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Senior level associate vice president human resources jobs place experienced HR leaders in charge of enterprise-wide people strategy, workforce planning, and the teams that drive organizational performance. Openings are concentrated across Science & Research, Consulting & Professional Services, and Manufacturing, with a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings, and employers like Moody's, Flagship Pioneering, and Sysco hiring at this level now.
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Job Summary: The VP, Human Resources is a strategic leader responsible for shaping and executing global people strategies that enable organizational growth and innovation. This role oversees all aspects of HR, including policy development, compliance with international employment legislation, and talent management across multiple geographies. Acting as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, the VP, Human Resources drives workforce planning, culture initiatives, and employee engagement while ensuring operational excellence in HR systems and processes. Additionally, the position leads global HR teams and partners with business leaders to align talent strategies with business objectives or organizational aspirations.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and Execute Global People Strategy
- Define and implement a comprehensive HR strategy that aligns with the company’s growth objectives and SaaS business model.
- Partner with executive leadership to shape organizational design, workforce planning, and succession strategies for critical roles.
- Ensure HR initiatives support scalability, innovation, and global expansion.
Drive Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning
- Lead global recruitment strategies to attract top-tier technology and SaaS talent.
- Implement data-driven workforce planning to anticipate future skill needs and maintain agility in a rapidly evolving market.
- Build employer branding initiatives to position the organization as a destination for high-performing talent.
Foster Culture and Employee Experience
- Champion a high-performance, inclusive culture that reflects company values.
- Design and oversee programs that enhance employee engagement, well-being, and retention across global teams.
- Serve as a cultural ambassador, ensuring alignment between leadership behaviors and organizational values.
Lead Learning, Development, and Leadership Capability
- Supplement Fortive global learning frameworks to upskill employees and prepare future leaders for SaaS-specific challenges.
- Ensure performance management systems that enable continuous feedback and career growth.
- Drive leadership development programs to strengthen executive and managerial capabilities for Provation.
Ensure Compliance and Risk Management
- Maintain compliance with international labor laws, data privacy regulations, and employment standards across all regions.
- Establish governance frameworks and policies to mitigate legal, financial, and reputational risks.
- Partner with legal counsel on complex employment matters and regulatory changes.
People Leadership:
- Establishes a culture of high standards, rigor, and operational excellence.
- Coach, mentor, and manage performance to foster individual growth and accountability, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent by building strong capabilities and creating clear career development pathways/providing opportunities for continuous learning and advancement.
- Cultivate a high-performing culture that promotes engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
- Drives continuous improvement through experimentation, learning agility, going to Gemba and leveraging Fortive Business Systems (FBS) tools.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 15+ years relevant experience, with significant tenure in leadership roles.
Other Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
- Global Expertise: Proven ability to manage HR operations across multiple geographies, ensuring compliance with international labor laws and data privacy regulations.
- Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated success in developing and executing global people strategies that drive scalability, innovation, and cultural alignment.
- Culture & Change Leadership: Track record of fostering inclusive, high-performance cultures and leading organizational transformation initiatives.
- Collaboration & Influence: Exceptional ability to build strong partnerships with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to align HR strategies with business objectives.
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of business models, financial drivers, and the ability to align talent strategies with organizational growth and profitability.
- Executive Communication: Ability to influence at senior level and present complex strategies clearly.
- Ability to travel 30% required.
Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level
Scaling & Aligning
- Customer Obsessed: Starts with the customer’s needs and make decisions with their perspective in mind.
- Strategic: Uses data-driven insights to influence and shape strategies that advance organizational priorities across multiple functions.
- Innovation for Impact: Inspires breakthrough solutions by nurturing ideas through experimentation and embracing diverse perspectives.
- Inspiring: Communicates a compelling vision that energizes and motivates others.
- Builds Extraordinary Teams: Creates a unified leadership group that drives organizational success.
- Courageous: Takes decisive action and tackles tough issues head-on.
- Delivers Results: Leads with high standards and urgency, driving values-based execution for quality, timely, and sustainable results.
- Adaptable: Maintains rigor while continuously experimenting and learning.
- Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba - Observes real-world processes at the source and embraces FBS principles through kaizen, coaching, and leveraging expertise to solve challenges.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.
