Senior HR Director, APAC Commercial

led initiatives with the team and communicating how these programs fit within the overall business and HR strategy. This HRBP must be able to communicate at the executive level, collaborate across boundaries and geographies and work with colleagues across the business and the broad HR team. This role will regularly need to align and collaborate with global organizations, the regional HR teams and other internal HR Centers of Expertise including talent acquisition, talent management and compensation and benefits. The business partner will be the trusted advisor for the leadership team and core member of the leadership team.

This position involves a hybrid work arrangement (a few days per week on-site at the Waters Peenya office in Bangalore).

Responsibilities

• Partners with sales operations and finance on annual incentive structure and planning

• Consults with executive and senior leaders in areas of organization design and development in support of business strategy.

• Facilitates organization and leadership development efforts, working with leaders to identify and address root causes of human capital issues.

• Consults with business leaders on talent, leadership, business strategy/transformation, organizational development and effectiveness, diversity & inclusion, workforce optimization and change management

• Scans and benchmarks the marketplace to identify and leverage best practices / trends to influence the business and HR agenda

• Leads and implements business specific projects and initiatives to deliver on specific business requirements and outcomes

• Viewed as a business partner, change agent, and member of the line leadership staff

• Provides counsel and coaching to leadership and manages overall business relationship on behalf of HR

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree and 15+ years of relevant experience

• Experience working across key countries in Asia Pacific, notably Japan, Korea and India

• Proven ability to proactively translate changing business objectives to effective HR strategies; specific experience needed in Organization Design, Talent Management, Diversity & Inclusion and Change Management

• Strong client relationship management skills and demonstrated experience in developing consultative relationships with executive leaders. Ability to influence at all levels.

Key Competencies and Experience:

• Demonstrated ability to develop, monitor and respond to HR and financial metrics. Able to utilize HR metrics and analytics to partner with business leaders

• Experience working with commercial organizations with demonstrated comprehension of sales incentive strategies

• Strong business acumen with demonstrated ability to understand business goals and objectives

• Demonstrated ability to drive broad complex projects to successful completion

• Ability to communicate globally to all levels of the organization

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving approaches

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.