Sr. Director, HR – Lead. Influence. Make an Impact.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Summary
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.
Job description
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
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Incentive Programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Family Support Programs
- Commuter Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Accident Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-term Disability
- Long-term Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company overview
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. The company's mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. With over 100,000 employees globally, Thermo Fisher provides an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience, and pharmaceutical services through its industry-leading brands including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD. The company serves customers across healthcare, life sciences, applied markets, and pharmaceutical sectors, offering solutions that accelerate research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, and increase laboratory productivity. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Thermo Fisher operates globally, delivering critical scientific products, services, and workflow solutions that support researchers, organizations, and companies in addressing some of the world's most pressing issues.