Global Director, Business HR

Thornton Tomasetti; California; On-site; USD 172,000 - 344,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical coverage

Tuition reimbursement

High employer retirement contribution

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a strategic Business HR Director to partner with R&D, Product Development, Clinical/Regulatory/Medical Affairs, and Finance. The role sits onsite at Sylmar, CA, not a hybrid, and focuses on attracting, developing, and retaining talent to transform healthcare delivery.

The position requires 8–10 years of client-facing HR experience, strong leadership, and global perspective across multiple locations and cultures. Abbott offers comprehensive health & retirement benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with background in HR/IR, OD/IP, STEM, or business.
• Advanced HR/IP degree or HR certification preferred.
• 8-10 years’ experience in client-facing HR Business Partner roles.
• Experience developing relationships and leading processes with remote business partners and HR colleagues.
• Ability to influence very senior business leaders using business acumen.
• Ability to align leadership around organization direction, design, and governance/decision rights.
• Track record of developing and implementing a talent strategy to achieve differentiated business outcomes.
• Experience deploying priorities across multiple locations (across multiple countries and cultures is highly desirable).
• Matrix management skill, ability to define resource requirements and pull from support functions, and deliver results.
• Ability to conduct business fluently in English.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with business leaders to define and implement programs for high performance and ethics.
• Establishes tone for performance and continuous improvement at the leadership level.
• Coaches senior leaders to engage, develop, and retain talent.
• Supports leaders in deploying performance management and rewards processes.

Skills

Client-facing HR

Remote partnerships

Senior leadership influence

Organization design

Talent strategy

Multi-location deployment

Organizational effectiveness

Matrix management

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced HR degree

HR certification

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.

You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

The Opportunity As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats. We’re looking for a strategic business partner who can drive business success through attracting, managing, developing, and retaining talent who want to transform healthcare delivery. We are hiring for a Business HR Director to support the R&D, Product Development, Clinical/Regulatory/Medical Affairs, and Finance organizations. This position sits onsite at our divisional headquarters in Sylmar, CA, and is not a hybrid role.

Business Partnering

• Collaborates closely with business leaders to define and implement business-specific programs to ensure a culture of high performance and ethics, high engagement and enablement, and overall org effectiveness.
• Establishes, in partnership with senior business leaders, a tone for performance and continuous improvement.
• Coaches senior leaders and their leadership teams to ensure the appropriate level of focus is placed on assessing talent capabilities and taking action to engage, develop, and retain talent.
• Supports senior leaders in effectively deploying performance management and rewards processes/practices to drive required levels of employee accountability for desired performance results and ensure retention of top performers.

Talent Management & Organizational Capability

• Implements Abbott’s and Cardiac Rhythm Management’s talent strategy and processes within the assigned business teams; partners with senior leaders to translate talent strategy into relevant actions.
• Defines an org capability roadmap, aligned with the business strategy and R&D pipeline, to deliver the right capabilities in the right locations with effective governance to identify and mitigate risk.
• Breaks the org capability roadmap into component and achievable parts with relevant metrics and milestones.
• Ensures talent acquisition, talent development, and succession practices are effectively operationalized within the assigned business teams.

HR Service Delivery

• Ensures business priorities are shared with Practice and Service Centers, so that appropriate resource planning and priorities can be aligned.
• Collaborates with HR colleagues regionally and globally to ensure that business decisions and actions are fully executed per the agreed upon plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required with appropriate academic background in HR/IR, OD/IP, STEM, or business.
• Advanced HR/IP degree or HR certification preferred.
• 8-10 years’ experience in client-facing HR Business Partner roles.
• Demonstrated experience developing relationships and leading processes with remote business partners and HR colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage business acumen and interpersonal savvy to influence very senior business leaders.
• Demonstrated capability in aligning leadership around organization direction, design, and governance/decision rights.
• Demonstrated track record of developing and implementing a talent strategy to achieve differentiated business outcomes.
• Experience deploying priorities across multiple locations (across multiple countries and cultures is highly desirable).
• Demonstrated track record of success in developing and driving organizational effectiveness and improvement initiatives (e.g., high performing teams, large scale transformation/change initiatives, etc.).
• Has matrix management skill, ability to define resource requirements and pull from support functions, and deliver the results through collaboration.
• Ability to conduct business (verbally and in written communications) fluently in English.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $172,000.00 – $344,000.00

JOB FAMILY: HR Consultant

DIVISION: CHR Corporate Human Resources

LOCATION: United States > Sylmar : 15900 Valley View Court

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT: Standard

TRAVEL: Yes, 20 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best life by better health.

The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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