Director, People Business Partner

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range:

$133,300.00 - $219,100.00

Do you dream about reinventing the Human Resources function by focusing on deepening the employee experience and emboldening a purpose-centered culture? Do you aspire to transform talent through mission centered guiding principles? Do you want to contribute to a company that improves lives through innovative health science? Do you deserve a career where you are empowered and trusted? If yes, come to Bio-Techne.  

As the Director, People Business Partner you will serve as a strategic HR partner and hold responsibility for overseeing all People initiatives within your assigned division. As such, you will: partner with business leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, culture transformation, and change management capabilities; and partner globally within a OneHR team to support the business in achieving these goals.  

This is a hybrid position based out of Minneapolis, reporting into the Vice President of Human Resources.  

Function Overview:

• Organization Effectiveness: Create and align processes and methods for efficiency that are modern and sustainable; deliver nimble execution of plans and strategies; utilize talent systems; practice collaboration across all HR centers of excellence.  

• Talent Management: Lead with a global mindset and assist with assessing, hiring, engaging, and retaining for talent succession. Partner with the business leaders to proactively build talent forecasting strategies and workforce plans, staying attuned to market trends within the life sciences industry.  

• Leadership Development: Work closely with senior leaders and managers to build organizational capability by utilizing a range of strategic people-related processes and programs including talent management, performance management and resource planning. Support the leadership capability development to create a qualified internal candidate pool to support growth.  

• Leader Partner: Facilitate and drive strategic discussions with the business leaders on organization design and structure to sustain growth across the Division(s). Support the leadership by building associated change management strategies and playbooks. 

• People Optimization: Provide a leadership role across the segment in enhancing the people experience through strategic partnership, global practices and streamlined processes.  

Accountabilities:  

• Steward Bio-Techne’s culture values. 

• Lead People Talent imperatives and advance the strategic roadmap. 

• Build talent 

• Co-create always on recruiting  

• Deepen employee experience 

• Fortify Belonging 

• Integrate learning & development  

• Optimize talent systems  

• Invest in the growth and development of broader People business partners. 

• Apply depth and breadth of human resources expertise to solve problems proactively and reactively. 

• Drive organizational effectiveness by supporting and implementing Bio-Teche’s culture framework and tools for: recruiting, learning & development, Belonging, talent management, workforce planning, performance management, organizational development, internal communication, operational excellence and total rewards health. 

• Collaborate with People COEs to implement and drive adoption of practices and processes across all facets of People. 

• Utilize talent systems and people data for progressive effectiveness and efficiency. 

• Contribute to continuous improvement by setting growth standards, committing to quality experiences and leading an internal service model to assure market leadership. 

• Challenge with composure and professionalism. 

• Proactively partner to solve problems with creativity and a growth mindset. 

• Address employee relations issues to create an engaging environment, drive compliance and resolve performance/behavioral issues. 

• Lead large-scale organizational change with a track record of successful change management. 

• Lead talent architect and leadership development.