Senior Director - Human Resources at Elanco in Clinton, Indiana

Job Description:

As a leading global animal health company, Elanco delivers innovative products and services to improve the health of pets and farm animals around the world because we believe making animals' lives better, makes life better. Since 1954, we have provided solutions that support veterinarians, farmers and pet owners to advance our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life. Elanco's promise to employees: Together, we foster an inclusive culture where everyone can make a difference, encouraging ownership, growth and well-being.

Position Description:

The Senior Director HRBP is accountable for ensuring that the Manufacturing and Quality business function they support has the organizational capabilities, leadership and talent that are needed and to ensure that those people are engaged, motivated, and appropriately rewarded to achieve both long and short term business objectives.   

This person does this predominantly by providing strategic and operational advice, consultation, and coaching and is expected to influence the site leadership of the BU/Function on critical organization and people-related issues that are critical to achieving business priorities and objectives for which the business leaders are ultimately accountable.

This role works with centers of expertise (COE) in HR including compensation & benefits, recruiting and staffing, leadership development, talent management, organizational effectiveness, Employee Relations and  the Elanco Solutions Center (ESC) HR administration team to ensure that the services, policies, programs, and plans best serve the needs of the business that they support. 

Minimum Qualification (education, experience and/or training, required certifications):

• Bachelors Degree in HR, Business or a related field


• 5-10 years of experience as HRBP in a global company


• Sound experience in a manufacturing/plant environment and shift work


• Ability to develop an HR strategy that meets business needs


• Experience working in a regulated environment


• Effective communication skills


• Inquisitive/curious and self-motivated


• Excel and power point


• Ability to translate strategy to action. Diagnose business problems. Create and implement solutions.


• Ability to manage complex HR matters, including employee relations, performance management, organizational changes


• Develop and use people metrics to inform and drive desired outcomes.


• Demonstrated experience in organization design and change management.


• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization


• Understanding of compensation and benefits strategies and tactics


• ability to learn and get up to speed on HR systems

Additional details:

• Role will sit on the Site Lead Team, M&Q HRLT and Global HRBP Lead Team

Role will also provide supervisory responsibility to select roles on the site including the L&D team

Know the Business and the site:

The Senior Director HR BP is a key member of the Site leadership team that understands and contributes insight into functional/M&Q strategy beyond HR functional expertise

• Learns the culture, environment and style of the site and its leadership


• Challenges the leaders to provide the organization goals and objectives that will stretch the team while balancing risks


• Proactively assesses the organization and implements changes to the organizational design


• Ensures that the site has an effective workforce strategy in place.


• Enables site leadership to recruit, develop and retain talent to meet leadership and technical capabilities needed in the organization


• Provides strategies to help ensure that the workforce is engaged, motivated, and appropriately rewarded to achieve both long- and short-term business objectives.

Bring HR Competence, own the HR agenda:

• Provides strategic and operational advice, consultation, and coaching to the leaders on critical organization and talent-related issues


• Coach and influence site senior management and site lead team to ensure they are best placed to lead the people on the site


• Enables leaders to be efficient in the use of the HR operating model i.e HR Shared Services, COE and HR BP support


• Steward core HR Processes that will roll-up to Sr. Leaders.


• Own the HR agenda for the site and ensure leaders understand expectations and tools available for them


• Ensure HR policies, programs and plans best serve the needs of the organization and partner with the legal and US HRBP leader for adjustments and evolutions


• Works with leaders, teams, and employees within scope of responsibility to drive organizational effectiveness


• Lead and influence managers to execute on key business projects and processes as well as HR deliverables , initiatives and major annual processes


• Responsible for proactive stewardship of Employee Relations for the plant site.  Utilize metrics, trends and data to ensure positive impact to the workforce.  Provide “voice of the employee” to site leadership team.


• Total Reward Implementation.  Outcome: The HR Strategic Business Partner is accountable for advising and influencing site leaders to ensure that total rewards and recognition plans and programs (monetary and non-monetary) drive critical business performance.

Balance the Needs of Leadership, Employees, Functions and the Company:

• Enables high quality informed decisions by advocating, in a balanced way, the needs and priorities of the Company, Management and Employee.


• Maintains objectivity in order to provide business leaders with different perspectives


• Ensure alignment and communication with the functional leaders and HRSBP for M&Q on major decisions that impact functional employees


• Ensure balance of local site variation and global or US consistency

Lead within the Elanco HR function:

• Participate actively in US and HRBP exchanges and ensure best practice sharing and voice of site is being heard


• Partners with HR COEs and ESC to continuously improve HR services


• Partner with functional HRSBP to optimize the HR service delivery


• Role model the HR operating model and the HR mission


• Embrace HR change and transformation. Help own team to manage change.


• Develops HR talent by sharing best practices plus mentoring and/or supervising other HR resources

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status