Human Resources Project Manager Jobs in Portland, OR

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

This position is part of our Material and Structural Analysis Division (MSD). MSD supplies innovative solutions for microscopy and microanalysis. Using scanning and transmission electron microscopes and DualBeam™ FIB-SEMs, combined with sophisticated software suites, our customers can combine high-resolution imaging with physical, elemental, chemical, and electrical analysis to go from questions to usable data. Our solutions enable customers to push the boundaries of productivity and innovation. Materials and Structural Analysis impacts everyday life -- medicines and vaccines, transportation, clean energy, devices, food, bridges, technology, and more.

Position Specific Information:

The HR Manager, US Commercial, is responsible for providing HR business partnership and support to field based Sales and Services Commercial teams in the US. This role will work in close collaboration with the broader commercial HR team to support and execute on HR priorities for the function, enable capability development and to support employee engagement. HR Manager will also lead and / or support key functional or Division wide projects and ad-hoc requests. This position reports into Director HR, Corporate.  Sr HR Director, Global Commercial and Strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides HR solutions support, process knowledge advice, and consultation to assigned client group.
• Mentor managers on issues including application of HR policies and processes, restructuring, and complex employee issues in order to strengthen overall organizational capability. May coach employees on people management, career development, personal leadership, and 360 assessments.
• Partner with management and broader HR team to understand business goals and people implications.
• Plan and operate independently when making decisions for client groups, use Sr HR Director and HR team as sounding board and partner for complex issues and approvals when required.
• Participate in the broader Division HR team to drive HR solutions such as process improvement as well as lead or be part of other broad scale HR projects and initiatives.
• Conduct Employee/Labor Relations investigations in partnership with ER and provide recommendation for resolution where appropriate.
• Drive manager and employee Self-Service adoption on HR processes and highly repeatable functional tasks.
• Collaborate with COE Experts to complete and implement large scale HR initiatives (i.e. roll out annual programs, new programs/policies, etc.)
• Drive recruitment efforts within established division guidelines. Partner with managers in establishing hiring and compensation strategies.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business administrations or a related field required. Master’s degree would be an advantage

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of HR work experience or equivalent work experience required

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Comfortable working with ambiguity
• Ability to collaborate and leverage network
• Looks at problems with a long term strategic view, but is able to translate that into short- and long-term goals.
• High degree of autonomy and decision-making skills.
• Must possess the presentation skills and integrity to project a professional image, both internally and externally.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with all levels of the organization including employee relations, mentorship, and communications
• Demonstrates personal awareness and desire for continual learning, personal development, as well as being structured, resolved, and with a positive ‘can-do’ demeanor
• Honors commitments at all times by exhibiting candor and courage, not being afraid to establish visible presence and point of view, engaging in constructive dialogue, and holding others accountable
• Validated project and time management skills with ability to thrive in a fast-paced matrix environment and balance multiple tasks simultaneously