HR Manager, IT and Business Performance

What you’ll do:

This role offers a tremendous opportunity to lead transformational work alongside senior HR and functional leaders at Eaton. This role supports the following corporate functions: IT, Eaton Business Systems, Continuous Improvement, and Quality. While dedicated to Enterprise Performance, this team member will participate in activities to deliver outcomes impacting the broader IT & Enterprise Performance organization. The HR Business Partner will be responsible for providing strategic and day-to-day HR leadership and support including leading the change management associated with the global transformation programs.

As an integral part of the corporate HR team, this role will identify, develop and deploy business-driven HR strategies designed to attract, manage, develop, motivate and retain key employees while creating a high-performance, sustainable organization capable of achieving the business objectives.

In partnership with functional leadership, this HR leadership role is accountable for the oversight and management of all elements of operational HR including performance and talent management, positive employee relations planning/communication, employee development, succession development and execution, culture/employee engagement, and compensation/benefits.

These functions are currently undergoing several transformations. This HR Business Partner will play a critical leadership role in enabling enterprise transformation initiatives and ensuring organizational readiness for future-state business requirements. In the context of these transformations, this role will help lead the following:

•    Workforce analytics and partnering with functional stakeholders to create a roadmap for workforce transformation
•    Partner with functional stakeholders in the interest of continuous improvement to define and implement process changes and enhancements to optimize organizational effectiveness
•    Drive OAD activities in partnership with these functions for the global functions considering the changing operating model driven by process redesign, automation and digitalization
•    Partnering with functional stakeholders on skills gap analysis and training strategy
•    Evaluate and define the career path for roles in these functions post operating model change
•    Drive and coordinate recruitment of all positions needed as  result of the project or the future operating model
•    Work with local HR as appropriate, to ensure a smooth implementation of change management actions, including any country specific regulatory/works council requirements
•    Lead communications and change management activities
•    Partner with finance to monitor workforce related metrics against plan and drive workforce optimization strategies 

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required.
•    Minimum 10 years of experience working in human resources, operations, management, or business
•    Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Prior experience supporting IT or other technical groups
•    Experience in Program and Project management, coordinating, tracking and reporting across multiple workstreams
•    Previous experience working in a multi-national HR Operational and Management environment across regions globally
•    Experience in partnering with senior leadership to create and drive strategic HR and key functional organization initiatives on an international scale
•    Experience in coaching and advising senior executives on business-critical issues
•    Exposure to Organization Development, including Organizational Change Management, Compensation, Talent Assessment, and Employment Law coupled with practical savvy for coaching management on these topics and applying the knowledge to training and deployment.
•    Experience in driving organizational and cultural changes in a complex environment
•    Experience in introducing new HR initiatives/practices and in driving continuous improvement in a multinational environment.

Skills:

Position Criteria:
•    Proven track record influencing and driving complex and large-scale organizational change
•    Track record of effectively balancing operational and strategic priorities to ensure seamless delivery
•    Collaborative and team-work focused style a must
•    Experience navigating a highly matrixed global organization to execute HR strategy
•    Coordinate with corporate functions and operating for growth project owners 
•    Exposure across technology, manufacturing and power management industries a plus
•    Able to cooperate and influence in a matrix organization
•    25% travel required