Director, Human Resources

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Job description

Job Description

Position Overview:

Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent's advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Interested in learning more about life at Catalent? Start here

Job Title: Director, Human Resources

Location: San Diego, CA

The Director of Human Resources oversees the development, implementation, and coordination of all aspects of Human Resources at the San Diego, CA site. This includes being a full member of the Site Leadership Team and being a strategic business partner the General Manager and the various functional leads. This position will maintain an HR presence for all disciplines within HR and ensure the execution of HR for the site in the areas of employee relations, talent acquisition, talent management, and will be responsible for the rollout of corporate initiatives in all areas of HR.

This position will report directly to the Regional Director of Human Resources and have a dotted line (matrixed) reporting to the site General Manager.

The Role

* Be the strategic partner and advisor to the Site Leadership Team to drive engagement, create and sustain an outstanding and unique culture, meet site Gs&Os. Identify issues and trends as well as gaps in programs and develop HR initiatives to address and improve.

* Develop and deliver policies, procedures, plans, processes and budgets to support recruiting, employee relations, compensation and benefits, employee development and training, organizational development, to meet site and business unit objectives.

* Provide counsel & coaching to site leadership, managers and employees on employee relations, conflict resolution, development, and performance. Support, guide, encourage and empower employees and managers to problem solve effectively.

* Partner with business unit leadership in the organization's strategic planning efforts, providing insight on critical HR concerns and ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.

* Supports the Global HR Function in the execution of key HR processes, programs and policies across the region and business units.

* Build credibility and trust to establish strong relationships with employees at all levels and leadership; work closely with management to provide support, guidance and problem resolution.

* In partnership with Talent Acquisition, plan and direct the organization's recruitment and selection of exceptional talent with critical technical skills in a highly competitive market.

* Lead the human resources team of personnel (e.g., HR Managers, HR Generalists, and HR Coordinators) including coaching, training and development.

The Candidate

* Bachelor's degree in related field required; advanced degree preferred.

* 10+ years of experience as an HR professional with at least 2 years of management experience

* Exposure to pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, or related technical industries is highly preferred

* Strong knowledge of California employment, wage & hour knowledge, immigration/visa process knowledge

* Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the business

* Influencer of and change agent

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone's safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

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