HR Director, Operations

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As IDEX grows and scale, our HR function is evolving to ensure we can meet the business needs with speed, consistency and a focus on enterprise-wide impact. The Director HR Operations and Program Management plays a central role in this evolution – bringing together strategic HR business partnership and operational discipline to move critical HR initiatives forward and connect the dots across the function.

This role will serve as a thought partner and program leader within HR – connecting HR functions to support clarity and progress on enterprise-wide initiatives and helping functional leaders translate their strategies into movement. This role brings together strong HR business partnership capability with the disciplined program execution to ensure we build both practical and scalable solutions.

This leader will work closely with HR Leadership and functional peers to support alignment, execution and integrated decision making across HR. They will provide thought partnership to functional HR leaders while helping shape and guide how our foundational processes, systems and structures scale with the business.

This role is a highly engaged HR leader who can anticipate what’s needed and see around corners, structure and guide execution and elevate how we work as a function all while fostering shared ownership across key stakeholders or groups.

Why This Role Matters

IDEX HR must scale with the business through reducing complexity and clear focus. This role will help strengthen and connect initiatives across corporate HR, creating clarity on what matters most, and ensuring initiatives are led in a way that is practical, aligned and grounded in execution.

By helping corporate HR leaders move functional objectives into functional initiatives, this role will enable HR to lead with focus and deliver value at speed.

• Partner with functional HR leaders to shape and move forward their move critical strategic priorities – especially initiatives that have enterprise-wide implications or cross-functional complexity.

• An intentional, elevated rhythm of collaboration, planning and communication across corporate HR that leads to systematic HR initiative enablement

• Visible traction towards a forward looking plan that connects HR systems, processes and compliance needs into one view

• Provide steady program oversight on high-priority initiatives without pulling ownership away from functional leaders, rather being a trusted thought-partner to guide phasing, decision making and key stakeholder engagement.

Strategic HR Partnership and Enablement

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to corporate HR and other functional leaders, helping them connect their priorities into a more integrated, enterprise-wide HR system.

• Act as an internal integrator-identifying connections across HR initiatives and guiding leaders to align efforts, decision points and execution.

• Support the VP, HR and other HR leaders by anticipating future needs, surfacing critical handoffs and helping teams make sense of interdependencies before they become bottlenecks

• Bring a system thinking lens to HR initiatives helping translate individual work streams into a cohesive roadmap that enables scale, consistency and strategic value.

• Elevate alignment and execution across corporate HR by simplifying complexity and ensuring our growth focused evolution stays coordinated and practical.

Program Management for Enterprise Initiatives

• Build and maintain practical, aligned roadmaps with functional owners – support prioritization, phasing and visible progress

• Understand and surface dependencies, risks and execution…