Global HR Business Lead North America

Global HR Business Lead North America

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Agfa Health Care, part of the Agfa‑Gevaert Group (Euronext Brussels: AGFB), is a global leader in Imaging IT software solutions. With a singular focus on enabling healthcare providers to manage imaging data effectively and sustainably, we are a trusted partner to healthcare professionals around the world.

From product development to implementation, our unified Enterprise Imaging Platform is purpose‑built to reduce complexity, improve productivity, and deliver clinical value. We use our proven track record as an innovator, our in‑depth medical knowledge, and our strategic guidance to help healthcare providers achieve their clinical, operational, and business strategies.

Agfa Health Care is undergoing a strategic transformation toward a SaaS‑based business model
, representing a fundamental shift in how we operate, engage talent, and build organisational capability. This transformation brings exciting opportunities for global workforce evolution – including developing future‑ready skills, driving cultural change, and enabling agile, customer‑centric teams. At the same time, it introduces HR‑specific challenges such as redefining roles, managing organisational design shifts, aligning incentives to a recurring revenue model, and supporting leaders through change.

Agfa Group is seeking a dynamic and strategic Global HR Business Leader for its Health Care IT division. This pivotal leadership role will support organisational transformation and drive performance in a key growth division of the Group. The successful candidate will partner closely with the President of Health Care IT and the Agfa executive team, shaping and enabling the division’s strategic ambitions.

As part of the Agfa Global HR Leadership Team, you will lead the global HR function for Health Care IT, driving strategic people initiatives that enable business transformation, workforce effectiveness, and organisational growth. The role ensures strong alignment of the HR strategy with business objectives through global workforce planning, talent initiatives, change management, and organisational and leadership development. You will partner closely with senior leaders to support transformational business model priorities while overseeing core HR processes such as performance management, merit & bonus processes, talent reviews, succession planning, senior‑leader recruitment, and employee engagement strategies.

• Advocate for business requirements within the global HR function and drive consistency on global policies, programs, and systems.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the President of Health Care IT and senior management, aligning HR initiatives with business objectives and providing guidance on organisational design and employee development.
• Partner closely with leadership to facilitate the SaaS Business model transition, ensuring alignment of people, organisation and process.
• Lead the full HR cycle for the division, including merit and bonus processes, performance management and calibrations, talent and succession planning, employee engagement, organisational design, and recruitment of senior positions.
• Lead and manage global HR projects with cross‑functional teams, applying strong project management methodology and stakeholder engagement.
• Design and implement organisational development strategies to support high performance, agility and scalability.
• Facilitate leadership sessions, team effectiveness workshops and transformation programmes to drive engagement and alignment.
• Lead change‑management efforts to support organisational restructuring, process redesign and system implementations globally.
• Analyse workforce data and trends to guide strategic workforce planning and talent initiatives.
• Drive employee engagement strategies that align with a global and culturally diverse workforce, including conducting surveys and providing actionable insights.
• Collaborate across the HR matrix organisation to align divisional objectives with Group‑wide HR…