Global HR Business Lead North America

Agfa HealthCare, part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group (Euronext Brussels: AGFB), is a global leader in Imaging IT software solutions. With a singular focus on enabling healthcare providers to manage imaging data effectively and sustainably, we are a trusted partner to healthcare professionals around the world.

From product development to implementation, our unified Enterprise Imaging Platform is purpose-built to reduce complexity, improve productivity, and deliver clinical value. We use our proven track record as an innovator, our in-depth medical knowledge, and our strategic guidance to help healthcare providers achieve their clinical, operational, and business strategies.

 

Agfa HealthCare is undergoing a strategic transformation toward a SaaS-based business model, representing a fundamental shift in how we operate, engage talent, and build organizational capability. This transformation brings exciting opportunities for global workforce evolution — including developing future-ready skills, driving cultural change, and enabling agile, customer-centric teams. At the same time, it introduces HR-specific challenges such as redefining roles, managing organizational design shifts, aligning incentives to a recurring revenue model, and supporting leaders through change.

 

Agfa Group is seeking a dynamic and strategic Global HR Business Leader for its HealthCare IT division. This is a pivotal leadership role to support organizational transformation and drive performance in a key growth division of the Group. The successful candidate will serve as a critical partner to the President of HealthCare IT and the Agfa executive team, shaping and enabling the division’s strategic ambitions.

 

Being part of the Agfa Global HR Leadership Team, you will lead the global HR function for HealthCare IT, driving strategic people initiatives that enable business transformation, workforce effectiveness, and organizational growth. This role ensures strong alignment of the HR strategy with business objectives through global workforce planning, talent initiatives, change management, and organizational and leadership development. You will partner closely with senior leaders to support transformational business model priorities while also overseeing core HR processes as performance management, merit & bonus processes, talent reviews, succession planning, recruitments of senior leaders, and employee engagement strategies. This role requires a blend of hands-on HR execution, strategic insight, and exceptional business partnering capabilities across a global landscape.

 

As the Global HR Business Partner, you will play a key role in strategizing and navigating this transition, embedding new ways of working, and shaping an organization that thrives in a subscription-driven, cloud-based environment.

 

 

What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities):

 

• Advocate for your business requirements within the global HR function and drive consistency on global policies, programs, systems, etc, from the global HR function within your business area.

•  Act as a strategic advisor to the President of HealthCare IT and senior management in aligning HR initiatives with business objectives, providing counsel/guidance on organizational design, employee development, and other key HR functions to drive business performance.

• Partner closely with leadership to facilitate the Saas Business model transition from an HR perspective, ensuring alignment of people, organization and process.

• Change Management: Partner, support & enable

• Lead the full HR cycle for the division, including merit bonus processes, performance management & calibrations, talent management & succession planning, employee engagement, organization design, and recruitment of senior positions.

• Lead and manage global HR projects with cross-functional teams, applying strong project management methodology and stakeholder engagement.

• Design and implement organizational development strategies to support high performance, agility, and scalability.

• Facilitate leadership sessions, team effectiveness workshops, and transformation programs to drive engagement and alignment.

• Lead change management efforts to support organizational restructuring, process redesign, and system implementations globally.

• Analyze workforce data and trend