Manager, Human Resources Business Partner

Position Overview

In this role you will be responsible for the management and delivery of core people and capability programs, including talent and performance management, year-end compensation planning and workforce planning within a business line.  This position is also responsible for oversight of a facility and managing one HR staff member.

Company Overview

At FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies California, we’re driving the future of medicine with the expertise to produce life-changing cell therapies like T-cell and CAR T immunotherapies. Working with pioneering biotech partners, our teams manufacture innovative treatments that improve lives.

Join us at our advanced Thousand Oaks facility, where you’ll make a tangible impact on groundbreaking therapies. We offer a collaborative, flexible workplace and a vibrant culture driven by passion and energy—what we call Genki. If you’re ready to reimagine the future of healthcare, let’s create something extraordinary together.

Our campus is in Thousand Oaks, California, an exceptional place to live with great schools, natural beauty, outdoor activities, and proximity to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

Job Description

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for talent and performance management, learning, year-end compensation planning, and workforce planning within a business line or geography. 
• Acts as a primary point of contact with COEs on program delivery issues and customizations for the business they support. 
• Coaches’ managers and employees on development, employee relation and reward issues.
• May participate in the roll-out of wellness initiatives and onboarding activities for a business or location. 
• Shares local intelligence and provides a “field perspective” on the effectiveness of programs and initiatives.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on the local labor market and regulatory environment.
• Participates in regular meetings with respective client groups.
• Assist in facilitating performance management tools and processes including goal setting, coaching feedback, and employee development.
• Identify training and development needs for business units and individual employees.
• Drive engagement initiatives.
• Partner with Managers to determine staffing and retention needs and analyze staffing and retention strategy.
• Ensuring job descriptions are updated and maintained.
• Act as an Administrator in the LMS.
• Participate in interview process.
• Proactively partner with business unit managers to optimize employee capabilities and deliver against business objective and priorities.
• Act as a first point of contact for assigned functional groups.
• Works with leaders in restructures to ensure fair and consistent decision making, prepares legal review documentation and participates in termination meetings.
• Maintains non-shared service policies.
• Assists in managing employee relations by investigating and resolving employee issues and concerns.
• Manage and support employee recognition programs.
• Have awareness of HR trends.
• Supports the development and drives the Talent Management agenda for assigned business units.
• Takes the lead role in restructuring activities to ensure fair and consistent decision making. Prepares legal review documentation and participates in all termination meetings.
• Proactively works with management to develop and implement key employee retention strategies, advises and counsels on comp recommendations for internal moves ensuring that performance management is followed through for all assigned employees.
• Strengthen overall organizational capabilities working with managers and leaders to include organizational assessment, organizational structure, workforce planning and change management.
• Serve as champion of company culture, modeling Company standards and deliver exceptional employee experience.
• Maintain compliance with federal, state and local regulations concerning employment law.
• Supervisory responsibilities:
• Responsible for overseeing 1) a site and/or 2) a team of HR professionals within the department, acting as direct manager for the group under the supervision of the HR department head.
• Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff in the department.
• Oversees the daily workflow of the team.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy.
• Provides support and guidance to junior HR staff, management, and other staff when complex, specialized, and sensitive questions and issues arise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
• 8+ years of experience working in Human Resources.
• Understanding HR processes (onboarding, training, and talent management) 
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with all levels of staff.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite of products
• Learning Management System (LMS) and training experience is a plus.
• Strong experience with HRIS programs. Workday experience is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable with public speaking.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact and professionalism.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.

Additional requirements

• May be required to travel.

Salary and Benefits:

• $104,000 to $160,000 per year, depending on experience
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Paid Time Off

Join us! FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is advancing tomorrow’s medicine, impassioning employees to chase the impossible and continually expand their potential. We are a company of emboldened goal seekers – driven by an innate desire to better ourselves, our families, our workplace, our company, our community, and the world at large.

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation and any other status protected by state or federal law.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

EEO Information

Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.

ADA Information

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department ([email protected]).