Sr. Director, HR – Lead. Influence. Make an Impact.

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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.
• Builds leadership readiness, addresses capability gaps, and promotes talent development and mobility across the enterprise.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree plus 10 years progressive HR leadership in a global, complex organization

• Direct experience partnering with revenue-driving leaders with demonstrated success implementing transformative initiatives that drive business results

• Strong analytical and financial acumen, and comfort discussing margin, productivity, and capital allocation

• Executive presence and composure under pressure

• Structured thinker who synthesizes complexity into clear, actionable paths

• Ability to challenge respectfully while maintaining trust

• Resilience in fast-paced, high-expectation environments

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support colleagues professionally and personally, including competitive compensation, incentive opportunities, health and wellbeing benefits, retirement and savings programs, paid time off, and career development opportunities.

Join us and help shape the talent, leaders, and organization that will drive what’s next.

Compensation and Benefits

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards