Director HR, Enabling Functions, APMEA

Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. DESCRIPTION How you will make an impact: As HR Director for Enabling Functions across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA), you will shape and execute the people and organizational strategies that strengthen our enterprise capabilities and advance our Mission. Serving as the strategic HR partner to five Vice Presidents leading key Enabling Functions across APMEA, you will work closely with regional and global leaders across IT, Finance, HR, Legal, Marketing and other critical Enabling Functions. You will translate business and functional priorities into forward-looking organization, leadership and talent strategies, building the capabilities required to enable growth, transformation and performance across one of our most dynamic and diverse regions. Operating at the intersection of global functional strategy and regional business needs, you will bring an enterprise perspective, connect talent and capabilities across organizational boundaries, and help shape an organization positioned for both today’s priorities and the opportunities ahead.

Partner with senior APMEA and global functional leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with business priorities and our 4i values Collaborate with country HR partners across APMEA and global and regional HR partners to drive the Enabling Functions agenda, ensuring alignment across all levels of the HR organization Provide strategic counsel to senior leaders on organization effectiveness, leadership, talent, workforce strategy and culture Translate enterprise and global strategies into APMEA workforce and talent priorities while bringing regional perspectives into global decision-making Anticipate emerging business and workforce requirements and proactively develop HR strategies that strengthen organizational capability across the diverse APMEA landscape Lead organization design and effectiveness initiatives supporting business transformation, productivity and growth across APMEA markets Guide organizational transformations, restructures and integrations across multiple countries, cultures and regulatory environments Use workforce analytics to identify organizational risks, capability gaps and opportunities, translating data into meaningful leadership actions Build sustainable leadership and talent pipelines across Enabling Functions in APMEA to support our Mission Lead talent reviews, succession planning and leadership development, ensuring critical roles have robust plans reflecting APMEA market dynamics Champion internal mobility and cross-functional talent movement to strengthen enterprise capability and develop future leaders Act as strategic people leader for major transformation initiatives, integrating people considerations early into business planning Develop change strategies that build leadership alignment and organizational adoption across diverse markets Partner with leaders to navigate ambiguity while maintaining organizational effectiveness and employee engagement Strengthen high-performance, inclusive culture aligned with our 4i values and leadership expectations Build strong partnerships across HR Centers of Excellence and HR Operations to deliver integrated solutions Create clarity across matrix relationships and coordinate effectively between global functional HR teams, regional teams and