HR Business Partner

About the role

As a Business Partner, you will work to enhance organizational performance, productivity and effectiveness through our people. Partnering with operations leaders, your objective will be to support the achievement of organizational goals and objectives in a team setting. Your role will have responsibility to support and deliver HR projects for our manufacturing operations and take responsibility for supporting change initiatives across your client groups. You will play a key role in building people manager and leader capability, drive employee engagement and deliver operational outcomes to meet client needs. This is a 1-year fixed-term contract role. Key focus areas: People Operations Excellence Work closely with HR Shared Services and COEs to ensure policies and programs to support initiatives in line with HR and business priorities. Programs cover several or all of the following: recruiting, employee movements, employee relations, learning and development, human resources information systems, compensation and benefits, talent management and performance management) Provides day-to-day operations support and performance management guidance to line management- coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions Support regulatory reporting and audit compliance. Champion continual process improvement within HR processes. Talent Management: Partner with operations leaders to translate business strategy into workforce plans that address current and future talent needs. Partner with business leaders to identify critical talent needs and build targeted strategies for attraction, development, engagement, and retention. Drive talent review processes, including assessment of performance, potential, and readiness, to support robust people decisions. Facilitate succession planning discussions for critical roles and key leadership positions across manufacturing operations. Change Management Proactively guide our operations leaders and employees through exercises and activities that better position the organization to implement and realise change; Help to align our leaders and employees, support engagement activities, minimize risks and maintain an open dialogue/solid partnership to influence and drive the change agenda. HR Analytics and Projects Proactively use data to anticipate future manufacturing HR practices, trends and issues in an effort to make meaningful improvements. Use workforce data and people analytics to identify trends, capability gaps, attrition risks, and resourcing priorities. Conceptualize, design and participate in HR and people projects at divisional or market level working collaboratively with other HR and business colleagues To Be Successful In This Role You Will Possess 10 years of relevant work experience as a HR practitioner, desirably with a minimum of 3-5 years in business partnering, business transformation and analytics Experience in a multi-national, regulated manufacturing environment, desirably in the life sciences or pharma sector Understanding of HR systems and knowledge of local labor laws and regulation Required Skills: Benefits Administration, Change Management, Compensation Strategies, Functional Expertise, HR Best Practices, HR Initiatives, HR Systems Implementation, Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Human Resource Metrics, Human Resources (HR) Software Systems, Learning and Development (L&D), Project Management, Recruiting Processes, Talent Development, Workforce Analytics Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. Employee Status: Temporary (Fixed Term) Relocation: VISA Sponsorship: Travel Requirements: Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: Valid Driving License: Hazardous Material(s): Job Posting End Date: 06/22/2026 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.