Human Resources Business Partner

As a member of the Zoetis HR team, the HR Business Partner serves as the main HR strategic advisor to the business and works directly with senior leadership, managers, and colleagues to deploy HR solutions. Specifically, the HRBP provides HR consultancy and coaching to leaders, managers and colleagues within an assigned client group. Specifically, this role will support the Atlanta manufacturing facility within the Biologicals/Biopharmaceuticals platform of Global Manufacturing & Supply.

In this onsite client-facing role, the HR Business Partner leverages business group knowledge to identify and implement HR related improvement opportunities across the business. Additionally, s/he will partner with the HR Centers of Excellence (CoE) and Zoetis Colleague Services team (ZCS) to assess the delivery of HR programs and services to ensure the needs of the organization and the business are being met.

The HRBP will partner with the business in the areas of employee relations, talent acquisition, colleague engagement, talent management, leadership development, change management, DEI, performance management, workforce planning and compensation planning/implementation. Will also partner with other members of the U.S. HR team to ensure successful delivery of HR programs and initiatives across multiple U.S. locations.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business leadership, managers, and colleagues as the primary HR strategic advisor for the GMS business
• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with leadership and proactively provide advice and the people context for business decisions
• Manage and build a strategic talent pipeline and workforce plan across the organization
• Represent and educate managers and colleagues on principles of Engagement and Inclusion
• Promote the strategic relationship between HR and management to define business challenges, identify opportunities to deliver value-added HR services and programs, and translate them into focused HR initiatives
• Network and collaborate with other HR Business Partners, CoEs and ZCS to agree on a common innovation agenda, agree on the people agenda throughout the organization, leverage experiences / practices across geographies, and evaluate effectiveness of HR solutions
• Partner with the CoE and ZCS to ensure that HR programs are feasible for the business and can be implemented
• Interpret and administer HR policies policy within delegated authority
• Partner with managers, the Benefits CoE, and the Leaves of Absence experts to interpret and manage individual Short-Term Disability, FMLA, and ADA claims
• Actively listen and seek to understand various points of view to arrive at best solution
• Embrace and drive change for HR programs
• Support colleague engagement and cultural programs and initiatives
• Confidently manage upwards and downwards throughout the organization
• Monitor HR data and trends and leverage business intelligence to provide new insights using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data and People Analytics
• Monitor results of the delivered HR programs, and work with the CoE and ZCS to facilitate changes and improvements as needed
• Actively promote and reinforce the Zoetis Core Beliefs

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree or JD preferred
• 5+ years of HR experience required
• Strong business acumen with demonstrated understanding of business strategy
• Ability to build deep and influential business partnerships throughout the organization by demonstrating an understanding of business fundamentals and decision-making processes
• Strong analytical abilities to illustrate HR's impact on the organization
• Embraces change and views challenges as business opportunities
• Demonstrated success in championing change
• Ability to confidently facilitate conversations between people with differing views and backgrounds
• Ability to modify own behaviors and approaches to address diverse needs and audiences
• Ability to breakdown complex situations into individual components and understand the interrelationship between these components
• Demonstrated success working in a global, complex organization across functions, cultures, and levels
• Adept and flexible and creative problem-solving
• Experience with people management and development
• Able to appropriately push back and challenge the status quo
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with senior level managers and executives
• HR Information Systems experience preferred, Workday a plus
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office software

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to travel to U.S. locations as needed (5-10%).
• Position is onsite in Atlanta, GA (Lithia Springs)

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