability and decision quality, including making timely and bold talent decisions.
• Identify critical capability gaps and build development strategies that support evolving sterile manufacturing, customer and business requirements.
• Embed consistent, fair and high-integrity performance management and talent practices across the network, reinforcing accountability and differentiated performance.
• Use workforce, financial and organizational analytics to identify performance opportunities, surface emerging risks and translate complex information into clear executive insights and actions.
• Build a culture grounded in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s 4i Values, strengthening trust, engagement, inclusion, collaboration and execution discipline across sites.
• Shape and lead the people dimensions of significant business transformation, including organizational redesign, productivity and cost optimization, capability shifts, leadership transitions and growth initiatives.
• Advise leaders through complex organizational decisions and mobilize change with clarity, thoughtful sequencing, pace and disciplined execution.
• Partner across HR, Finance, Legal and other stakeholders to manage organizational impacts, risks and implementation effectively.
• Lead across the HR matrix to bring the full capability of HR to the business, setting clear priorities for HR partners and Centers of Excellence across talent, rewards, employee relations, organizational effectiveness and workforce solutions.
• Create alignment and consistency across the three sites while preserving the ability to address distinct local business and workforce needs.
• Influence beyond the immediate client group, share insights and best practices, and contribute to broader division and PSG HR priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience in global, complex organizations.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior business and operational leaders and translating business needs into practical, high-impact people and organization solutions.
• Proven experience in Pharma, Biotech, CDMO or other regulated-industry experience preferred delivering strategic workforce planning, organization design, talent management, succession planning, leadership development, performance management and change leadership.
• Strong analytical, business and financial acumen, with comfort using workforce and financial information to inform decisions related to growth, margin, productivity and investment.
• Ability to understand and support complex scientific, technical and/or manufacturing organizations and their critical talent requirements.
• Executive presence, sound judgment and composure under pressure; able to challenge respectfully while maintaining trust.
• Collaborative approach and able to work with all Centers of Excellence as well as with other HR teams in the company to achieve a common goal.
• Structured thinker who can synthesize complexity into clear, actionable paths and balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead across a matrixed, multi-site environment and mobilize cross-functional stakeholders.
• Resilience and effectiveness in fast-paced, high-expectation environments.
• Travel required - less than 25% - domestic and international.

Schedule

Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri); Office environment.