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HR Generalist
Theravance, South San Francisco, CA
Department: Human Resources
Reports to: Manager, HR
If interested, contact Reigin Zawadzki
Purpose of Position: Partner with HR Management to proactively lead, implement and oversee Human Resources strategy, policies and activities. Strong recruiting background required to assist hiring managers in developing recruiting strategies, sourcing and screening candidates, interviewing, and developing offer packages. Ensure compliance with company’s policies and all federal and state labor laws. Assist with administration of company’s benefit programs and company events. Additional responsibility includes HRIS maintenance. This position will partner with the HR Manager and VP to help administer and implement various human resource initiatives. Overall, this opportunity will provide a variety of human resource services that are in support of the company’s corporate goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage staffing function and oversee company relocation and immigration programs
- Manage the maintenance of the HRIS system
- Assure company’s policies are in compliance with federal and state labor laws
- Offer support in managing a variety of Human Resources initiatives and programs
- Assist in managing the benefits program, including new hire orientation
Qualifications: This position requires a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 6 years of related Human Resources experience
- Previous experience working with staffing, benefits, HRIS, and compliance is required
- Experience in the Pharmaceutical, Biotech or Health Care industry is preferred
- Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills are also required
- Must have in-depth knowledge and understanding of employment law
- Must demonstrate the ability to exercise sound judgment and to build credibility at all levels
- PeopleSoft experience is a plus
*Temporary to Permanent is also an option.
Director of Organizational Learning and Development
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Emeryville, CA
If interested, contact: Angela Barbary, PHR
Department: Organizational Learning, Development and Human Resources
Reports To: VP, Organizational Learning, Development and Human Resources
Purpose of Position: Lead and support the organizational efforts to build world class expertise by developing, delivering, and brokering appropriate solutions that address or answer complex business challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with VP, the team, and the organization to build resilience and be a learning organization
- Manage the Onyx learning program by partnering effectively with VP, the team, and the organization to assess our organization development needs and recommend solutions
- Design and/or facilitate the development of tools, processes, systems, and programs that support organizational learning and readiness.
- Learn our culture and understand our business in order to provide organization development guidance
- Facilitate learning sessions using our existing tools, programs, and processes
- Lead various Transition Integration Planning (TIP) teams in partnership with other members of our team and line management
- Partner with employee and managers to build an employee relations capability that is customer-focused, highly solutions-oriented team. Partner with managers and/or employees to assist in the resolution of employee relation issues in a timely manner. Inform and counsel managers and employees on HR policies and procedures and matters relating to employment law.
Qualifications:
- Degree or equivalent experience with 12+ years of experience demonstrating deep knowledge of organization development theory and practice with a heavy emphasis on practice to include:
- developing and delivering learning programs
- leading change initiatives and organizational readiness initiatives
- managing and developing the skills and capabilities of a diverse cross-functional team (teams); and, partnering with other managers to develop their staff
- experience in high growth and rapidly changing corporate environments highly desirable
- Ideal candidate will come from the BioPharma industry
- Ideal candidate will have fundamental knowledge of Human Resources (especially employee relations and organizational learning development/design)
- Fundamental knowledge of staffing, employee relations, and compliance
- Proven track record of success in increasingly responsible positions within HR
- Fundamental project management skills
- Excellent computer skills – Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
- Strong capability/orientation to process
- Broad knowledge of corporate functions and their inter-dependencies
- Knowledge of Employment Law
- Knowledge of the biotechnology industry/and stages of organization development
Differentiator Competencies:
- Building effective teams
- Collaborative
- Composure
- Customer-focused
- Dealing with ambiguity & paradox
- Managerial courage
- Organizational agility
- Perspective and Perseverance
- Political Savvy
- Sense of humor
- Sizing Up People
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Executive/Sr. Level Human Resources, FivePrime
San Francisco, CA
About the Position
FivePrime seeks an experienced human resources executive to lead all
HR activities with an approach that supports and enhances the
company's strategy and entrepreneurial culture. The successful
candidate will not only manage day-to-day operations, but will bring
a strategic perspective to identifying opportunities to improve
organizational effectiveness. The executive will be responsible for
supervising the Human Resources group and managing relationships with
all outside HR service providers and consultants.
Responsibilities
Organizational Effectiveness and Employee Development
• Partner with the executive team and senior management to align the
organizational structure, practices, and communication with the
company's strategy and culture
• Identify and help managers foster management practices that lead to
outstanding performance for individuals and teams
• Support managers and provide coaching, tools and assistance in
handling employee issues
• Develop an organizational plan that includes organizational
structure, job design and manpower forecasting
• Oversee recruiting, including position specifications, marketing
and communication, candidate tracking and interview training
• Create and implement programs to enhance organizational and
employee development plans including training programs, performance
management systems, reward and recognitions tools, career path and
succession planning
• Model and coach others in a communication style which fosters
openness and feedback when managing employee relations issues
HR Operations and Administration
• Oversee compensation and benefits planning to ensure market
competitiveness, adherence to budget and regulatory compliance
• Ensure business processes comply with regulatory and legal
requirements
• Evaluate, implement, and/or adapt procedures and technology
solutions to improve human resources data management
• Monitor, recommend and adapt company policies and procedures when
needed; maintain employee handbook
• Manage communications with employees to improve employee relations
Requirements
• An undergraduate degree (advanced degree preferred) and 10+ years
HR experience; biotech experience required
• Minimum two years experience as the top HR executive in a small to
mid-size company or an independent division of a large company
• Track record of providing strategic focus for HR initiatives within
an innovative environment
• Ability to identify and analyze issues and implement effective
and/or creative solutions; ability to deal with complexity and
ambiguity
• Experience working with all levels of employees, as well as
external stakeholders. Ability to facilitate group meetings with a
proven ability to manage and motivate teams
• Expertise in delivering HR programs and services. Experience in
design, development and implementation of salary administration plans
and benefits program.
• Working knowledge of federal, state (CA) and local employment, wage
and salary laws and regulations
About FivePrime
As a leader in biologics innovation, FivePrime has engineered a unique suite of technologies to comprehensively mine the entire extracellular human proteome- the complete collection of secreted
proteins and receptors- to discover therapeutic protein drugs and antibody targets. We have used these pioneering technologies to develop a pipeline of new protein and antibody therapeutics.
FivePrime began its first clinical trial of its oncology product in July 2008 with multiple patient enrollment sites. We are currently partnered with Pfizer in specific areas of oncology and diabetes, and
with Johnson & Johnson's Centocor division in osteoarthritis and pulmonary fibrosis. With operations based on San Francisco's burgeoning Mission Bay campus, FivePrime is ideally positioned in
both providing access to other academic research and biotech/pharma industry groups, and to a variety of amenities in the neighborhood.
Visit
http://www.fiveprime.com/pdfs/fiveprime_company_profile_jan_09.pdf to
review our company profile.
Visit www.fiveprime.com for more information about the company's
pipeline and therapeutic programs.
Application
Please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@fiveprime.com and reference Job Code: FPT-HR-021909
