Director, Americas Commercial HR Business Partner

The HR Director, in partnership with the VP, Americas Commercial and Americas commercial  organization, is primarily responsible for working with the organization to identify, develop, and deploy talent strategies to drive divisional, team, and functional strategies for growth. Talent is the biggest priority for this role, as the successful Director, HRBP helps business leaders leverage talent for growth, increasing innovation, and overall organizational and team effectiveness and productivity.

The successful Director, HRBP can envision the talent enablers of high performance and anticipate the gaps in skills and capabilities before the business and create the plan to close these gaps.  This role is highly collaborative across the assigned business area and the HR function proactively bringing the right resources to the table to deliver outcomes that will drive strategic and financial outcomes.  

Reporting to a VP of Human Resources, the successful individual must be able to communicate at the executive level, collaborate across boundaries and geographies and work with colleagues across the business and the broad HR team. This role will regularly need to align and collaborate with global organizations, the regional HR teams and other internal HR Centers of Expertise including talent acquisition, talent management and Total Rewards. The Director, HRBP is a trusted advisor for the leadership team and core member of the leadership team.

• Deeply understands current and future talent within assigned business area or function. Spends time with top talent and ensures top players are deployed and low performers are addressed.
• Proactively consults with executive and senior leaders in areas of organization design and succession/development to advance future capabilities and growth and development of leaders and key talent.
• Regularly develops, monitors and updates workforce plan in partnership with assigned business leaders, talent management and talent acquisition ensure robust talent pipelines of both internal and external candidates.
• Collaborates with HR domains outside of HRBP to effectively deliver solutions for assigned areas.
• Facilitates organization and leadership development efforts, working with leaders and talent management to identify and act on gaps in capability or team effectiveness.
• Anticipates changing market trends and leverages best practice and broader HRBP team or COEs insights and experience to influence the HR agenda.
• May lead or support the implementation of business specific projects and initiatives to deliver on specific business requirements and outcomes
• Viewed as a business partner, change agent, and member of the line leadership staff
• Provides counsel and coaching to leadership and manages overall business relationship on behalf of HR

• Undergraduate degree and 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience working with Commercial organizations and an understanding of sales incentive compensation
• Proven ability to proactively translate changing business objectives to effective HR strategies; specific experience needed in Organization Design, Talent Management, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Change Management
• Strong client relationship management skills and proven experience in developing consultative relationships with executive leaders. Ability to influence at all levels.

Key Competencies and Experience:

• Uses business acumen and data to make business cases and decisions.
• Challenges status quo and driver of change.
• Enterprise thinker, looks around corners, anticipates impact of decisions
• Proven ability to monitor and respond to HR and financial metrics. Able to utilize HR metrics and analytics to partner with business leaders
• Proven ability to drive broad complex projects to successful completion
• Ability to communicate globally at all levels of the organization
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving approaches

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.