Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Who We Are 

Formerra is a preeminent distributor of engineered materials, connecting the world’s leading polymer producers with thousands of OEMs and brand owners across healthcare, consumer, industrial, and mobility markets. Powered by technical and commercial expertise, it brings a distinctive combination of portfolio depth, supply chain strength, industry knowledge, service, leading ecommerce capabilities, and ingenuity. The experienced Formerra team helps customers across multiple industries to design, select, process, and develop products in new and better ways – driving improved performance, productivity, reliability, and sustainability. To learn more, visit www.formerra.com. 

 Formerra leads in the market with the following key capabilities: 

• Problem-solving mindset, based on ingenuity and backed by a skilled and experienced commercial team that brings differentiated insights across markets including healthcare, consumer, industrial and mobility
• Expansive material portfolio, including engineering thermoplastics and traditional polymers across leading material brands 
• Integrated, long-standing relationships with leading, global suppliers 
• Unparalleled and highly specialized technical, processing, and design support 
• Regulatory-compliant material support and expertise 

Position Overview: 

The Senior Human Resources Business Partner develops strong partnerships with Sr. Leaders across regions and facilitates and implements HR strategy, programs and services that will further the business goals of the organization.   

At the same time, s/he will get involved with day to day human resources issues and provide insight, counseling and problem resolution to people leaders and employees. 

Responsibilities: 

• Partner with senior executives to design and implement programming, policies and processes that support the People Strategy. Use data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of tools and programming to understand the landscape for further improvement.  

• Provide expert input across a range of HR issues; Design and deliver high impact solutions that meet the needs of the business.  

• Co-lead annual talent review process, including talent assessment, succession planning, development planning. Proactive follow-up on action items/follow-up. 

• Drive consistency of approach across the enterprise in managing and developing talent to support current and future organizational needs.  

• Create templates and lead the integration of leaders/associates post acquisition. Assist in due diligence as required. 

• Drive change by challenging leaders to consider alternative solutions to influence a high- performance culture. Partner with managers to effectively address performance gaps. 

• Partners with payroll; HRIS; Compensation & Benefits functions as needed to provide solutions for clients. 

• Partner on annual performance mgmt., bonus & merit processes. Partner to ensure goals are set as appropriate each year. 

• Work with managers to effectively diagnose organizational issues thru data and partners to solve them. (Evaluates issues, patterns, and trends to provide proactive insights for HR solutions i.e. training to address certain needs.) 

• Coach and build the capability of senior managers to anticipate and pre-empt organizational issues. 

• Provide counsel to management on resource and headcount planning.  

• Drive change by challenging leaders to consider alternative solutions to influence a high- performance culture. Partner with managers to effectively address performance gaps and mitigate risk. 

• Advise managers on organizational policy matters, such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment, and recommend needed changes. 

• Continuously drive improvements in tools and policies through external market trends, insight and internal best practice.  

• Understand and anticipate the need for change, diagnose the underlying issues and build the case for change with stakeholders. Build frameworks to plan and manage the continuous process of change including dependencies, risk, potential scenarios ad options to mitigate.  

• Ensure global HR operations are adequately serviced, that HR programming has global reach where applicable and leads regional implementation of policies, practices & programs. 

• Be an ambassador for the function and represent the HR internally and externally (as appropriate). 

Job Qualifications & Requirements: 

• 15+ years of progressive Human Resources experience, preferably in professional services, supporting an entrepreneurial, diverse, fast-paced organization  

• Proven expertise in developing strategic partnerships with sr. management and influencing key business decisions, preferably in a fast-paced organizational environment 

• Intellectual acumen, sound judgment, professional and personal integrity, initiative and flexibility, combined with solid analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Assertive, high energy, independent, results-oriented demeanor and a strong drive to succeed  

• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills 

• Excellent consensus building/influence skills 

• Demonstrated ability to set the tone and maintain HR standards in a consistent way with ability to adapt to the evolving organizational needs 

• Qualified candidates will possess a bachelor’s degree in HR, Business or related course of study. MBA or Master’s in Human Resources preferred. 

• The ideal candidate will have a passion for enhancing people processes and live in the data to explain the “what”, “why”, and “what now”. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to interface with management and peers, specific strength in influencing decision makers and managing expectations 

• Agile with the ability to respond to rapidly changing business models, with proven track record in change management. 

• The ability to understand business goals and recommend new approaches, policies and procedures to effect continual improvements in business objectives, productivity and development of HR within the company 

• A true hands-on approach as well as the ability to successfully monitor the “pulse” of the employees to ensure a high level of employee engagement 

• Strong project management skills; ability to lead projects at a network level to influence and obtain buy-in, and then drive execution and achievement of the right results 

• The ability to be comfortable with high volume workload and not be afraid to “roll up your sleeves” 

• Help drive the People functional excellence through automating processes, designing policies and delivering system solutions that enable the team to be more efficient 

• Own and drive analysis of data to identify relationships, trends, and potential business impact; interpret data and communicate findings to the People team. 

• Implement and maintain process improvements that will enhance the employee experience with people services 

Disclaimers:

• Legal authorization to work in the specified country is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
• It is the policy of Formerra that all employees are employed at the will of Formerra for an indefinite period and are subject to termination at any time, for any reason, with or without cause or notice. At the same time, employees may terminate their employment at any time and for any reason.
• Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or contract.
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