Director, HR Operational Excellence and Compliance

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Director, HR Operational Excellence and Compliance

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Director, Human Resources Operational Excellence and Compliance are to:

The Director, HR Operational Excellence and Compliance will lead North America-wide governance, execution, and modernization across critical HR compliance, immigration, onboarding, and other Talent Acquisition compliance processes. The role strengthens Bayer's License to Operate by ensuring disciplined execution while building a more scalable operating model that uses clear ownership, AI agents, automation, knowledge management, external partners, and fit-for-purpose outsourcing models.

This leader will be expected to move beyond issue management and become the organizing force for a future-state North America support model, including progressive evolution of Canadian support, stronger TA compliance and onboarding controls, improved service expectations, and practical deployment of AI-enabled support that reduces manual work while preserving compliance, privacy, and employee trust.

• Lead North America-wide HR compliance governance across U.S. and Canadian support structures, with accountability for execution, risk visibility, and sustainable operating discipline;
• Oversee critical compliance domains including ERISA governance, regulatory body interactions, SOP and Internal Control System expectations, audit readiness, I-9 management, reasonable accommodations, HR investigations, immigration, talent mobility, and TA/onboarding compliance controls;
• Establish governance forums and decision frameworks that clarify accountability across HR, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, Benefits, Legal, Finance, Tax, Operations, Digital, and external partner interfaces;
• Strengthen preventive and detective controls across federal, state, provincial, and local requirements, ensuring that compliance work is documented, assigned, measurable, and resilient;
• Serve as a trusted advisor during internal and external audits and help establish consistent audit response frameworks;
• Identify control gaps, process fragmentation, ownership ambiguity, and single points of failure; drive sustainable remediation plans.
• Own delivery of priority initiatives while organizing the team, routines, escalation paths, documentation, and decision rights needed to support ongoing compliance enablement work at scale;
• Design a future-state resource model that blends core internal expertise, AI-enabled agents, workflow tools, shared services, external vendors, and outsourcing support where appropriate;
• Improve service quality and scalability through clear SLAs, intake standards, change control, governance routines, and vendor/partner accountability, including Ruveon-related change control expectations;
• Lead progressive evolution of Canadian support to ensure the North America model is integrated where appropriate while respecting country-specific compliance, employment, privacy, and operational differences;
• Strengthen documentation standards, knowledge management practices, and…