Senior HR Business Partner

Overview

Element is seeking a Senior Human Resources Business Partner (Sr HRBP) to join our Americas Life Sciences team. As the Sr HRBP, you will play a pivotal role in aligning HR strategies with the organization’s overall people objectives across multiple laboratory divisions.  This role requires a deep understanding of the business, strong strategic thinking, and excellent interpersonal skills.

Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, front-line leaders, and employees, the Snr HRBP collaborates closely with the Colleague Experience team to deliver programs that are strategically aligned with both business and workforce planning goals. This role is team-centric and focuses on fostering a cohesive and inclusive workplace culture that supports both employee well-being and business success.

 

This is a remote position with intermittent travel.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to assigned leadership teams within the Life Sciences division, focusing on planning and executing the people components of the business strategy; driving organizational capacity, enhancing capability, improving people's experience, and managing risk. Additionally, focus on fostering people's performance and development to ensure high performance and alignment with the business goals.
• Partner with the Colleague Experience team to address employee concerns, conflicts, and grievances in a timely and fair manner, while adhering to company policies and legal regulations.
• Stay up to date with employment laws, regulations, and industry best practices to ensure HR policies and practices are compliant.
• Advise managers and employees on legal and ethical matters related to employment.
• Assist in implementing compensation and benefits programs that attract, retain, and motivate employees. 
• Develop business acumen to understand key drivers of business performance and support delivering results.
• Influence and support the development and delivery of programs, processes and services within the HR team.
• Work collaboratively with business leadership team to create an integrated approach to employee development, talent reviews, succession planning and internal development and mobility to enable leaders to meet current and future workforce requirements.
• Champion the implementation of HR initiatives, such as leadership development, succession planning and training.
• Assist in the implementation of the performance framework, such as annual reviews and ongoing feedback conversations.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team to assess recruitment needs around the talent acquisition strategy in development of workforce planning initiatives and collaborate with the Talent Acquisition team to deliver relevant strategies.
• Provide change management consulting to support the successful execution of change.
• Leverage internal and external people trends to influence the business to deliver on the strategic plan.
• Gather feedback from lab leadership teams regularly to ensure planning, projects, services, and support being provided aligns to business area needs.

Skills / Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in human resources roles, with a focus on strategic HRBP responsibilities.
• Strong knowledge of HR practices, employment laws, and regulations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and execute tactically.
• Proficiency with Human Resources Information Systems and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Travel is required up to 25% of the time.

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Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

 

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

 

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and rewa