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Sr. Director, HR – Lead. Influence. Make an Impact.


Job Location:

Waltham, MA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 192700 - 256900
Posted: 20 September 2026 (5 days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

The Senior Director Human Resources Finance & Corporate Strategy serves as a strategic HR Business Partner to senior leaders translating business priorities into talent organizational and workforce strategies that enable performance and long-term growth.

This leader provides strategic HR leadership across talent and succession organizational effectiveness workforce planning leadership development culture and transformation. Success requires strong business and financial acumen sound organizational judgment and the ability to influence and execute in a complex global matrixed environment.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic HR Business Partnership
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Finance and Corporate Strategy leaders translating business priorities into actionable people and organizational strategies.
  • Anticipate talent capability and organizational risks and use data and business insights to shape decisions.
  • Strengthen organizational effectiveness accountability and execution while balancing functional and enterprise priorities.
Talent Leadership & Succession
  • Lead talent and succession planning building strong pipelines and readiness for critical roles.
  • Coach leaders on talent performance leadership effectiveness and team development.
  • Identify capability and retention risks and create development and mobility opportunities that strengthen the enterprise talent pipeline.
Organizational Effectiveness & Design
  • Advise leaders on organizational structure roles governance decision rights and ways of working to improve effectiveness and productivity.
  • Diagnose organizational challenges and develop solutions across structure talent leadership and process.
  • Lead organizational changes that address current performance needs while building future capability.
Transformation & Workforce Strategy
  • Lead the people and organizational aspects of transformation restructuring operating model changes and other workforce initiatives.
  • Develop workforce strategies that balance capability capacity cost location and future business requirements.
  • Partner with leaders to translate AI automation and digital transformation into workforce skill and organizational implications.
Culture Engagement & Leadership Effectiveness
  • Build an inclusive high-performance culture aligned with Thermo Fisher Scientific values and business priorities.
  • Use employee and organizational insights to strengthen engagement collaboration accountability and leadership effectiveness.
  • Coach leaders to address cultural and organizational barriers and improve team performance.
HR Leadership & OneTeam Partnership
  • Partner across HR Business Partners Centers of Excellence Regional HR and HR Operations to deliver integrated solutions.
  • Connect functional priorities with enterprise HR strategies and ensure effective execution of core talent and HR processes.
  • Use business and HR data to prioritize actions measure impact and contribute to broader HR initiatives.
Critical Capabilities
Business & Financial Acumen
  • Strong understanding of business and financial drivers with the ability to connect strategy to workforce talent and organizational implications.
  • Strong analytical and data fluency with credibility partnering with senior Finance and Corporate Strategy leaders.
Strategic Influence
  • Builds trusted senior-level relationships while providing independent judgment and constructive challenge.
  • Simplifies complexity influences across organizational boundaries and translates business needs into practical solutions.
Organizational Effectiveness
  • Strong organizational design workforce planning and change leadership capabilities.
  • Diagnoses complex organizational issues and implements practical solutions in global matrixed environments.
Talent & Leadership Development
  • Strong talent assessment succession planning and senior leader coaching capabilities.
  • Builds leadership readiness addresses capability gaps and promotes talent development and mobility across the enterprise.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelors Degree plus 10 years progressive HR leadership in a global complex organization

  • Direct experience partnering with revenue-driving leaders with demonstrated success implementing transformative initiatives that drive business results

  • Strong analytical and financial acumen and comfort discussing margin productivity and capital allocation

  • Executive presence and composure under pressure

  • Structured thinker who synthesizes complexity into clear actionable paths

  • Ability to challenge respectfully while maintaining trust

  • Resilience in fast-paced high-expectation environments

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support colleagues professionally and personally including competitive compensation incentive opportunities health and wellbeing benefits retirement and savings programs paid time off and career development opportunities.

Join us and help shape the talent leaders and organization that will drive whats next.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $192700.00$256900.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company team and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on which includes:

  • A choice of national medical and dental plans and a national vision plan including health incentive programs

  • Employee assistance and family support programs including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

  • At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) 10 paid holidays annually paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave) accident and life insurance and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

  • Retirement and savings programs such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

  • Employees Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

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