Hybrid Director, Human Resources Business Partner bei Twist Bioscience

We're seeking a HR Business Partner to be a trusted advisor and strategic enabler for our Twist leaders. In this critical role, you'll apply your broad HR expertise to coach and evolve departments, providing solutions that address their unique needs while aligning with Twist's overarching HR strategies. You'll play a pivotal role in everything from performance management and talent assessment to organizational design and change management, ensuring our teams have the support and resources they need to thrive.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with Leaders in our General and Administrative business area to enable their success; be a sounding board and trusted advisor
• Provide expertise on people issues and strategies
• Bring solutions that address the needs of the departments while taking into account the broader implications for Twist and our HR strategies 
• Apply a broad HR skill set to coach and evolve the departments to ensure their success. This includes, but is not limited to, performance management; talent assessment; strategic facilitation; organizational design and development; workforce planning; change management
• Ensure alignment to and execution of established Twist-wide human resources policies, procedures, and initiatives
• Execute HR processes (e.g.,talent management, succession planning, performance management, development planning, compensation planning)
• Identify and solve talent issues before they affect the business (e.g., HiPo retention; poor performance management; evolving skill set requirements for team success, etc.)
• Contribute to the hiring process for hiring needs for the leaders and teams you support
• Ensure compliance of all HR practices within area of responsibility and with legislative and regulatory requirements, standards and other known relevant policies and guidelines
• Partner with leaders and managers in the General and Administrative departments to help them build and develop our cutting-edge Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Support teams. 
• Triage and respond to employee relations issues (e.g., employee concerns or complaints, worker’s compensation cases)
• Serve as the go-to HR team member for the General and Administrative departments, including management- and employee- questions and concerns
• Model our core values: Grit, Impact, Service, and Trust

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• Bachelor's degree Human Resources Management, or a related field plus 10+ years of progressively responsible HR experience.
• 8+ years in an HR Business Partner role
• Experience applying a range of HR skills, from leadership enablement to talent assessment
• Team player with very strong ethical orientation
• Must have the ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues, by using judgement that is in consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulation or government law
• Strong aptitude for listening, collaborating, and problem-solving
• Proven track record of high performance
• Ability to objectively coach employees and management through complex and difficult issues to drive us toward a high-performing organization
• Excellent influencing and leadership skills
• Cultural humility to ensure you are successful when partnering and enabling our diverse workforce
• Strong business acumen
• Excellent verbal, written, and communication skills
• Strong computer applications skills (Microsoft Office; Gsuite; Applicant Tracking Systems, etc.)
• Ability to organize and prioritize work

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work experience in a non-HR role at some point during your career (i.e., you bring direct, applied business experience to your HR career)
• Biotech or pharmaceutical experience
• Experience partnering with General and Administrative leaders
• Background in employment law and other government compliance regulations