Senior HR Business Partner

IDEXX; Westbrook (ME); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision Day-One

5% matching 401k

Generous PTO

Job summary

IDEXX is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to advise senior leaders and translate business strategy into HR initiatives. The role focuses on talent, organizational design, and culture to support a fast-moving, technical workforce and IDEXX’s priorities.

You will act as a strategic thought partner on workforce planning, design, and succession, while enabling leadership transitions and executive coaching to strengthen leadership effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior HR business partnering.
• Experience leading organizational design and operating model discussions.
• Ability to apply data and insight to diagnose organizational challenges, with financial and operational literacy.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and framing pragmatic recommendations.
• Skill aligning cross-functional partners to deliver scalable talent solutions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience operating in fast-paced, evolving, or newly structured organizations.
• Experience supporting executive leaders in scaling or transformation environments.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or HR certification preferred.
• Regular on-site presence required at IDEXX Headquarters in Westbrook, Maine.

Responsibilities

• Advise senior leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, compensation, and talent strategies.
• Enable leadership transitions by establishing strong operating rhythms and positioning leaders for early success.
• Provide executive coaching that strengthens leadership effectiveness and decision-making.
• Broker high-performing collaboration across senior teams and activate targeted development plans.
• Use people analytics to diagnose organizational challenges and inform priorities.
• Lead organizational design initiatives aligned to evolving business strategies.
• Partner with HR COEs to deliver integrated, business-aligned solutions that scale.
• Drive core talent processes including succession planning, performance cycles, and leadership reviews.
• Partner with leaders to embed a culture of accountability, inclusion, innovation, and operational excellence.

Skills

HR strategy

Leadership coaching

Data-driven HR

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Adaptability

Executive partnering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree or HR certification

Job description

As the Senior HR Business Partner, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within a high-impact, innovation-driven technology portfolio, translating business strategy into HR strategy. In this role, you will drive talent, organizational design, and culture initiatives that enable a fast-moving, highly technical workforce to deliver on IDEXX's innovation and security priorities.

You will play a key role in ensuring that senior leaders across this portfolio have a strategic HR partner who can accelerate their integration, strengthen their leadership pipelines, and shape a culture built for performance and growth.

Why This Role Matters

Fast-moving, technical organizations don't scale on strategy alone — they scale on leadership capability, alignment, and culture. This role exists so that senior leaders have a strategic HR partner who can translate business priorities into organizational outcomes, build leadership bench strength, and keep culture and performance moving together as the business evolves.

In This Role

• You will serve as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, compensation, and talent strategies.
• You will enable leadership transitions by establishing strong operating rhythms, clarifying expectations, and positioning leaders for early success.
• You will provide executive coaching that strengthens leadership effectiveness and decision-making, including candid feedback and constructive challenge.
• You will broker high-performing collaboration across senior teams, assessing bench strength and activating targeted development plans.
• You will use people analytics and business data to diagnose organizational challenges and inform priorities.
• You will lead organizational design initiatives aligned to evolving business strategies.
• You will partner closely with cross-functional HR COEs (Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Total Rewards, Analytics) to deliver integrated, business-aligned solutions that scale.
• You will drive core talent processes including succession planning, performance cycles, and leadership reviews.
• You will partner with leaders to embed a culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, innovation, and operational excellence.

What You Need To Succeed

• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior-level HR business partnering
• Proven success partnering with senior leaders to strengthen effectiveness and business outcomes, including comfort providing candid feedback
• Experience leading organizational design and operating model discussions, with a strong understanding of leadership capability planning and succession depth
• Ability to apply data and insight to diagnose organizational challenges, with strong financial and operational literacy
• Comfort working with ambiguity and framing pragmatic recommendations
• Skill aligning cross-functional partners to deliver scalable talent solutions
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex people topics into clear, compelling narratives
• Experience operating in fast-paced, evolving, or newly structured organizations, with a proven ability to lead through ambiguity while maintaining alignment and momentum
• Experience supporting executive leaders in scaling or transformation environments
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or HR certification preferred
• Regular, on-site presence required at IDEXX Headquarters in Westbrook, Maine

What You Can Expect From Us

• Salary targeting $150,000 - $170,000 USD annually, with some flexibility depending on years and depth of experience.
• Opportunity for annual cash bonus and performance-based annual merit increase
• Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
• 5% matching 401k
• Generous PTO benefits
• Additional benefits include, but are not limited to, financial support, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, and much more!

Why IDEXX

We’re proud of the work we do because it matters. Every role at IDEXX contributes to improving the health and wellbeing of pets, people, and livestock. With over 10,000 employees worldwide and customers in more than 175 countries, we are a growing organization driven by innovation and a passion for excellence.

We offer competitive compensation, strong benefits, and the opportunity to be part of a high-growth company leading the industry with innovative products and services.

Let’s pursue what matters—together.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.