Job Description Summary

The Director, Human Resources provides strategic HR Business Partner leadership and support primarily to our US Commercial organization and Global Customer Service and leads a small team of HRBPs. As part of the MMS HR team, we orchestrate the integrated delivery of HR support through the COEs, Associate Service Centers, and corporate HR functions, while ensuring alignment with business needs and strategic objectives.

This role will influence across the organization and drive strategic thinking across clients and initiatives from concept to planning to execution. The successful candidate will be self-driven, highly engaged in the business, and a trusted coach and advisor who believes that delivery excellence is essential and seeks to elevate the performance of those they collaborate with across the enterprise. This role reports into the VP of HR for MMS with dotted line accountability to their client leaders.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.

The Director, Human Resources provides strategic HR Business Partner leadership and support primarily to our US Commercial organization and Global Customer Service and leads a small team of HRBPs.  As part of the MMS HR team, we orchestrate the integrated delivery of HR support through the COEs, Associate Service Centers, and corporate HR functions, while ensuring alignment with business needs and strategic objectives. 

This role will influence across the organization and drive strategic thinking across clients and initiatives from concept to planning to execution. The successful candidate will be self-driven, highly engaged in the business, and a trusted coach and advisor who believes that delivery excellence is essential and seeks to elevate the performance of those they collaborate with across the enterprise. This role reports into the VP of HR for MMS with dotted line accountability to their client leaders.

Responsibilities:

Organizational Effectiveness & Development

• Aligned with business objectives across multiple business lines and functions, provides strategic HR leadership to leaders and teams to identify and resolve talent gaps impacting business outcomes and addressing through systemic counter measures. Will coach and mentor within HR team and lead MMS-wide programs and initiatives.
• Lead and support client groups through organizational capability and capacity analysis, strategic workforce planning, organization design, associate engagement, and organizational change initiatives to deliver talent needed to drive business outcomes. Monitor platform team cross functional engagement, collaboration and proactively engage in driving improvements in people, process, and operating models where appropriate.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and consultant to client leaders as they deliver their business and functional plans while aiding in their own leadership development journey and career planning.
• Demonstrate thought leadership in change and transformation excellence that drive continuous improvement into the business.  Incorporate change methodology that includes:  a business case for change, identification of primary stake holders, process mapping, communications planning, action/transition planning, visioning sessions, conflict resolution, team building, and after-action review assessments.
• Develop & conduct team development/team building strategies both proactively and when necessary to improve team performance.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of the business including external talent trends, culture, reward systems, and organization models. Participate in Annual Strategic Planning process emphasizing talent assessments, needs, and solutions over the planning period.
• Engage in complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the team and interpersonal dynamics. Has the ability to model and manipulate data to build an understanding and then communicate findings to leadership team in a coherent manner.

Talent Management & Acquisition

• Serve as a key leader for implementation of transformation change efforts while partnering with executive leaders and may lead/coach other HR colleagues on any organizational development and design efforts. This end-to-end work may be focused on M&A and integrations, internal restructuring, or other organizational assessment and change needs aligned with business growth strategies.
• Identify opportunities and guide leaders to fill capability gaps through talent acquisition and development aligned with business strategies. Monitor and track success and delivery.
• Consult as a talent advisor, facilitator, and champion to ensure strong succession pipelines for critical roles.
• Partner with Talent Management and Talent Acquisition teams to align top talent to the highest priorities while ensuring inclusion and diversity outcomes. Participate in annual processes and special projects as needed to serve the needs of our business.
• Participate on the interview team for senior level and critical roles, and counsel hiring leaders/teams in selection process.
• Leverage and lead teams through goal setting, alignment and performance management cycles driving high performance team culture and outcomes within the business.
• Consult with clients to understand training and development needs across their functional groups, to identify trends, patterns, etc., and works with the TM COE to present recommendations as part of organizational training needs assessment.

Total Rewards

• Provide consultative guidance for compensation, rewards and facilitate appropriate compensation reviews during annual processes, job offers, retention measures as well as ad hoc evaluation needs based on client group / BU strategies.
• Facilitate annual compensation programs within client groups driving to expected outcomes and timely deliveries.
• Create culture of recognition centered around BD’s values and mindsets.

Associate Engagement & Relations

• Provide strategic HR advisory support for complex HR issues and activities
• Identify trends and root causes as opportunities to improve organizational/team and associate engagement.
• Actively use data and metrics to drive client engagement and drive accountability for outcomes both with client and the HR organization.
• Monitor and address retention proactively and work closely with AccessHR (employee relations COE) to understand leading and lagging indicators for observed trends.
• Develop/define associate separation strategy & manage severance for group separations in partnership with AccessHR, ASC, Legal, etc.

HR Function Effectiveness

• Serve as the face of HR to client groups and lives ‘one HR’ model.
• Partner with the ASC, AccessHR, CoEs and consistently meet with both groups to understand trends, discuss escalated items, improve outcomes, and deliver updated processes and changes, etc.
• Drive continuous improvement within team and function. Focus on development, growth, engagement and inclusion of direct report and HR team in partnership with VP.

Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree in Business Administration, HR Management or related field required.
• Advanced degree (MBA/ Masters in HR or equivalent) is preferred.
• Professional of Human Resources (PHR/SPHR) Certification desired.
• Minimum of 10 years progressive professional experience as HRBP with experience that requires change management, strategic business partnering, organizational effectiveness/development, employment law, and prior people leadership experience.
• Ideally experienced in supporting commercial, field based teams.
• Experience working in mid/large complex, global environments and matrixed organization is preferred.
• San Diego based role, in office 4-days a week.
• Relocation benefits are not expected with this position.
• Travel required up to 20%.

Why Join Us?

A career at BD means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work. It’s also a place where we help each other be great, we do what’s right, we hold each other accountable and learn and improve every day. You will work alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time.

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.

Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.

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Primary Work Location

USA CA - San Diego Bldg A&B

Additional Locations

Work Shift

At BD, we are strongly committed to investing in our associates—their well-being and development, and in providing rewards and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture. We demonstrate this commitment by offering a valuable, competitive package of compensation and benefits programs which you can learn more about on our Careers Site under Our Commitment to You.

Salary or hourly rate ranges have been implemented to reward associates fairly and competitively, as well as to support recognition of associates’ progress, ranging from entry level to experts in their field, and talent mobility. There are many factors, such as location, that contribute to the range displayed. The salary or hourly rate offered to a successful candidate is based on experience, education, skills, and any step rate pay system of the actual work location, as applicable to the role or position. Salary or hourly pay ranges may vary for Field-based and Remote roles.

Salary Range Information

$162,500.00 - $292,400.00 USD Annual