Senior Human Resources Manager

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.

We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work?

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Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.

We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific regions. Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Business Unit Overview

This position is part of Novanta’s Celera Motion business unit. Derived from the Latin word celer for quick and swift, the name Celera reflects our commitment to delivering motion control solutions that accelerate our customers’ ability to deliver innovative solutions to their markets.

Celera Motion’s cohesive vision, superior technologies, consultative team approach and best-in-class reliability make us the trusted partner in solving the most challenging motion control problems.

Celera Motion’s precision component and subsystem solutions solve application-specific challenges for technology-driven original equipment manufacturers from a range of markets.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Vice President of Human Resources, AET the Sr. Human Resources Manager will be responsible for providing human resources and talent management expertise for the Celera Motion business.

This role will partner with the Celera President and General Manager, along with other business leaders to drive The Novanta Way initiatives and achieve other critical business objectives.

The scope of this position will include providing human resources guidance, consultation, and support across all business functions to drive talent to value efforts as well as talent development.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner across the HR function to develop and deliver value added HR services to the business management team and employees that reflects Novanta’s strong company values and the business objectives of the organization.
• Execute HR talent and organizational priorities and initiatives within the Celera Motion business unit.
• Align talent plans with the business strategy and identify opportunities to improve organizational capability and drive culture change.
• Partner across the HR function to develop and deliver value added HR services to the business management team and employees that reflects our strong company values and the business objectives of the organization.
• Diagnose gaps between current and desired organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organization redesign, process change, coaching and training.
• Develop talent acquisition plans that anticipate short / long-term business needs.
• Coach others on how to engage and retain key talent, identify when there is a retention risk and differentiate between wanted and unwanted turnover.
• Champion and facilitate execution of Novanta Way culture objectives.

Required Experience, Education, Skills and Competencies

• Track record of progressive development through working experiences in various areas of human resources management (HR rotation program, a plus)
• Prior manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Have experience in managing HRIS systems and utilizing data for strategic decision-making.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and business leaders to drive initiatives and achieve critical business objectives
• Demonstrate excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to mentor and develop HR staff.
• Strong analytical and project management skills

Travel Requirements

Occasional travel required up to 15%

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Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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