Back to jobsThe Senior People Manager is a senior leadership role that partners closely with business leadership to shape and execute people strategies that enable commercial success across multiple U.S. sites. This role provides visible, credible People leadership—setting direction, modeling leadership behaviors, and driving organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and disciplined risk management.
As the Senior People Manager for the Polymer Solutions U.S. business, the role serves as a strategic advisor and thought partner to senior leaders and managers, influencing decisions on workforce planning, talent strategy, succession planning, and organizational design. The Senior People Manager actively coaches and challenges leaders to strengthen leadership capability, reinforce accountability, and build high‑performing, resilient teams. Acting as a trusted leader in employee relations, the role ensures consistent, fair, and legally sound decision‑making while reinforcing a culture of inclusion, engagement, and continuous improvement.
The Senior People Manager leads and owns end‑to‑end talent and leadership processes, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, merit and talent cycles, succession planning, and leadership development. The role plays a pivotal leadership role in driving and sustaining change—leading complex initiatives such as restructurings, workforce transitions, and business integrations—using data, insight, and sound judgment to guide leaders through change and measure organizational impact.
This position provides strong People governance and operational leadership by ensuring compliance with employment laws, company policies, and best practices, while continuously improving policies, processes, and HR programs aligned to business strategy. The role holds accountability for key operational areas including payroll, manpower and HR budgets, benefits administration and open enrollment, HRIS data integrity, KPI reporting, and effective collaboration with regional, global, and corporate People leadership teams.
The role requires regular travel (approximately 25%) across U.S. sites and periodic engagement with other business groups, maintaining leadership presence, consistency, and strong relationships across the organization.
