Senior HR Generalist

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Sr. HR Generalist will serve as a primary BHR partner for the Infectious Disease Molecular and R&D Organizations based in Maine. In this role you will establish, build, and maintain strong relationships with functional employees, supervisors, managers, and leadership to enhance workforce performance by supporting employee development, planning strategic HR initiatives, and serving as a consultant on all general HR issues while developing and implementing HR strategies to meet organizational needs.

This position works out of our Scarborough, ME locations.

What You’ll Work On

• The Sr. HR Generalist will work closely with the division BHR Director, Local BHR Partners, Corporate HR functions, and functional leadership to provide a wide range of essential HR support for the Infectious Disease function.
• Partners with the division BHR Director and local BHR Partners; acts as a strategic business partner for the assigned functions.
• Establish, build, and maintain strong relationships with site employees, supervisors, managers, and site leadership to enhance workforce performance by supporting employee development, planning HR initiatives, delivering corporate programs, and serving as a consultant on all general HR issues.
• The Sr. HR Generalist will own HR Metrics and Analytics for the areas of responsibility, which includes data gathering, data analysis, and dashboards/reporting. The ability to draw insights from data, and design HR strategies based on those insights is critical in this role.
• With minimal supervision of HR management, support the businesses HR needs in partnership with the division BHR Director, Local BHR Partners and corporate HR practice centers. This includes supporting the employee life cycle processes: attraction, recruiting, onboarding, learning/development, engagement/retention, performance management, employee problem-solving, offboarding.
• Responsible for function/site-level talent review processes (strategy, discussion, action planning).
• Identify training and development priorities for the employees and the site(s).
• Be an ambassador for the corporate HR programs; ensure all communications and site activities are coordinated with the corporate HR project teams.
• Manage and improve the new employee orientation/onboarding processes at the sites to improve the employee experience.
• Partners with managers to maintain job descriptions, career paths/hierarchies, and employee data management.
• Partners with employee relations and managers to ensure a positive and safe work environment.
• Partners with other divisional site HR to coordinate the roll out of programs, share best practices, and ensure consistent delivery of HR processes.
• Educates the site employees and managers on Abbo