Vice-President, HR Transformation

About Us

Crane NXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. The company pioneered advanced, proprietary micro-optics technology for securing physical products. It's sophisticated electronic equipment and associated software leverage proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies.

Position Location: Commutable (within 1 flight) to Philadelphia, Waltham, or Stamford

Overview:

The Vice President, Head of HR Transformation will lead the strategic evolution of the HR function, positioning it as a driver of business value and operational excellence. This role is accountable for scaling HR to meet the needs of a growing organization by optimizing processes, systems, and service delivery. The transformation agenda spans end-to-end HR capabilities, ensuring alignment with business priorities, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and delivering efficiency at scale. Success in this role requires a visionary leader with deep HR expertise, strong change management skills, and the ability to translate strategy into actionable outcomes.-

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the global HR transformation strategy in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive, multi-year transformation roadmap, including process redesign, technology implementation, capabilities, operating model, and change management.
• Support building a capability map; determining what is core and differentiated; and develop plans to build accordingly.
• Drive organizational change initiatives to support the adoption of new HR practices and tools.
• Foster a culture of agility, innovation, and continuous improvement within HR and across the business.
• Collaborate with senior HR and business leaders to ensure alignment and buy-in.
• Lead team; direct and indirect. Foster strong partnerships with HR peers and talents across the function. Design and lead initiatives across the enterprise; inspiring followership, collaboration, and ownership for our transformation.
• Play a lead role in support of successfully integrating businesses we acquire.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field; Advanced degree preferred.
• 15-20 years of progressive experience HR Leadership roles; with proven experience leading large-scale HR transformation initiatives, ideally in a multinational and business decentralized environment.
• Experience with M&A; integration leadership and deployment.
• Experience leading at least one other area of HR capability; including Talent, HR business partnership, people operations.
• Strong business acumen; aligns people strategies to business strategies and priorities.
• Deep understanding of HR operations, systems, and global compliance requirements. Strong project and change management skills, with experience in vendor selection and system implementation.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills. Can effectively communicate and work with C-suite leaders.
• Collaborative leadership approach; creates followership while invoking change.
• Bachelors, Business Administration, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

Crane NXT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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