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Chelmsford, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Jun 2026
💰 $154,700/yr($103,100/yr – $154,700/yr)

About the role

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

HR Manager – PPA MA Sites

How will you make an impact:

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information:

This position will support both the Bedford, MA and Chelmsford, MA sites within our BioProduction Group.

Discover Impactful Work:  

This is an impactful role for the organization requiring the ability to truly partner with business leaders supporting/driving tactical and critical initiatives. The Site HR Manager will translate business and site strategy into HR strategy, plans and solutions. The role will partner with the site to hire, engage, and develop talent to build the capabilities required for short and long-term success. As a trusted advisor to the site, business and functional leaders, this role will guide and take action in all aspects of HR including Performance Management, Employee Relations, Compensation, Engagement and Retention.  

Key Responsibilities:  

  • Provide HR solutions support, process knowledge advice and consultation to assigned client groups.  

  • Act as a strategic partner in developing roadmaps to accomplish business goals  

  • Org Design- partners with business as consultant and change agent for org design  

  • Subject matter expert in areas of HR policies and processes  

  • Mentor managers and leaders on issues including restructuring, investigations and other complex employee issues.  

  • Conduct compensation analysis in partnership with COE's to resolve local compensation needs and actions.  

  • Works with talent acquisition team, to drive recruitment efforts.  

  • Partners with collaborators or a leadership team to review and analyze employee survey results and identify priority areas for improvement, enabling managers to implement action plans to improve and sustain efficient involvement levels among colleagues.  

  • Ensures alignment of HR processes (Performance Management and Development (PMD), Performance Calibration, Compensation Planning, etc.) with strategic and operating goals.  

  • Supports the HR platforms (i.e., talent acquisition, compensation.) with large scale initiatives  

Education  

  • Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field.

  • Master's Degree preferred.  

Experience  

  • 4+ years of HR related experience required

Knowledge and Complexity of Role  

  • Ability to collaborate and use the network  

  • High degree of autonomy and strong decision-making skills  

  • Strong Interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.  

  • Leads HR for multiple sites within a specific division/business unit

  • Influences business decisions through advice and counsel with leaders and cross-functional partners.  

  • Routinely makes decisions based on limited information. Adapts quickly to change.  

  • Applies human resources expertise and business sense to lead critical projects and/or relationships.  

  • Implement and develop new programs, models, standards, etc. for the site and/or business teams.  

  • Is recognized as a functional authority  

  • May lead the HR strategy for the site / business teams depending on size of site business teams  

  • Strong knowledge of HR Structure and COE’s 

Compensation and Benefits

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Company

Thermo Fisher Scientific

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