Associate Director, HR Business Partner - Endoscopy

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions. 

About the role: 

Boston Scientific is a place where you can find meaningful purpose, improving lives through your life's work. In the Endoscopy division, we provide advanced technologies for diagnosing and treating diseases of the digestive system, airway, and lungs. Our robust product portfolio offers a variety of solutions, including but not limited to balloon dilation, stenting, ERCP/cholangioscopy, biliary, biopsy and polypectomy, hemostasis, radiofrequency ablation, and enteral feeding. We continue to innovate and invest in endoscopy treatments, both within established product lines and in future pipelines. 

This role reports directly to the Vice President of Human Resources for the Endoscopy division and will support R&D, Medical Affairs, Clinical, Regulatory Affairs, and Finance functions You will work closely with COE partners and functional colleagues across the BSC HR matrix to align HR strategies with business objectives, ensuring our people remain our most valuable asset. Your leadership will help foster a culture of high performance, global collaboration, innovation, care, diversity, and a strong winning spirit. By providing guidance and expertise, you will enable teams to not only meet but exceed expectations, supporting our mission to advance science for life. Your commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive environment will help our employees thrive, reinforcing our organization's leadership in addressing the needs of patients and customers.

Based in Marlborough, MA, the position follows a hybrid schedule, requiring 3 days per week onsite.

Your responsibilities will include:

• HR Business Strategy:  Collaborate with senior leadership to achieve business goals and objectives by implementing purposeful people and organizational design strategies. These initiatives are aligned with the specific needs of a highly matrixed organization, supporting both business growth and talent development. 
• Workforce Planning:  Develop and execute a comprehensive workforce plan across various locations. Anticipate future talent needs, proactively address potential shortages or surpluses, optimize resource allocation, and build a resilient, agile team. 
• Talent Management: Develop and lead the talent agenda by creating plans to assess talent, conduct pipeline analysis, and address gaps to support internal development and mobility. Partner with senior leadership to build strategies for attracting talent to the organization. 
• Building Culture:  Partner with leaders to promote and integrate company values and behaviors, ensuring they are used to motivate and engage a high-performing global team. 
• Diversity & Inclusion: Foster an inclusive and diverse workplace where all team members can contribute to their full potential and feel a sense of belonging while pursuing organizational objectives. Advise leaders on strategic initiatives to continuously enhance the organization's culture, diversity, and inclusion. 
• HR Model Leadership: Collaborate with site HR teams, HR Centers of Excellence, and key stakeholders to deliver comprehensive and effective HR solutions to client groups. Advise clients on utilizing the appropriate HR channels (e.g., People Services, OneConnect). Provide leadership and mentorship to HR partners and peers while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, productive feedback, and continuous learning within the HR function. 
• Organizational Design: Partner with business leaders to assess organizational needs and develop solutions that enhance performance, productivity, and team effectiveness. Lead change management initiatives and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement. 
• Endoscopy HR Team: Actively contribute to the Endoscopy HR team by supporting division-wide HR initiatives and occasionally representing the Endo division on global and company-wide projects. 
• Coaching & Mentoring: Serve as a coach and mentor to leaders, establishing yourself as a credible advisor 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree. 
• 10+ years of progressive human resources experience, preferably in a similarly sized global organization. 
• Ability to travel up to 10% to other sites as needed to support business objectives.
• Strong business acumen with proven, in-depth experience in assessing, identifying, designing, and implementing talent management and organizational effectiveness initiatives. 
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to leverage insights to inform forward-thinking strategies for talent and organizational evolution. 
• Proven relationship-building and influencing skills, with a strong track record in both. 
• Demonstrated ability to address highly complex business challenges, managing both urgent short-term issues and long-term strategic priorities. 
• Deep understanding of talent acquisition and development, with experience in creating and deploying effective engagement and retention strategies. 
• Strong commitment to defining and delivering diversity and inclusion strategies. 
• Experience in guiding, coaching, and advising senior executives as a credible business partner. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build strong networks. 
• Demonstrated experience as an active sponsor, mentor, and/or coach of talent. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Demonstrated cultural agility with the ability to effectively lead and collaborate globally across divisions, regions, and functions. 
• Self-directed work style, with the ability to work independently, delivering results with a customer focus and a strong sense of urgency. 
• Experience in developing and implementing workforce planning strategies. 
• Current or previous experience at Boston Scientific. 

Requisition ID: 590907

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.