HR Compliance Manager

Job Description

When you are part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join over 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You'll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

This position will serve as a key contributor in driving our HR Compliance strategy and related programs, processes, and initiatives at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The Americas regional scope covers the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The incumbent will report to the Director, HR Compliance - Americas.

• Run the delivery, implementation, and/or improvement of HR compliance-led programs, processes, and initiatives to enable compliance with legal requirements and strategic objectives can be met with speed and scale
• Provide guidance and effective solutions for HR to manage employment-related risks and compliance matters by leveraging technology, automation, and self-service in close partnership with other HR platforms and Employment Law
• Lead and facilitate completion of assigned projects and deliverables (including project and change management) while ensuring key stakeholders are aligned
• Manage and support U.S. state and federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Program (AAP) obligations, including government reporting and OFCCP audits
• Provide guidance to internal U.S. contracts and sales teams on EEO and AAP-related information requests, and certain Corporate HR policies to meet client contract and bid requirements
• Lead and support HR Compliance obligations during integration of newly acquired companies
• Assess and verify HR practices and policies comply with legal requirements as needed
• Identify, recommend changes, and update HR Compliance knowledge bases, policies, process and other related documentation, and support change management activities which may include training, and establishing HR, manager and employee-facing guidelines and FAQs
• Accurately analyze, interpret and present data, legal requirements and risk in a manner which promotes efficient stakeholder engagement and alignment
• Perform related duties as may be assigned from time to time

• Bachelor's degree required
• Informative background or professional certification related to Legal or HR Compliance fields preferred
• 5+ years of experience in an HR or Legal Compliance-related role with demonstrated growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility; experience with employment law subject matter preferred
• Validated ability to perform independent web-based research, analyze and understand legal concepts and the regulatory landscape for employment law
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to efficiently analyze and convey information from employment data and reports in ServiceNow, Workday and Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including in virtual settings
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Great teammate; able to partner, collaborate and work effectively with others
• Ability to effectively prioritize, handle workload, and meet ambitious deadlines
• Solid understanding and proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount