Director HR Business Partner, North America (remote)

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Director HR Business Partner in North America for their Insulation & Components business. The role is accountable for delivering the strategic and operational HR roadmap, collaborating closely with factory HR Business Partners to develop talent outcomes and support business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Setting and implementing the HR roadmap for the product line in alignment with the global business unit and the North America HUB people strategy covering culture, competence, and organization
• Close partnership with the Factory HR Business Partners to align and oversee talent management, succession planning, and workforce development to meet organizational goals
• Ensuring people and organizational capabilities required in the mid-long term are understood and actioned and that the positions in the short term are adequately staffed to meet or exceed the annual business targets
• Build performance culture, KPIs, and targets to enhance business performance
• Further build on the product line operating model and optimize organization structures and principles in line with required standards across the BU and HUB
• Support in identifying development activities to build and improve competence in collaboration with the talent and learning team and to ensure a healthy and sustainable talent structure in the organization, including recruitment, identification and succession planning on business-critical roles, diversity and inclusion
• Utilize HR Analytics data to understand key organizational dynamics and to foster data-driven decision-making and action planning
• Implementing and ensuring compliance with global and local standards, rules, tools, policies and processes related to the HR execution and share functional best practices and lessons learned across the Product Line
• Manage/coordinate cross-product line HR projects/initiatives as needed
• Establish network with the HR community to perform best practice sharing and benchmarking
• Implement necessary measures and actions to facilitate change
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity
• Up to 50% travel required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in human resources management, labor law, organizational behavior or business-related field
• Minimum 10 years of Human Resource Business Partner experience, including experience in manufacturing environment and in leadership positions
• Experience in a fast-paced, global, multinational matrix environment
• Strong track record in organizational and talent development as well as capability building
• Result oriented and strategic mindset Initiative paired with strong communication (verbal/written) and influencing skills
• Ability to partner with senior managers
• Flexibility and strong team working / collaborating
• Strong analytical skills, data driven decision making
• Translates strategies to actionable plans, aligns HR objectives to business needs, follows through to ensure completion
• Masters' degree an added advantage
• Experience in Industrial relations / labor relations is a plus