Human Resources Business Partner
Zoetis

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, they provide HR consultancy and coaching to leaders, managers and colleagues within assigned client group. The primary client group is colleagues, managers, and the Leadership Team within the Kalamazoo Global Manufacturing & Supply (GMS) organization as well as other miscellaneous groups within the enabling functions of GMS.

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.

Through onsite presence, s/he will partner with the business in the areas of employee relations, talent acquisition, colleague engagement, talent management, leadership development, change management, diversity, 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 the organization.

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 Diversity, Equity 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 expert 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 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

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree is required; Master's degree is preferred.
• 8-10 years of relevant HR experience is required, preferably in a manufacturing environment.

Technical Skills:

• 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 Demonstrated ability to provide consultative support to management on critical organization issues.
• 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 (situational leadership)
• 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:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a colleague encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This role is site based in Kalamazoo MI.
• General work hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in an office setting.
• Ability to access manufacturing plant and to use necessary personal protective equipment.
• Limited travel may be possible within the U.S. (< 5%).

Full time

Regular

Colleague

Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.

Zoetis is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status or any other protected classification. Disabled individuals are given an equal opportunity to use our online application system. We offer reasonable accommodations as an alternative if requested by an individual with a disability. Please contact Zoetis Colleague Services at zoetiscolleagueservices@zoetis.com to request an accommodation. Zoetis also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. All applicants must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis. Zoetis retains sole and exclusive discretion to pursue sponsorship for the acquisition or maintenance of nonimmigrant status and employment eligibility, considering factors such as availability of qualified US workers. Individuals requiring sponsorship must disclose this fact. Please note that Zoetis seeks information related to job applications from candidates for jobs in the U.S. solely via the following: (1) our company website at www.Zoetis.com/careers site, or (2) via email to/from addresses using only the Zoetis domain of "@zoetis.com". In addition, Zoetis does not use Google Hangout for any recruitment related activities. Any solicitation or request for information related to job applications with Zoetis via any other means and/or utilizing email addresses with any other domain should be disregarded. In addition, Zoetis will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with Zoetis.

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