Sr Director HR Transformation

Sr Director – HR Transformation

As a Sr Director – HR Transformation here at Honeywell, you will lead the strategic transformation initiatives within the HR function, driving innovative practices that enhance organizational effectiveness.

You will report directly to our Vice President of HR Strategy & Transformation and you’ll work out of our Phoenix, AZ location on a Hybrid work schedule.

Honeywell Aerospace is building the future of HR to match the future of work — and this role is at the center of that transformation. You will architect and drive enterprise initiatives that modernize how we plan, invest in, and optimize our workforce — translating strategy into repeatable operating mechanisms, data-driven insights, and measurable business outcomes.

You will be accountable for shaping and enabling the “people and culture” dimensions of the evolving Aerospace Operating System as we become a standalone publicly traded company, ensuring leaders have clear visibility to workforce drivers (skills, census, labor costs) and the actions required to deliver growth. This includes strengthening the strategic capability of HR partners and delivering HR initiatives directly and through cross‑functional project teams.

• Design and execute HR transformation strategies aligned to Aerospace business priorities and the future Aerospace Operating System (people/culture dimension).
• Identify where to standardize, automate, digitize, or redesign HR work to increase speed, quality, and leader experience.
• Lead/enable a strategic workforce planning approach that aligns workforce capabilities (skills, census, OEF targets) to business goals over a multi‑year horizon.
• Translate workforce gaps into actionable “build/borrow/buy (and automate)” talent strategies and workforce shaping plans. Architect advanced analytics and AI‑driven forecasting to model workforce supply/demand, skills adjacencies, labor cost scenarios, and productivity tradeoffs over a multi‑year horizon.
• Ensure workforce planning connects to annual operating planning, including baseline assumptions and forecast cycles.
• Build mechanisms that improve visibility, consistency, and decision quality in how leaders manage workforce cost and productivity investments.
• Produce executive‑ready workforce insights: what’s changing, why it matters, what decisions are required, and what actions will be taken.
• Harness AI and advanced analytics to elevate workforce “storyboards,” enabling leaders to quickly understand what is changing, why it matters, and which decisions are required.
• Build repeatable methods, toolkits, and coaching that improve HR partner proficiency in workforce planning, talent investment tradeoffs, and operating cadence discipline.
• Help strengthen HR program management capability and connected learning strategies where needed.
• Lead major HR innovation and transformation initiatives end‑to‑end (concept → design → rollout → adoption → sustainment).
• Indirectly manage cross‑functional project teams; define scope, milestones, change approach, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish governance and “management operating system” elements (MOS/KPIs/roles/training/sustainment) for initiatives.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to identify opportunities for HR innovation and process improvement.

• Aerospace senior HR leadership team (business and functional)
• Finance (labor cost, productivity, forecasting alignment)
• HR COEs and HR partners across regions/businesses
• Digital/HRS/HCM teams and analytics/storyboard owners

• Operate as a high‑accountability individual contributor who drives alignment, momentum, and outcomes through peers and senior stakeholders.
• Communicate crisply and courageously; challenge assumptions; push for decisions; and convert ambiguity into clear plans.
• Indirectly lead peers, stakeholders, and across multiple levels and functions.

• 12 plus years of experience in HR strategy and transformation, preferably in a aerospace & defense environment.
• Strong understanding of organizational design and change management principles.
• Proven track record of leading large‑scale human capital…