Senior Manager, HR Business Partner - West

Stryker is a global leader in innovative medical technologies, and they are seeking a Senior Manager, HR Business Partner to execute the talent strategy for the Joint Replacement Sales team. This role involves providing HR partnership to leaders and managers, focusing on employee relations, retention, and business processes while implementing HR strategies aligned with organizational goals.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver HR partnership to Managers, Directors and Senior Leaders through workforce planning, talent management, performance management, employee relations and the orchestration of other HR services for assigned business unit or geography as the subject matter expert in Human Resources
• Implements change based on proven change management techniques
• Applies policies and procedures across organization; interprets both policies and changes to policy
• Seeks ways to proactively improve organizational processes and outcomes; implements solutions that are aligned and consistent with global HR best practices
• Facilitates difficult interactions among organizational stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes; resolves escalated conflicts among stakeholders
• Builds consensus and settles disputes on HR policy and practice decisions
• Maintains broad-based knowledge of the organization and its operations and provides business partnership to Leaders and Directors
• Executes HR business strategies to drive key business results and provides guidance on HR matters, partnering with subject-matter experts to develop needed solutions
• Demonstrates working knowledge of the labor market and its relationship to organizational success
• Partners with managers and HR to proactively implement business solutions, utilizing HR expertise and perspective; supports managers on HR projects
• Proactively coaches managers, directors and business leaders on HR and business-related issues
• Aligns solutions with business unit HR strategy and advocates for solution implementation
• Executes programs, policies, and procedures to drive an engaged and performing organizational culture
• Implements and delivers solutions and interventions that address issues of retention, change management, employee engagement, and leadership development, partnering with subject-matter experts as appropriate
• Interprets data and makes recommendations; asks critical questions needed to evaluate data; gathers, analyzes and presents data to managers, directors and business leaders and recommends solutions that support the culture and the defined HR strategy
• Analyzes root causes of work environment issues; manages interventions and solutions in collaboration and cooperation with key stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of working experience required or 16+ years of total work experience required
• Previous HR or role-related experience required
• 5+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience
• Experience in multiple HR disciplines or client groups
• Experience working in a large, global, matrix organization with demonstrated experience interacting with COE's and business leaders
• Experience supporting a large sales or commercial organizations
• Progressive work history in HR with the ability to understand business needs and connect those to human resources strategies for the business
• Preferred candidate will sit in the Pacific or Mountain time zone