Director, Global HR & Americas

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The RoleAs part of Emerson and within the Aspen Technology (AspenTech) business Unit, the Director Global HR and Americas will lead global HR initiatives across the function and the People Experience Partnership team for the Americas. This role is based in AspenTech’s global headquarters in Bedford, MA and will drive high impact HR processes and programs for the AspenTech business unit globally while also directly leading a team of HR professionals across the Americas to ensure alignment of HR practices with organizational goals.
The Director Global HR and Americas is ambitious, exercises sound judgement while bringing clarity to complex situations and comfortably leads teams both directly and indirectly. This role will create outsized impact through collaborative leadership that builds trust and influence across all levels of the organization in a dynamic environment where business acumen is valued.

Your Impact

Americas People Experience

• Lead, manage, engage, and develop the Americas People Experience Partners team responsible for delivering employee relations, people manager enablement, critical employee lifecycle moments that matter, and ethics / compliance.
• Act as the point of escalation and decision-making on complex employee relations matters, investigations, and ethics complaints for the Americas (in partnership with Legal when needed).
• Lead regional people manager development, engagement, and enablement programs, initiatives and processes such as performance management, talent reviews, and organizational planning.
• Drive process improvements region-wide ensuring leadership alignment and effective communications.

• Ensure consistent application of HR policies and procedures across all sites.

Global Human Resources

• Lead strategically important HR initiatives, processes, and programs that require significant collaboration and coordination across the Global Business Partners, World Areas, Centers of Excellence (COEs) and People Services.
• Lead Aspen Technology’s global safety program in collaboration with the Control Systems and Software business group and Emerson’s global safety COE.
• Lead critical aspects of Aspen Technology’s onboarding and integration with Emerson.
• Execute organizational change initiatives that require significant cross-functional collaboration and coordination.
• Coordinate Aspen Technology’s global Site Leader team and related initiatives.
• Identify and implement improvements to HR processes to increase efficiency.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive HR experience in employee relations and enablement, including leadership or managerial responsibilities.
• Strong communication, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience working within a matrix environment.
• Prior experience in a high-growth, fast-paced software environment preferred.
• Experience in managing employee relations and HR compliance preferred.
• Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese would be beneficial preferred.

Work Authorization

AspenTech will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

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The salary range for this role is $178,500.00 - $218,100.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.