We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Provation
Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions for clinical productivity, care coordination, quality reporting, and billing. Our purpose is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. Provation’s comprehensive portfolio spans the entire patient encounter, from pre-procedure through post-procedure, with solutions for physician and nursing documentation (Provation® MD, Provation® Apex, MD-Reports, Provation® endoPRO®, and Provation® MultiCaregiver), anesthesia documentation (#1 Best in KLAS Provation® iPro), patient engagement, surgical care coordination, quality reporting, and billing capture (Provation® SurgicalValet™), order set and care plan management (Provation® Order Set Advisor™ and Provation® Care Plans), and EHR embedded clinical documentation (Provation® Clinic Note). Provation has a loyal customer base, serving more than 5,000 hospitals, surgery centers, and medical offices, and 700 physician groups globally, including 19 of the top 20 U.S. hospitals. In 2021, Provation was acquired by Fortive Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company that builds essential technology and accelerates transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, engineering, and healthcare. Our purpose at Provation is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. To deliver on this commitment, we’re guided by our core values – Provation has a culture of CARES: Community - We have a shared sense of improving healthcare, enriching the broader world we live in and serve. Accountability - We own it and get it done with integrity. Respect - We build diverse teams that collaborate and communicate with positive intent and trust. Excellence - We welcome new ideas as we innovate quality solutions. Service - We are passionate about putting customers first.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
Pay Range
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 211,200.00 - 392,800.00.
Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
Job Summary: The VP, Human Resources is a strategic leader responsible for shaping and executing global people strategies that enable organizational growth and innovation. This role oversees all aspects of HR, including policy development, compliance with international employment legislation, and talent management across multiple geographies. Acting as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, the VP, Human Resources drives workforce planning, culture initiatives, and employee engagement while ensuring operational excellence in HR systems and processes. Additionally, the position leads global HR teams and partners with business leaders to align talent strategies with business objectives or organizational aspirations.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and Execute Global People Strategy
- Define and implement a comprehensive HR strategy that aligns with the company’s growth objectives and SaaS business model.
- Partner with executive leadership to shape organizational design, workforce planning, and succession strategies for critical roles.
- Ensure HR initiatives support scalability, innovation, and global expansion.
Drive Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning
- Lead global recruitment strategies to attract top-tier technology and SaaS talent.
- Implement data-driven workforce planning to anticipate future skill needs and maintain agility in a rapidly evolving market.
- Build employer branding initiatives to position the organization as a destination for high-performing talent.
Foster Culture and Employee Experience
- Champion a high-performance, inclusive culture that reflects company values.
- Design and oversee programs that enhance employee engagement, well-being, and retention across global teams.
- Serve as a cultural ambassador, ensuring alignment between leadership behaviors and organizational values.
Lead Learning, Development, and Leadership Capability
- Supplement Fortive global learning frameworks to upskill employees and prepare future leaders for SaaS-specific challenges.
- Ensure performance management systems that enable continuous feedback and career growth.
- Drive leadership development programs to strengthen executive and managerial capabilities for Provation.
Ensure Compliance and Risk Management
- Maintain compliance with international labor laws, data privacy regulations, and employment standards across all regions.
- Establish governance frameworks and policies to mitigate legal, financial, and reputational risks.
- Partner with legal counsel on complex employment matters and regulatory changes.
People Leadership:
- Establishes a culture of high standards, rigor, and operational excellence.
- Coach, mentor, and manage performance to foster individual growth and accountability, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent by building strong capabilities and creating clear career development pathways/providing opportunities for continuous learning and advancement.
- Cultivate a high-performing culture that promotes engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
- Drives continuous improvement through experimentation, learning agility, going to Gemba and leveraging Fortive Business Systems (FBS) tools.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- 15+ years relevant experience, with significant tenure in leadership roles.
Other Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
- Global Expertise: Proven ability to manage HR operations across multiple geographies, ensuring compliance with international labor laws and data privacy regulations.
- Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated success in developing and executing global people strategies that drive scalability, innovation, and cultural alignment.
- Culture & Change Leadership: Track record of fostering inclusive, high-performance cultures and leading organizational transformation initiatives.
- Collaboration & Influence: Exceptional ability to build strong partnerships with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to align HR strategies with business objectives.
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of business models, financial drivers, and the ability to align talent strategies with organizational growth and profitability.
