**Why join Stryker?**:
Our total rewards package offering includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.
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**Position Summary**:
**Who we Want**:
**Assertive communicator.** Ensures team communicates effectively with managers to execute programs, policies, and procedures to drive an engaged and performing organizational culture. Effectively facilitate discussions with and deliver communications to large groups of people.
**Leader.** Provide overall management and leadership to team of HR professionals.
**Problem Solver.** Analyzes root causes of work environment issues; manages interventions and solutions in collaboration and cooperation with key stakeholders. Demonstrated conflict resolution skills.
**Consultant.** Strong facilitation, consulting, relationship-building, influence, negotiation skills, and project management skills.
**Analytically driven and oriented.** Demonstrated business and analytical ability with a proven ability to build relationships and influence different groups.
**What you will do**:
**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:
Human Resources Expertise
- Implements change based on proven change management techniques
- Applies policies and procedures across organization; interprets both policies and changes to policy
- Applies compliance knowledge to protect organization and mitigate risk
- Seeks ways to proactively improve organizational processes and outcomes; implements solutions that are aligned and consistent with global HR best practices
- Identifies and reports trends to Senior HR Leaders for business unit
Relationship Management
- Facilitates difficult interactions among organizational stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes; resolves escalated conflicts among stakeholders
- Influences Senior Leadership of assigned business unit or geography in order to execute HR Strategy
- Builds consensus and settles disputes on HR policy and practice decisions
Business Acumen
- Maintains broad-based knowledge of the organization and its operations; uses knowledge of business and HR metrics to facilitate business decisions
- Demonstrates working knowledge of the labor market and its relationship to organizational success
Consultation
- 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
Leadership
- Executes programs, policies, and procedures to drive an engaged and performing organizational culture
- Executes consistent HR services for the operating entity
HR Insights
- 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
**What you need**:
**Education & Special Trainings**:
- B.A. or B.S from accredited university
- Advanced Degree preferred
**Qualifications & Experience**:
- 10 years of work experience and/or previous HR experience at the Sr. Manager level required
- Expertise in supporting multiple and ever-changing complex business units in an HR generalist capacity required
- Previous demonstrated experience interacting with COE's and business leaders
- 10+ years of increasingly responsible human resources experience preferred
- Strong facilitation, consulting, relationship-building, influence, negotiation skills, and project management skills
- Demonstrated business and analytical ability with a proven ability to build relationships and influence different groups
- Ability to understand business needs and connect those to human resources strategies and plans for assigned business unit or geography
- Demonstrated implementation and execution ability
- Capability to interact with individuals at all levels within the organization
- Skilled with change processes in complex systems
- Demonstrated conflict resolution skills
- Strong situational assessment and objective evaluation skills
- Advanced written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
**Physical & Mental Requirements**:
Must be able to:
- Exercise independent judgment with strong attention to detail
- Analyze, understand and communicate complicated issues to Managers and Employees to ensure understanding
- Develop solutions based on best practices and customer feedback
- Solicit input from managers and exercise independent judgment in providing recommendations to the business
- Effectiv