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Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Human Resources Business Partner to provide strategic HR partnership to senior Commercial leaders, with a focus on supporting Sales and field-based commercial teams across the US and Canada. This senior individual contributor role will partner closely with the VP, HR for Sales and senior business leaders, including executive-level stakeholders, to shape talent strategy, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and support business performance. The role requires strong corporate HR experience, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate with influence in a complex, matrixed environment.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with the VP, HR for Sales and senior Commercial leaders to align people strategies with business priorities, growth objectives, and workforce needs.
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leadership teams, providing strategic guidance on talent, organization design, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning, and change leadership.
Support HR strategy and execution for Sales and field-based commercial teams, ensuring people plans reflect the needs of distributed, customer-facing organizations.
Lead and support talent review, succession planning, leadership development, and high-potential identification processes, using data and insights to strengthen organizational capability.
Advise leaders on organizational change initiatives, including restructuring, operating model changes, productivity reviews, team effectiveness interventions, and change adoption planning.
Provide guidance on performance management, policy interpretation, employee relations, investigations, and workplace concerns, supporting consistent and compliant application of company policies and employment practices.
Use workforce analytics, talent metrics, and business data to identify trends, evaluate organizational health, and recommend practical actions that improve leader and employee experience.
Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence, People Operations, Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated HR solutions that support business outcomes.
Coach leaders on effective communication, inclusive leadership, employee engagement, accountability, and team performance.
Contribute to continuous improvement of HR processes, tools, and practices to enhance efficiency, consistency, and impact across the Commercial organization.
Essential Requirements
Significant progressive Human Resources experience, including substantial experience in a senior HR Business Partner role within a corporate environment.
Demonstrated experience supporting Sales, Commercial, field-based, customer-facing, or revenue-generating teams.
Experience providing HR partnership to executive-level and senior leadership stakeholders, including the ability to influence, advise, and challenge leaders constructively.
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to understand business drivers, translate priorities into people strategies, and connect HR initiatives to measurable business outcomes.
Proven experience operating in complex, matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and cross-functional decision-making.
Strong capability in organizational design, workforce planning, talent reviews, succession planning, leadership effectiveness, employee relations, and performance management.
Experience supporting organizational change, including restructuring, change communication, stakeholder alignment, and adoption planning.
Strong employee relations judgment, including experience advising on workplace issues, policy application, investigations, and risk-aware decision-making.
Excellent consulting, coaching, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility and trust at all levels.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret workforce data, identify trends, and convert insights into actionable recommendations.
Ability to balance strategic influence with hands-on execution in a senior individual contributor capacity.
Clear, effective communication skills, including the ability to present complex information to senior leaders in a concise and practical way.
Demonstrated commitment to inclusive leadership practices and fair, consistent employment processes.
Desirable Requirements
Experience supporting Commercial or Sales teams in food safety, life sciences, diagnostics, manufacturing, industrial, technology, healthcare, or other regulated or technical industries.
Experience partnering with global or multinational teams, including exposure to cross-border HR practices and geographically dispersed workforces.
Experience supporting large-scale sales transformations, go-to-market changes, territory redesign, or commercial effectiveness initiatives.
Experience working with HR Centers of Excellence to deploy enterprise talent, rewards, learning, engagement, or workforce planning programs.
Familiarity with HR systems, workforce dashboards, engagement platforms, or people analytics tools.
Advanced degree or professional HR certification, such as SHRM-SCP, SHRM-CP, SPHR, PHR, or equivalent.
What We Offer
A senior, high-impact HR business partnering role with direct exposure to Commercial and HR leadership.
The opportunity to shape talent strategy, leadership effectiveness, and organizational capability across a key business area.
A collaborative, matrixed environment where strategic thinking, operational excellence, and continuous improvement are valued.
The opportunity to partner with experienced HR and business leaders on meaningful workforce and organizational initiatives.
A standard benefits package.
An inclusive recruitment process that welcomes candidates with a range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Come Be Part Of A Mission that Matters!From inside the farm gate to our dinner plates, Neogen protects the world’s food supply. Through a variety of animal healthcare products, to food safety solutions for dangerous bacteria, allergens, toxins, drug residues and much more, Neogen is there — and you can be too.
Neogen Corporation is a company that operates across manufacturing, distribution, and business-to-business sectors, serving customers with a range of products and services. The company maintains internal operations including order management, inventory, shipping, and customer account services. Neogen employs a CRM and Solomon system infrastructure to manage customer relationships and order processing. The company is committed to employee engagement and customer service excellence, fostering a workplace culture where employees believe in their work and are dedicated to serving customers effectively.