- Executive Communication: Ability to influence at senior level and present complex strategies clearly.
- Ability to travel 30% required.
Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level
Scaling & Aligning
- Customer Obsessed: Starts with the customer’s needs and make decisions with their perspective in mind.
- Strategic: Uses data-driven insights to influence and shape strategies that advance organizational priorities across multiple functions.
- Innovation for Impact: Inspires breakthrough solutions by nurturing ideas through experimentation and embracing diverse perspectives.
- Inspiring: Communicates a compelling vision that energizes and motivates others.
- Builds Extraordinary Teams: Creates a unified leadership group that drives organizational success.
- Courageous: Takes decisive action and tackles tough issues head-on.
- Delivers Results: Leads with high standards and urgency, driving values-based execution for quality, timely, and sustainable results.
- Adaptable: Maintains rigor while continuously experimenting and learning.
- Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba - Observes real-world processes at the source and embraces FBS principles through kaizen, coaching, and leveraging expertise to solve challenges.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care.
We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We're honest about what's working and what isn't, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About Provation
Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions for clinical productivity, care coordination, quality reporting, and billing. Our purpose is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. Provation’s comprehensive portfolio spans the entire patient encounter, from pre-procedure through post-procedure, with solutions for physician and nursing documentation (Provation® MD, Provation® Apex, MD-Reports, Provation® endoPRO®, and Provation® MultiCaregiver), anesthesia documentation (#1 Best in KLAS Provation® iPro), patient engagement, surgical care coordination, quality reporting, and billing capture (Provation® SurgicalValet™), order set and care plan management (Provation® Order Set Advisor™ and Provation® Care Plans), and EHR embedded clinical documentation (Provation® Clinic Note). Provation has a loyal customer base, serving more than 5,000 hospitals, surgery centers, and medical offices, and 700 physician groups globally, including 19 of the top 20 U.S. hospitals. In 2021, Provation was acquired by Fortive Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company that builds essential technology and accelerates transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, engineering, and healthcare. Our purpose at Provation is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. To deliver on this commitment, we’re guided by our core values – Provation has a culture of CARES: Community - We have a shared sense of improving healthcare, enriching the broader world we live in and serve. Accountability - We own it and get it done with integrity. Respect - We build diverse teams that collaborate and communicate with positive intent and trust. Excellence - We welcome new ideas as we innovate quality solutions. Service - We are passionate about putting customers first.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
Pay Range
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 211,200.00 - 392,800.00.
Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
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Senior Level Associate Vice President Human Resources Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level associate vice president human resources job?
Candidates who land these roles typically bring deep expertise in areas like talent acquisition, compensation design, labor relations, or HR business partnering, combined with a record of leading cross-functional initiatives at scale. Employers at this level look for someone who can influence executive stakeholders, translate business goals into people strategy, and develop the HR professionals under them. An advanced degree or SHRM-SCP certification strengthens your candidacy considerably.
Which companies hire senior level associate vice president human resourcess?
Companies hiring senior level associate vice president human resourcess right now include Moody's, Flagship Pioneering, and Sysco, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring tends to come from large enterprises, regional health systems, financial institutions, and high-growth technology companies that need seasoned HR leadership to manage complex, multi-site workforces.
Are there remote senior level associate vice president human resources jobs?
Yes, though many roles at this level still require some on-site presence given their strategic and leadership scope. About 9% of senior level associate vice president human resources openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting broader flexibility trends in corporate HR leadership. Hybrid arrangements, where you anchor at headquarters periodically, are especially common at large employers with distributed workforces.
What makes a associate vice president human resources role senior level?
Senior level associate vice president human resources roles are defined by enterprise scope, not just functional expertise. You own workforce strategy across business units, make decisions that affect hundreds or thousands of employees, and present directly to C-suite and board-level stakeholders. You are also expected to mentor HR managers and directors, build team capability, and lead programs like organizational redesign, executive compensation review, or large-scale change management.
Which industries hire the most senior level associate vice president human resourcess?
Senior Level associate vice president human resources roles concentrate in Science & Research, Consulting & Professional Services, and Manufacturing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors tend to drive hiring at this level because they operate large, regulated workforces where sophisticated people strategy, compliance expertise, and executive HR partnership are core business requirements rather than support functions.