HR Business Partner

BASF’s Agricultural Solutions division connects innovation, customers, partners and agricultural experts and integrates sustainability criteria into all business decisions. We help farmers deliver the best possible outcomes, working to achieve the balance between economic, environmental and social value creation for sustainable and efficient agriculture.

As a member of the Agricultural Solutions HR Team, the HR Business Partner provides strategic thought leadership, partnership, and solutions regarding people, culture, and capability to site leaders and their teams. You will oversee HR operations at multiple Ag Solutions manufacturing sites in the U.S.

As the HR Business Partner, you will lead the communication, execution, and delivery of a variety of HR programs, best practices, organizational consultations, and coaching. You will navigate ambiguity with influence, flexibility, and adaptability through multiple levels in the organization.

To achieve goals, as HR Business Partner, you’ll demonstrate your passion for attaining insights and endeavors and bring foresight, with forward thinking, to resolve business/function opportunities and challenges. Your understanding of the intersection of people, processes, and technologies is critical as you develop robust data analytics capabilities that support strategic and operational objectives of the operating division and assigned businesses/functions.

As a HR Business Partner, you create chemistry by...

• Your robust understanding of business partnering philosophy, strategy, and learning agility will help you quickly adapt to understanding, driving, and supporting business/function strategic/tactical interventions, initiatives, and key themes from inception through delivery.
• Working collaboratively and effectively as a trusted advisor with key stakeholders, you will provide influence in areas of strategic workforce planning for assigned business/functional areas to ensure alignment with organizational strategies, goals, and objectives. You’ll seek to identify appropriate, practical, and innovative solutions leveraging your comprehensive business expertise.
• Conducting regular visits to manufacturing sites to build collaborative relationships with stakeholders and drive HR initiatives that align with business objectives.
• Ensuring your strong contribution demonstrates impact by leveraging sound diagnosis skills, metrics, and results-driven data to shape solutions, collaborating with other HR resources both for the operating division and corporate.
• Your consultative traits will impactfully enhance your stakeholder’s knowledge, skillset, and process awareness to ensure the expected benefits are achieved and sustained through active listening and follow-up.
• Your facilitation and training expertise will help you communicate when necessary, including strong presentations to executives. This will include methodologies to measure the impacts, benefits, and areas of opportunities for projects post-execution and in other relative areas.
• Leveraging your business curiosity and results-driven nature, you will continuously identify opportunities to enhance your areas of responsibility, ensuring each remains relevant and aligned with the needs of our regional/global-based stakeholders. You will also be responsible for enhancing leadership capability, succession management, and development within the broader organizations.
• Driving solutions, you’ll leverage your ability to analyze data, identify trends, and prepare executive summaries of analysis by mining large sets of data (talent, performance, demographics, etc.) to discover opportunities and process improvements that further support and enable talent dashboards/discussions.
• Demonstrating your analysis experience by utilizing reporting tools and software, with emphasis on Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, SAP, Visier, Success Factors, and SharePoint.

If you...

• Hold bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field (master’s degree preferred).
• Possess SHRM-CP Certification preferred.
• Have 8+ years of experience in progressive HR roles with a strong focus on employee experience, talent development, compensation, and HR analytics.
• Have experience supporting manufacturing and working with site leadership teams.
• Are a strategic thinker with a passion for creating and planning programs and initiatives that foster a culture of growth, inclusivity, and engagement.
• Have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of organization.
• Hold high emotional intelligence and ability to manage complex employee relations issues.
• Are data-driven mindset, with the ability to translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Hold a deep understanding of HR trends, challenges, and best practices in North America (U.S).
• Have experience managing change within an organization, especially introducing new policies or programs that impact employee experience and culture.

Create your own chemistry with you@BASF

At BASF, you will have the chance to do meaningful work towards building a more sustainable future. In addition to competitive compensation and benefits, BASF provides you with access to a wide range of elements to help you be your best. It’s what we call you@BASF . We are committed to providing benefits, programs, and opportunities that support our employees’ overall well-being, personal growth, and a safe, collaborative, and inclusive work environment.

Just some of the many benefits we offer include:

• Flexible work arrangements whenever possible
• Highly competitive retirement savings plan with company match and investment options
• Well-being programs that include comprehensive mental health support for you and your household family members
• Family forming benefits (fertility, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, maternity/parental leave, and more)
• Back-up child and elder care with discount programs for families of all ages and stages
• Mentoring and career development opportunities that allow you to share, learn, and thrive
• Matching gifts program that allows you to deepen the impact of your contributions to qualified charities.
• Employee crisis support for when the unexpected happens
• Access to our BASF wine cellar, employee discounts, and much more!

About us

As one of the largest chemical companies in North America we have been finding solutions for your everyday needs and addressing the most complex economic, environmental, and sustainability challenges for more than 150 years!

At BASF we empower our employees with the tools, guidance and opportunities they need to advance and succeed in work and life. Giving you the support you need to be your best and fulfill your personal ambitions is what helps us create chemistry. After all, our success is linked to yours. Whatever path you envision, BASF is a great place to build a rewarding, successful career.

Belong to Something Bigger. #belongatBASF

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