Human Resources Business Partner - Eurofins Environment Testing USA--Eurofins - Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions, LLC

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Eurofins NDSC Environment Testing USA, Inc. is searching for a candidate who will physically sit in one of our laboratory locations in either Tustin, CA or Sacramento, CA.

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) will join with business leaders to develop Human Resources strategies that enable the business to achieve its goals. The HRBP will have a deep understanding of operations on both a regional and individual location level and will assist managers with critically assessing talent strategies and implications of people-related decisions. The HRBP will engage with leaders on those items that are strategic in nature and have broad impact and multi-dimensional implications such as staffing plans, employee engagement and recognition programs, succession planning, performance management, compensation planning, etc.

The HRBP, although part of the NDSC Legal Entity, is intended to be embedded within the business units to assist with planning and implementing people-related strategies aligned with goals and challenges.

The HR Business Partner's responsibilities include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Conduct regular meetings with respective business units to stay abreast of issues, trends, and climate.
• Work closely with management and employees to improve relationships, build morale and engagement, increase productivity, and improve retention.
• Encourage positive changes in the people management (e.g. actively identifies talent gaps and implements solutions to reduce risk; designs succession plans for key talents and key job positions).
• Perform analysis of key human resources metrics such as attrition and employee engagement survey results to identify trends and work with management to develop appropriate actions plans.
• Provide HR Policy guidance and interpretation.
• Provide guidance to business leadership on staffing plan development, organizational design, performance management, compensation, retention strategies, training and development needs, and workforce planning.
• Partner with Operations to develop creative and flexible staffing solutions to respond to highly cyclical business volumes.
• Conduct effective, thorough, and objective investigations; and manage and resolve complex employee relations issues.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of multi-state legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Partner with legal department as needed/required.
• Partner with Leadership Development for both general leadership courses and specific HR sessions.
• Primary point of contact for Affirmative Action reporting and action planning.
• Liaison with National Service Center on Leave, Benefit, and Payroll related items.
• Support and drive overall HR initiatives throughout the organization.
• Lead and manage projects as necessary.

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements below are a representative of the knowledge, skill or ability required.

• Strong generalist Human Resources skills particularly in Employee Relations, Leadership Development and Employment Compliance.
• System aptitude in HCM and MS Office (particularly in MS Excel and PowerPoint).
• Effective communication skills (listening, oral and written).

The ideal candidate would possess the following abilities and/or skills:

• Ability to effectively envision, develop, and implement new strategies to address complex business issues.
• Ability to identify and anticipate client needs and make recommendations for solutions that align with business goals.
• Ability to develop strong trusting relationships, including those at remote locations, in order to gain support and achieve results.
• Understanding of labor costs and ability to develop solutions for managing costs in highly cyclical business environment.
• Advanced HCM and MS Office skills
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills.
• Exceptional conflict management skills
• Effective interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in human resources or related field.

Experience:

• 5+ years of HR Business Partner or HR Generalist experience; experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

Certificates and/or Licenses:

• HRCI or SHRM PHR or SPHR preferred. 

Additional Preferences:

• Previous Federal Contractor AAP experience.
• Competence in Oracle HCM.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of time.
• Maintain working office at one of our laboratory locations.

Compensation Range: $75,000 - $95,000 with benefits, PTO and company matching 401K plan

Eurofins Environment Testing (USA) provides a compensation range for informational purposes, the actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience and skill set, base salary of internal peers, business section, and geographic location

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description:

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.