Senior HR Partner - Global IT

Senior HR Partner, Global IT

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

We're hiring a Senior HR Partner, Global IT to support a large, global technology organization (Global Information Services) at the core of our enterprise digital, data, and infrastructure capabilities. In this role, you'll partner closely with GIS leadership to drive organizational design, talent strategy, and culture across technology, cybersecurity, and data, translating business priorities into scalable, high impact people solutions. A key focus will be building and embedding a strong talent mindset, elevating how leaders assess, develop, and deploy talent to fuel growth, strengthen leadership pipelines, and enable the organization to scale effectively. You'll operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping shape organizational effectiveness in a complex, fast paced environment.

Ready to step into a role where you can influence leaders, shape talent outcomes, and have a direct impact on how a global organization grows and scales? You'll join a highly collaborative HR team that is deeply connected to the business, with shared ownership, strong partnership, and real opportunity to drive meaningful impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively shape HR BU/Function strategies and priorities to align to business strategy and evolving needs to help shape the appropriate culture
• Diagnose and provide appropriate interventions to optimize business performance to execute against strategy goals generally at the BU/Function leadership level
• Balance enterprise-wide and business unit specific needs with local requirements
• Conduct organizational and talent assessments; develop talent strategy and pipeline to staff and build workforce capability, including selection, assessment, development, and succession
• Design and implement change management, communication and engagement strategies within the BU/Function
• Actively partner, coach and develop executive leadership and management, including coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions, and performance management
• Effectively leverage and partner with COE and HR Operations in the delivery of initiatives to deliver the HR strategy for BU/Function while balancing enterprise-wide and business unit specific needs
• Leverage tools and systems such as Workforce Dashboard and Workday to perform analytics in support of business strategy
• Participate in M&A and divestiture diligence and integration activities from the HR perspective; partner with core teams and regional HR to integrate acquisitions
• Participate in at least one HR initiative annually at segment, enterprise and/or regional levels

Functional Knowledge

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field
• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues and recommends product, process, or service improvements

Leadership

• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

Problem Solving

• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Impact

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for programs, projects or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

Apply today and help shape how a global organization builds, develops, and scales its talent.

Time Type: Full time

Employee Type: Assignee / Regular

Travel: Yes, 20% of the Time

Relocation Eligible: No

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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