Director, HR Business Partner - Americas

About Bruker

Bruker is one of the world’s leading analytical instrumentation companies enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Our high-performance products and high-value life science and diagnostics solutions are trusted by leading businesses, institutes, and scientists worldwide. Today, more than 8.500 employees at over 90 locations are working on this permanent challenge to make the world a better place.

Overview

Bruker is now recruiting for a Director, HRBP America’s Region, based in Billerica, MA in a hybrid capacity. The America’s (AMER) region spans a wide geographic area and covers several countries with primary focus on the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. The business complexity, challenges and talent landscape, varies significantly across the region and the Director, HRBP AMER will be responsible to implement and execute the organizations HR initiatives and key projects across the region.

 

This role will have three primary functions in Bruker’s matrixed HR organization. As a senior level HRBP, the role will strategically support a business group, represent all regional countries across business groups, and act a lead for HR initiatives regionally.

 

The successful candidate should possess superior leadership capability and a desire to effectively work with HR colleagues and business leaders within the region, and globally. Involvement with multiple business groups requires successful navigation in a highly matrixed structure. Key elements to success are a proven ability to build relationships and influence, to be agile, adaptive and drive to execution.

 

Responsibilities

Key Relationships

Reports to: Corporate Vice President – Human Resources; based outside Boston, MA, USA

Matrix reports to: VP Human Resources for the business group

 

Major Responsibilities:

• Serve as a role model: communicate and represent organizational values and behaviors; actively align with change initiatives; foster a positive work environment that prioritizes integrity, respect and trust; enable talent development; facilitate change; and promote a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

Business Group Support

• Work closely with business leadership and employees by contributing value-added expertise to educate and guide on complex HR issues at a country level and across all business groups, to improve work relationships, build morale, increase productivity and retention.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and input on organizational initiatives, workforce planning, training, succession planning, and communication.

Represent regional countries

• Collaborate with HR and business leaders to ensure seamless Human Resource strategy implementation throughout the Americas region. A key priority will be aligning delivery while acknowledging the groups' differences where appropriate.
• Work across multiple divisional/ functional leadership structures to ensure country and regional HR needs are met and exceeded.

Lead HR initiatives regionally

• Act as an HR subject matter expert to partner with Corporate HR teams to identify continuous improvement opportunities. Collaborate with HR colleagues and business leaders to develop plans and deliver improvements that align with best practices and per local legislation.
• Seek and include country business leader input and HR insight to enable feedback and influence change initiatives at a strategic level.
• Perform other duties as required.

Qualifications

Ideal Experience:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or Organizational Development, or a related degree, along with continuous learning, is required. A master's degree and professional HR certification (e.g., SHRM, HRCI, WorldatWork) are preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of hands-on, progressive work experience as a senior HR partner within a global publicly traded manufacturing company in the Life Sciences/Healthcare/Medical Devices industry is preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years of project management work experience is highly preferred.
• Proven successful work experience as a collaborative HR Business Partner in a global, highly matrixed, and decentralized organization.
• Demonstrated hands-on HR functional knowledge, depth, and work experience implementing and managing employment, acquisition integration, transformation, compensation, training, and development activities and programs at global and regional levels.
• Advanced business acumen with proven ability to quickly learn the business and apply strategic thinking, financial l