As the
Senior HR Business Partner, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within a high-impact, innovation-driven technology portfolio, translating business strategy into HR strategy. In this role, you will drive talent, organizational design, and culture initiatives that enable a fast-moving, highly technical workforce to deliver on IDEXX's innovation and security priorities.
You will play a key role in ensuring that senior leaders across this portfolio have a strategic HR partner who can accelerate their integration, strengthen their leadership pipelines, and shape a culture built for performance and growth.
In this role:- You will serve as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, compensation, and talent strategies.
- You will enable leadership transitions by establishing strong operating rhythms, clarifying expectations, and positioning leaders for early success.
- You will provide executive coaching that strengthens leadership effectiveness and decision-making, including candid feedback and constructive challenge.
- You will broker high-performing collaboration across senior teams, assessing bench strength and activating targeted development plans.
- You will use people analytics and business data to diagnose organizational challenges and inform priorities.
- You will lead organizational design initiatives aligned to evolving business strategies.
- You will partner closely with cross-functional HR COEs (Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Total Rewards, Analytics) to deliver integrated, business-aligned solutions that scale.
- You will drive core talent processes including succession planning, performance cycles, and leadership reviews.
- You will partner with leaders to embed a culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, innovation, and operational excellence.
What you need to succeed:- 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior-level HR business partnering
- Proven success partnering with senior leaders to strengthen effectiveness and business outcomes, including comfort providing candid feedback
- Experience leading organizational design and operating model discussions, with a strong understanding of leadership capability planning and succession depth
- Ability to apply data and insight to diagnose organizational challenges, with strong financial and operational literacy
- Comfort working with ambiguity and framing pragmatic recommendations
- Skill aligning cross-functional partners to deliver scalable talent solutions
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex people topics into clear, compelling narratives
- Experience operating in fast-paced, evolving, or newly structured organizations, with a proven ability to lead through ambiguity while maintaining alignment and momentum
- Experience supporting executive leaders in scaling or transformation environments
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or HR certification preferred
- Regular, on-site presence required at IDEXX Headquarters in Westbrook, Maine
What you can expect from us:- Salary targeting $150,000 - $170,000 USD annually, with some flexibility depending on years and depth of experience.
- Opportunity for annual cash bonus and performance-based annual merit increase
- Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
- 5% matching 401k
- Generous PTO benefits
- Additional benefits include, but are not limited to, financial support, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, and much more!
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