Vice President, Human Resources
Emerson
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boulder • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $175,000 - $230,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Serve as the global strategic HR Business Partner to the Flow Leadership team (President & direct reports), advising on short- and long-term business challenges, including organizational growth, workforce capability, talent needs, and change management.
- Drive transformative organizational change initiatives by translating business strategies into HR priorities while also operationalizing global HR initiatives within the business, ensuring enterprise programs, policies, and capabilities are effectively adopted and adapted to local needs.
- Lead HR support for significant organizational changes, including integrations, restructures, organizational design efforts, and role realignments.
- Partner with HR leaders across the global team to ensure alignment on priorities, expectations, and communications while enabling each to execute within its local context.
- Provide direct HR leadership for the Boulder, Colorado, site, while offering matrixed/dotted-line oversight, guidance, and coaching to HR managers in Long Island, New York, and Chihuahua, Mexico.
- Lead, coach, and develop a diverse HR team, ensuring clarity of roles within the redefined HR operating model (HRBP, Site HR/People Experience Partners, HR Capabilities).
- Foster an inclusive, highly engaged, and collaborative team culture with strong communication norms and alignment across regions.
- Lead global talent and org review using the established frameworks, driving succession planning, performance calibration, and leadership development.
- Partner with leaders to identify high-potential talent and create development experiences that strengthen capability, readiness, and retention across critical roles.
- Support workload planning, talent forecasting, and capability needs in alignment with growth and footprint strategies, ensuring work is optimally placed across domestic and international locations.
- Oversee complex employee relations matters within North America, ensuring a fair, compliant, and psychologically safe approach that appropriately balances employee and business needs.
- Coach senior leaders on navigating complex organizational issues.
Requirements
- Proven experience in strategic leadership roles supporting matrixed or multi-site organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with senior leaders and influence decision-making.
- Strong expertise in change leadership, organizational development, and employee relations.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, relationship-building, and coaching skills.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States – Sponsorship will not be provided for this position now and in the future.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Employee Assistance Program
- Profit sharing retirement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee resource groups
- Recognition programs
- Flexible time off plans
- Paid parental leave (maternal and paternal)
- Vacation and holiday leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
organizational developmentchange leadershipemployee relationstalent forecastingsuccession planningperformance calibrationleadership developmentworkforce capabilityorganizational designrole realignment
Soft skills
strategic leadershipinfluence decision-makingcommunicationfacilitationrelationship-buildingcoachingteam culturecollaborationengagementclarity of roles