Human Resources Business Partner

ipgjobs; Marlborough (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IPG Photonics is seeking an HR Business Partner to partner with senior leaders, align human capital strategies with business goals, and drive transformation across a global, high-tech organization. You will influence executive decisions, coach leaders, and ensure workforce agility to support IPG’s growth.

This strategic role emphasizes data-driven impact and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate will bring extensive HR leadership experience in global engineering environments, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, organizational development, or related field.
• Master's degree or MBA strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to align human capital strategies with business objectives.
• Lead enterprise-wide change initiatives and coach leaders on team effectiveness and communication.
• Drive workforce planning, capability building, and leadership alignment.
• Collaborate on organizational design to support speed to innovation and cross-functional collaboration.
• Provide strategic HR counsel to executives and influence organizational decisions.
• Collaborate across regions to ensure consistent HR strategy implementation and leverage global centers of excellence.
• Apply analytics to inform strategy, measure impact, and continuously improve outcomes.
• Support performance management, engagement, and a high-performing culture of innovation.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive partnership

Change management

Data-driven decision making

Global perspective

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Master's degree or MBA strongly preferred

Tools

HRIS

MS Office 365

Job description

At IPG Photonics, we believe that a culture of engagement, collaboration and agility fuels innovation and drives sustainable growth for both our people and our business. We are seeking an HR Business Partner who is passionate about partnering with senior leaders to align human capital strategies with business objectives. In this strategic role, you will help lead transformational change, foster innovation, and enhance workforce agility and excellence, directly supporting IPG’s growth agenda focused on diversification into high-growth sectors, global expansion, and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience supporting global high-tech and engineering organizations, particularly within fast-paced, agile environments. Success in this role requires strong business acumen, a strategic mindset, and the ability to drive alignment between people initiatives and business priorities. Exceptional change leadership, global collaboration and the ability to influence senior stakeholders are essential – alongside a commitment to reinforcing IPG’s high-performance innovation led culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Talent Alignment:Partner with business leaders to align talent strategies with IPG’s strategy, and business goals focusing on future-ready capabilities and organizational agility. Contributes to the strategic planning process discussions and workforce planning.
• Change Leadership:Lead, facilitate and support enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, serving as a trusted advisor to executives and managers to ensure smooth transitions and sustained change and culture shifts. Coaches leaders on team effectiveness, communication, and talent development.
• Workforce Planning & Capability Building:Analyzes talent needs, design and implement workforce strategies that build critical skills, hires the right talent, develops leadership strength and capacity to support IPG’s growth strategy and support a more digitally enabled organization.
• Organizational Design & Effectiveness:Collaborate with leaders to evolve structures, roles, and workflows that enhance cross-functional collaboration and speed to innovation and business responsiveness and effectiveness.
• Executive Influence:Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with senior leaders, providing strategic HR counsel and influencing decisions that shape organizational direction and performance.
• Global HR Integration:Partners across regions and cultures to ensure consistent, effective implementation of HR strategies, leveraging global Centers of Excellence.
• Data-Driven Decision Making:Apply analytics and business metrics to inform strategy, measure impact, and continuously improve talent and organizational outcomes.
• Performance, Culture & Engagement:Supports goal setting, performance management, and feedback mechanisms. Champion a high performing engaged culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning--- reinforcing IPG’s values and enabling long term growth. Guides conflict resolution and champion fairness for employees and coaches managers on employee development, engagement and behavior issues.
• Supports HR Evolution:Champion best practices, process efficiency and continuous improvement across HR practices, using data-driven insights to optimize workflows and enhance service delivery to customers. Partners across regions and cultures to ensure consistent, effective implementation of HR strategies, leveraging global centers of excellence.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field required;Master's degree or MBAstrongly preferred.

HR Leadership Experience

8–12 years of progressive HR experience, with at least5-7 years in a strategic HR Business Partner rolewithin a global, matrixed organization—preferably in high-tech, engineering, or advanced manufacturing sectors.

Change & Transformation

Proven success inleading enterprise-wide change managementinitiatives, including organizational design, cultural transformation, performance enablement, and leadership alignment.

Business Acumen

Strongunderstanding of business strategy, market dynamics, and competitive landscapes with the ability to anticipate and translate complex business needs into impactful people strategies.

Global Perspective

Experience working acrossinternational teams, with a deep appreciation for cultural diversity, international labor practices, and regional compliance requirements.

Executive Partnership

Exceptionalrelationship building, communication and coaching skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence and advise executive stakeholders.

Analytic & Strategic Thinking

Skilled in navigatingambiguity and complexity, with proactive, solution-oriented mindset. Able to assess complex situations, identify root causes, and develop effective frameworks and solutions. A proactive, solution-oriented mindset adept at operating in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Digital Fluency

Proficient leveraging HRIS platforms, MS Office 365 and other digital tools. Comfortable using data and analytics to inform decisions, measure impact, and drive continuous improvement.

Complex Problem Solving

Strategic thinker with a proven ability to analyze complex challenges, identify root causes, and design effective solutions, processes, and frameworks that drive meaningful outcomes. problem solver that can analyze complex situations, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions, processes, and frameworks.