# Director, HR Operational Excellence and Compliance

**Company**: Enabling Functions
**Location**: Whippany, New Jersey
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $144,640 to $216,960
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

At Bayer, we're visionaries driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and strive for a world where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is a reality.

**Job Summary:** The Director, HR Operational Excellence and Compliance will lead North America-wide governance, execution, and modernization of critical HR compliance, immigration, onboarding, and other Talent Acquisition compliance processes.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead North America-wide HR compliance governance across U.S. and Canadian support structures

- Oversee critical compliance domains, including ERISA governance, regulatory body interactions, and audit readiness

- Establish governance forums and decision frameworks to 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

- Serve as a trusted advisor during internal and external audits

- 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

- Design a future-state resource model that blends core internal expertise, AI-enabled agents, workflow tools, shared services, external vendors, and outsourcing support

- Lead practical deployment of AI agents, automation, workflow technology, analytics, and knowledge tools to improve compliance execution, employee support, and operational decision-making

- Partner with functional owners to transition selected operational activities into Payroll and Benefits

**Requirements:**

- Significant progressive leadership experience in HR Compliance, HR Operations, Talent Acquisition Operations, Immigration/Talent Mobility, Payroll, Benefits, Risk Management, Governance, Operational Excellence, or related disciplines

- Demonstrated success leading director-level operating model transformation, cross-functional governance, resource model design, outsourcing/vendor strategy, and execution of complex enterprise initiatives

- Strong understanding of U.S. HR compliance requirements and governance frameworks; ability to learn and navigate cross-border U.S./Canada implications

- Working knowledge of ERISA/DOL governance, pension and savings plan oversight, Form 5500 processes, SPD controls, employment tax interfaces, I-9 governance, and regulatory audit management

- Experience partnering with Legal, Audit, Tax, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, HR Operations, and external advisors

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking capabilities; excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills

**Benefits:**

- Health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

**Salary:**

- $144,640 to $216,960 per year

## Skills

### Required
- HR Compliance
- HR Operations
- Talent Acquisition Operations
- Immigration/Talent Mobility
- Payroll
- Benefits
- Risk Management
- Governance
- Operational Excellence

### Nice to have
- Workday
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- Process Management
- Design Thinking
- automation
- workflow tools
- analytics
- AI-enabled solutions
- digital process improvements

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