Human Resources Business Partner

Molex; Bridgewater Township (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Molex is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support the Optical Solutions Business Unit in Bridgewater, NJ. You will partner with engineering, product management, and marketing leaders to align people strategies with business priorities.

As the primary HR resource for segment leadership, you will help build talent pipelines, develop leaders, and scale for growth, while collaborating with North American HR partners. Travel up to 10% is expected.

Qualifications

• Progressive HR experience supporting business leaders.
• Experience coaching and advising leaders on employee relations and performance management.
• Experience handling employee relations matters and workplace investigations.
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and present HR or workforce data to inform decisions.
• Strong knowledge of New Jersey employment law and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Partner with site and business leadership to translate priorities into people strategies.
• Advise on organizational design, workforce planning, talent development, and retention.
• Coach supervisors on performance, feedback, and development of capabilities.
• Identify organizational and talent opportunities and develop HR solutions.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders and provide candid feedback.

Skills

HR business partner

Coaching leaders

Employee relations

Data analytics

NJ employment law

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Job description

Our Team

You will join the HR team supporting Molex's Optical Solutions Business Unit (OSBU), a fast-growing organization focused on enabling next-generation optical connectivity solutions. This role will partner closely with engineering, product management, and technical marketing leaders primarily based in Bridgewater, NJ while collaborating with HR partners across North America.

As a trusted business partner and the primary HR resource for segment leadership, you will play a key role in building talent pipelines, developing future leaders, and helping the organization scale for continued growth. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment where initiative, curiosity, and innovative ideas are encouraged and valued.

What You Will Do

• Partner closely with site and business leadership to understand business priorities, organizational needs, and talent requirements, translating them into effective people strategies.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational design, workforce planning, talent development, team effectiveness, succession, and retention.
• Coach supervisors and leaders on people leadership, establishing clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations (RREs), providing effective feedback, managing performance, and developing capability within their teams.
• Proactively identify organizational and talent opportunities and develop HR solutions that support continued business growth.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders while demonstrating the courage to provide candid feedback, respectfully challenge thinking, and bring forward alternative perspectives.
• Drive talent management, succession planning, and individual development discussions to strengthen leadership pipelines and critical capabilities.
• Leverage HR data and organizational insights to identify workforce trends, talent risks, and opportunities that inform business decisions.
• Champion Principle Based Management (PBM), partnering with leaders and employees to strengthen its understanding and application throughout the organization.
• Partner with leaders on key HR processes, including compensation and workforce planning, talent reviews, performance management, and employee development.
• Provide guidance on employee relations matters, including investigations, performance concerns, conflict resolution, and other workplace issues, exercising sound independent judgment and discretion.
• Support an effective employee experience, including onboarding, employee questions, and day-to-day HR needs.
• Support consistent application of HR policies and compliance with applicable New Jersey and federal employment requirements.
• Contribute to organizational change, business growth initiatives, and other HR projects based on evolving business needs.
• Collaborate with HR colleagues across locations to share knowledge, best practices, and organizational priorities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Progressive HR experience, including experience as an HR Business Partner, HR Manager, or HR Generalist supporting business leaders.
• Experience coaching and advising leaders on employee relations, performance management, talent development, and organizational matters.
• Experience independently handling employee relations matters and workplace investigations.
• Experience analyzing, interpreting, and presenting HR or workforce data to inform business decisions.
• Strong working knowledge of New Jersey employment law and employee relations best practices.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 10% of the time.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field.
• Experience supporting engineering, R&D, optics, photonics, semiconductor, hardware, manufacturing, or other technical organizations.
• Experience with organizational transformation, change management, mergers and acquisitions, or business integration.
• Advanced skills in data analytics with demonstrated experience connecting HR data and insights to business and talent strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, challenge, and partner effectively with leaders at multiple levels of an organization.
• Experience supporting a technical, engineering, manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex business environment.

For this role, we anticipate paying $140,000 to $180,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.

Our benefits plan includes.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).