Director People Partner

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The Senior Director, People Partner EMEA will be a strategic partner across EMEA that owns and delivers the associate experience across the region – shaping and delivering strategies for engagement, culture, talent, employee relations and employer brand. The role leads a large HR team across the region to anticipate and mitigate people risk, ensure compliant governance, and influence leaders to deliver an inclusive and positive associate culture while enabling people leaders to lead with confidence and clarity.

The Senior Director, People Partner EMEA works closely with HRBPs, COEs, and HR Shared Services to deliver scalable, compliant execution while maintaining ownership of the people agenda. They model modern HR ways of working, using self-service and case management tools as the primary entry point for HR support.

This position reports to the Vice President, People Partner Global and is part of the People Partner Organization. The role is an onsite role to be based in Amersham (UK).

• Operating in a matrix, global organisation, you will lead and develop a high-performing HR team across EMEA, building HR organisational capability and driving HR Evolution through the sustainable adoption of new ways of working.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to business and functional leadership, with a large presence in EMEA, on people strategy, workforce planning, organizational health, and workforce risk ensuring consistent delivery of people priorities, change initiatives, and business outcomes across the region.
• Enable People Leaders through coaching and guidance on complex people topics (e.g., organizational change, policy interpretation, leader effectiveness), leveraging the support from People Partners, HR Business Partners and HR Generalists as necessary.
• Partner with HRBPs and COEs (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Total Rewards) to influence, shape and translate global workforce/talent strategies into effective programs that improve attraction and retention across EMEA
• Partner with the LER COE and leaders to assess ER/LR risk, govern escalations, and strengthen preventative practices.
• Activate global and COE programs across EMEA, leading or sponsoring key change initiatives and enabling cross-business collaboration.
• Strengthen the regional people partner governance and performance culture by increasing the use of AI, transparent metrics, bowler reviews and project-based execution and leading with DBS while building team’s capability, helping them develop and grow while improving associate experience and business impact

• Undergraduate degree
• Long standing experience of progressive leadership roles in HR
• Track record in coaching and influencing People Leaders and leading HR projects/change with moderate-to-high complexity and delivering measurable improvements to the associate experience.
• Continuous improvement and process oriented – has familiarity with lean principles, problem solving and how to apply them to Human Resources in a measurable and sustainable way
• Leveraging digital, analytics, or AI enabled tools to enhance HR decision making and execution.

Travel

• Ability to travel – 40 % travel, overnight, within EMEA

Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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