The Cooper Companies

As Senior HRBP, Life Sciences - Americas, you will work directly with leaders, managers and employees in a number of our business units spread across the North America Region in support of the Director, HRBP – Life Sciences. You will take ownership for your own business areas and have responsibility to managing all aspects of HR for your defined group. This role will act as a trusted advisor to the agreed business units providing advice, guidance and positive challenge to create the right culture for CooperSurgical’s continued growth.

About CooperSurgical

CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women's healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. CooperSurgical is at the forefront of delivering innovative assisted reproductive technology and genomic solutions that enhance the work of ART professionals to the benefit of families. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to women's healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options.

CooperSurgical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO). CooperSurgical, headquartered in Trumbull, CT, produces and markets a wide array of products and services for use by women's health care clinicians. More information can be found at www.coopersurgical.com.

Essential functions and accountabilities:

• Provide advice and support to leaders, managers and employees on the full range of employment related matters, consulting or working in conjunction with other HR colleagues and external consultants/advisors as necessary.
• Deliver a robust and compliant HR service across areas of business responsibility ensuring that Talent Acquisition, onboarding and exits are managed appropriately by the HR admin team
• Have a deep understanding of the business and contribute to the business unit strategy.
• A key member of the business teams attending all relevant meetings and business reviews.
• Ensuring the local HR strategy is directly aligned to the overall business strategy and the HR Long Range Strategic Plan (LRSP).
• In collaboration with local leadership teams, recommend appropriate Rewards/Incentive Programs.

HR Operations

• Work with HR policies and initiatives based upon best practice to ensure local effectiveness and legal compliance. 
• Act as the lead for the implementation and continued improvement of all Global HR initiatives.
• Own and manage HR Core data in HCM in partnership with Payroll.
• Manage and execute all contract and employment documentation.
• Provide reporting on turnover, recruitment and Diversity Inclusion statistics for Quarterly Global reviews.

Talent Management

• Facilitate and coordinate talent review process and support the execution of development plans identified leveraging the local and global framework to develop talent.
• Design and implement innovative approaches to attract, develop, retain talent.
• Identify training needs and manage training plans.

Change Management

• Be a change Champion utilizing and driving change management tools.
• Coach leadership and management on how to lead and direct change.

Performance Enablement Process – PEP (Goal Setting, Check In’s & End of Year Review)

• Act as the custodian for the performance management process and MyCooper system
• Analyze and monitor functional area KPI’s for alignment to strategy.
• Upskill and support managers to be effective coaches.
• Upskill employees on effective goal setting and development planning.

Organizational Climate

• Facilitate processes to conduct annual engagement survey.
• Analyze survey results and enable action plan creation and delivery across the business.

Organizational structure design and job profile development

• Stay abreast of any changes in strategy, legislation, market, and business model that could impact on organizational structures.
• Facilitate processes to drive structural changes where required.
• Analyze structures and make recommendation for enhancement from an effectiveness, efficiency and alignment point of view.
• Identify critical positions within structures.
• Drive standardization and consistency of structures and jobs.
• Ensure competency requirements are aligned to competency framework.

Recruitment

• Works closely with the Talent Acquisition team to enable effective resourcing strategies and tools to attract high quality candidates.
• Participate in the selection process.
• Leverage internal talent plans to encourage internal promotions where possible.

Compensation & Benefits

• Ensure a robust internal and external benchmarking processes is followed in all compensation and benefit related activities.
• Build local knowledge in the reward/benefit processes.

Employee Development

• In conjunction with appropriate suppliers (internal or external) plus internal L&D colleagues, ensure that appropriate employees are trained, coached and developed in line with the needs of the business.
• Act as a confidential coach to members of the leadership teams.
• Create and facilitate training to bridge development gaps.

Wellness

• Promote employee wellbeing (Wellness) so that employees remain productive and effective.

Knowledge skills and abilities

• Attention to detail
• Strong Talent Management, Total Rewards, Organizational Development and Change Management skills.
• Ability to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated success within a multinational organization.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Cross cultural awareness. 
• Experience in strategic planning and execution.
• Deep understanding of Labor Law and employment regulations
• Ability to interpret and advise employment law codes from different countries.
• Ability to assess and analyze learning and development requirements.
• Experience in design, development and implementation of salary administration plans and employee benefit programs.
• Experience in analyzing and re-engineering processes and operations, in formulating policy and developing and implementing new strategies and operational plans
• High level of interpersonal and communication skills, Influence, Persuasion, Listening, Empathy.
• Adaptability, flexibility.
• Ability to assess, mentor and build strong internal staff.

Experience

• 4+ years HRBP experience, 6+ years total HR experience
• Proven experience in delivering a robust HR service to a life science business
• Experience supporting R&D, Regulatory, Quality, and Lab preferred

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field; or an equivalent of education and experience.

Work location

• Trumbull, CT or Livingston, NJ

As an employee of CooperSurgical, you'll receive an outstanding total compensation plan. As we believe your compensation goes beyond your paycheck, we offer a great compensation package, medical coverage, 401(k), parental leave, fertility benefits, paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays, and multiple other perks and benefits. Please visit us at www.coopersurgical.com to learn more about CooperSurgical and the benefits of becoming a member of our team.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of CooperSurgical about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at CooperSurgical via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of CooperSurgical, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by CooperSurgical for this position and a valid agreement with CooperSurgical is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the CooperSurgical agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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