Director, Talent Management - Clinical Research Group - Join a $40B Leader!

Job Description

About Thermo Fisher Scientific:

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, or increasing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit ;br>
How will you make an impact?
As Director, Talent Management, you play a key role in ensuring the business has the talent strategies and pipeline needed to support our strategic growth objectives. You will collaborate with the Group Talent Leader and Business and Human Resources Leaders to craft, scope, plan and deliver an integrated talent strategy that supports the business strategy for a defined client group. You will help ensure we attract, develop, and retain outstanding talent in alignment with our core Talent processes and programs.

What will you do?
Working across the colleague lifecycle, your primary accountability will be to embed a talent mentality and accountability for an outstanding talent strategy at all levels of your client group.
Your responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Work with the Talent Platform, HR, and Business Leaders to build/reinforce a culture of career growth and talent mobility across the company.
Drive all activities associated with core corporate talent processes and establish an ongoing cadence of talent reviews.
Connect talent systems, processes, and talent insights in a meaningful way to advise business decisions.
Partner closely with Talent Development to deploy centrally developed solutions and develop group/division specific talent initiatives as needed for critical roles and critical talent pools.
Working across the Thermo Fisher Talent Platform, identify transferrable skills across the enterprise to support targeted movement and development of talent.
Support and promote all Global Early Talent programs including internship and undergraduate/graduate leadership programs to build a deep and diverse pipeline of future leaders within the Group and across Thermo Fisher.
Embed the Thermo Fisher 4i Values & Leadership Competencies into all of our talent processes and development.
Provide thoughtful consultation to the Group and Divisional HRBPs on specialist TM topics (e.g. workforce planning, organization design, succession planning, org development)
Apply tools created in the Talent Platform to build and actively assess workforce plans in partnership with the HRVPs to systematically and proactively avoid talent surpluses or shortages given the organization's short and long-term objectives.
Partner closely with Talent Acquisition to stay ahead of key open requisitions, prioritize critical roles to be filled, and be a motivator for actively moving high potential internal talent into open roles.
Partner with the Talent Platform to ensure managers at all levels excel at identifying, selecting, onboarding, and assimilating exceptional new talent into the organization to reduce attrition and enhance productivity.
Develop strategies to retain and empower talent, including thought partnership and planning on yearly involvement surveys and engagement-related initiatives.

How will you get here?

The ideal candidate for this role believes in the power of simple, practical talent solutions that can be implemented through others in a scalable way. Collaborating with others around a shared talent agenda comes naturally to you. You will be highly effective at striking a balance between company processes and programs and the unique needs of the business while prioritizing the highest impact talent solutions.

Education
Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field (a higher degree is highly regarded).

Experience
10 years' experience in human resources and/or talent management within a large global organization
Demonstrated ability to develop, communicate and implement talent strategies linked to business strategy and based in talent analytics
Prior experience leading projects and programs within a matrix organizational environment
Excellent leadership and relationship management skills with demonstrable track record to influence at multiple organizational levels and lead executive level discussions
Prior experience as an HRBP and/or developing and delivering leadership development initiatives would be highly regarded

Skills and Behaviors
Validated business and strategic acuity to make connections between business needs and talent action
Outstanding communication and presentation skills with a confirmed ability to influence and achieve effective solutions
Pragmatic, structured approach to moving ideas into concrete solutions.
Resilience and tenacity in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment
Self-motivated and ability to work autonomously with limited direction.
Detailed-oriented and highly organized and
Solid knowledge of Workday and sophisticated Microsoft Office skills

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!