HR Director, Molecular Biology Business - Join a $40+B Industry Leader!

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Make an Impact Where It Matters Most

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do meaningful work that helps make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Every day, our teams enable groundbreaking discoveries, accelerate life-changing therapies, ensure food and environmental safety, and help solve some of the world's most complex scientific challenges.

When you join us, you're joining a global community united by a shared Mission and empowered with the resources, collaboration, and opportunities to grow your career while making a real difference.

What You'll Do

As an HR Director, you'll be a key strategic partner to senior business leaders, shaping people strategies that fuel business performance and organizational growth. This is a high-impact leadership role where you'll influence decisions, guide transformation, and help build an exceptional employee experience across a global organization.

You'll translate business priorities into forward-thinking HR strategies that strengthen leadership, accelerate talent, and enhance organizational effectiveness. Leveraging data, insights, and a deep understanding of the business, you'll help leaders navigate change, develop high-performing teams, and foster an inclusive culture grounded in Thermo Fisher Scientific's 4i Values—Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.

Whether advising executives on organizational design, leading change initiatives, or driving talent strategies, you'll serve as a trusted advisor who helps the business—and our people—thrive.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with senior leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Drive organizational design, workforce planning, and change management initiatives that enable growth.
• Coach and influence leaders on talent, performance, employee relations, succession planning, and leadership effectiveness.
• Champion an inclusive, high-performance culture that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional talent.
• Leverage data and workforce insights to identify opportunities, measure outcomes, and inform strategic decisions.
• Collaborate across global, cross-functional teams to deliver scalable HR solutions that support a complex matrix organization.
• Lead with credibility, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset to help the business achieve outstanding results.

What You Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree with 6+ years of progressive HR experience, or Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant experience as a senior HR Business Partner within a large multinational organization.
• Preferred fields of study include Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a related discipline.
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or other professional HR certifications are preferred.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Proven ability to translate business strategy into impactful people strategies and organizational outcomes.
• Experience partnering with senior executives in a complex global matrix environment.
• Deep expertise across core HR disciplines, including talent management, organizational development, employee relations, compensation, and talent acquisition.
• Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, change management, and organizational design initiatives.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect HR initiatives to measurable business results.
• Excellent analytical skills with experience using data to drive decisions and influence stakeholders.
• Outstanding communication, executive presence, and presentation skills.
• Strong coaching and consulting capabilities with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and the ability to manage highly confidential information with integrity.
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, PPI, or other continuous improvement methodologies is a plus.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously.
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 10–20% as business needs require.

Why Thermo Fisher Scientific?

This is more than an HR leadership role—it's an opportunity to help shape the future of a global organization whose work improves lives every day. If you're energized by solving complex business challenges, influencing executive leaders, and building organizations where people and innovation thrive, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $160,100.00–$213,400.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards