Eaton Hiring for VP of Human Resources at Carson City, Nevada Full Time

In this role you will be a key business partner and strategist on the senior leadership team for North American Sales (NAS) and the Marketing & Commercial Operations (MCO) organizations and will be responsible for leading the Human Resources function for the $8B North American Sales and commercial support organizations comprised of over 1800 employees located in 48 states with more than 100 sales offices.

As the VP, Human Resources you will be empowered to develop and lead a talent strategy to help us achieve transformational functional excellence. You will identify roadmaps and KPIs to leverage buy, build and partner strategies to meet the needs of this dynamically evolving organization. More specifically, you will work with the leadership teams to drive the business forward while ensuring a progressive focus on culture and talent attraction, development, and retention. You will be expected to be a thought leader regarding the business strategy providing key observations, ideas and suggestions, being an outspoken advocate in identifying both risk and opportunities in the organizations, establishing solid business partnerships and driving functional excellence.

Key deliverables include the development, implementation, and validation of human resources programs, policies and initiatives aligned with short and long-term business plans. Foster a culture in the organization that promotes employee inclusion and engagement and a passion for customer excellence.

In this role, you will report directly to the Senior Vice Presidents of the North American Sales and Marketing and Commercial Operations organizations and functionally to the Senior Vice President, Human Resources ES-A.

• Work with division leadership and functional leaders to drive change, aligning human resources programs and initiatives with strategic objectives and annual business goals.
• Lead transformation for sales – developing capabilities for sales force of the future, evolving the workforce to embrace digital technology, and shaping the customer experience.
• Drive unified plans with measurable metrics that support business, financial and employee engagement goals.
• Lead all talent initiatives: build out succession plans, ensure talent attraction capabilities (recruitment and LDP programs), focus on career development and coaching skills for leaders, and implement effective retention strategies.
• Lead efforts to foster inclusive culture including focus on diversity hiring and retention, survey results, employee wellness and community involvement.
• Drive HR functional excellence through deployment of programs, ensuring quality of process and content alignment.
• Ensure that knowledge retention and sharing mechanisms are developed, continuously improved and sustained.
• Develop, optimize, document and standardize sustainable processes, sharing best practices across the division and larger organization.
• Manage and develop skills of the HR team to support business initiatives and goals.

Qualifications

Experience Preferred:

• Demonstrated expertise in building talent, engaging teams, driving culture change and strategic growth.
• Builder of talent capabilities that meet the future needs of the business.
• Significant experience hiring, coaching, influencing, and promoting effective leaders and driving the development of capable managers.
• Direct experience in a decentralized workforce environment or field- based work organization
• Direct experience supporting commercial organizations / teams
• Strong analytical, communication and leadership skills with an ability to develop, maintain and leverage trusting relationships (up and down organizations) both internally and externally.
• Engaging leadership style with a progressive mindset and change agility

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution is required.
• Master’s degree is strongly preferred, but not required. HR certifications or designations are also a strong plus.
• Minimum of 10 years of increasing responsibility in progressive HR environment.
• Minimum of 5 years leading experienced HR Leaders.
• Knowledge of relevant local/state/federal employment laws.
• Must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship

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Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we’re accelerating the planet’s transition to renewable energy, helping to solve the world’s most urgent power management challenges, and doing what’s best for our stakeholders and all of society. Founded in 1911, Eaton has been listed on the NYSE for nearly a century. We reported revenues of $19.6 billion in 2021 and serve customers in more than 170 countries.

Our culture is built on a strong commitment to practicing our core values and supporting our employees with the tools they need to succeed. We have demonstrated our passion for sustainability with the announcement of cutting carbon emissions from the company’s operations by at least 50 percent by 2030.

Eaton is committed to having a workforce that is diverse and non-discriminatory at all levels, reflecting the diversity of our customers and the varied environments in which we conduct business around the world. Our success depends on our ability to attract and retain the very best people unlimited by race, color, social or economic status, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any protected status. Eaton follows relevant non-discrimination laws and regulations in the countries where we operate. It is the policy of the Company to make all decisions regarding employment, including hiring, compensation, training, promotions, transfers, or lay-offs, based on the principle of equal employment opportunity as defined above.

Job: Human Resources

Region: North America – US/Puerto Rico

Organization: ElectricalAMER

Job Level: Executive

Schedule: Full-time

Is remote work (i.e. working from home or another Eaton facility) allowed for this position?: Yes – Hybrid

Does this position offer relocation?: Relocation from within hiring country only

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time