Human Resources Business Partner

You will join the HR team supporting Molex's Optical Solutions Business Unit (OSBU), a fast-growing organization focused on enabling next-generation optical connectivity solutions. This role will partner closely with engineering, product management, and technical marketing leaders primarily based in Bridgewater, NJ while collaborating with HR partners across North America.

As a trusted business partner and the primary HR resource for segment leadership, you will play a key role in building talent pipelines, developing future leaders, and helping the organization scale for continued growth. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment where initiative, curiosity, and innovative ideas are encouraged and valued.

• Partner closely with site and business leadership to understand business priorities, organizational needs, and talent requirements, translating them into effective people strategies.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational design, workforce planning, talent development, team effectiveness, succession, and retention.
• Coach supervisors and leaders on people leadership, establishing clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations (RREs), providing effective feedback, managing performance, and developing capability within their teams.
• Proactively identify organizational and talent opportunities and develop HR solutions that support continued business growth.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders while demonstrating the courage to provide candid feedback, respectfully challenge thinking, and bring forward alternative perspectives.
• Drive talent management, succession planning, and individual development discussions to strengthen leadership pipelines and critical capabilities.
• Leverage HR data and organizational insights to identify workforce trends, talent risks, and opportunities that inform business decisions.
• Champion Principle Based Management (PBM), partnering with leaders and employees to strengthen its understanding and application throughout the organization.
• Partner with leaders on key HR processes, including compensation and workforce planning, talent reviews, performance management, and employee development.
• Provide guidance on employee relations matters, including investigations, performance concerns, conflict resolution, and other workplace issues, exercising sound independent judgment and discretion.
• Support an effective employee experience, including onboarding, employee questions, and day-to-day HR needs.
• Support consistent application of HR policies and compliance with applicable New Jersey and federal employment requirements.
• Contribute to organizational change, business growth initiatives, and other HR projects based on evolving business needs.
• Collaborate with HR colleagues across locations to share knowledge, best practices, and organizational priorities.

• Progressive HR experience, including experience as an HR Business Partner, HR Manager, or HR Generalist supporting business leaders.
• Experience coaching and advising leaders on employee relations, performance management, talent development, and organizational matters.
• Experience independently handling employee relations matters and workplace investigations.
• Experience analyzing, interpreting, and presenting HR or workforce data to inform business decisions.
• Strong working knowledge of New Jersey employment law and employee relations best practices.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 10% of the time.

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field.
• Experience supporting engineering, R&D, optics, photonics, semiconductor, hardware, manufacturing, or other technical organizations.
• Experience with organizational transformation, change management, mergers and acquisitions, or business integration.
• Advanced skills in data analytics with demonstrated experience connecting HR data and insights to business and talent strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, challenge, and partner effectively with leaders at multiple levels of an organization.
• Experience supporting a technical, engineering, manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex business environment.

For this role, we anticipate paying $140,000 to $180,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.