Senior Human Resources Manager

At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.

Your role

Are you a hands-on HR manager who also thinks strategically?

At Siegfried’s Grafton site, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of our workforce while staying closely connected to day-to-day operations. You will be able to influence the future of the organization by hiring key talent and ensuring employee development, while providing a strong HR Operations management.

Siegfried's Acceleration Hub is the latest addition to the Siegfried network. Located in Grafton (WI), we provide comprehensive support to customers from early phase pre-clinical and clinical development, through scale up and validation, up to and including commercial manufacturing of Drug Substances.

As Senior Human Resources Manager, you’ll be the HR business partner to the site leadership team, reporting directly to the General Manager and overseeing all aspects of human resources—with one direct report and strong cross-functional influence. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on both executing the details and shaping the bigger picture.

Your Tasks

You will lead all core HR activities while actively partnering with leadership and employees to further develop a high-performing culture. Your responsibilities will include:

Manage end-to-end HR operations including employee relations, benefits administration, payroll, 401(k) administration, leave administration, manager annual compensation processes, and compliance with labor laws and company policies
Serve as a trusted advisor to site leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, and talent strategy
Own the talent acquisition lifecycle and ensure seamless onboarding and retention practices that fit the site's unique culture
Implement and maintain development programs, succession planning, and site-wide training initiatives.
Ensure accuracy and efficiency in HR systems (Workday/SAP), reporting, and site-level metrics.
Collaborate with Corporate HR on initiatives involving headcount planning, job grading, salary bands, and global programs
Represent the site in community relations, security coordination, and internal projects while championing Siegfried's Code of Conduct.

Your profile

You are equal parts doer and thinker—comfortable operating at a strategic level while staying grounded in the everyday needs of the business. Here's what we're looking for:

Degree in Human Resources or Organizational Management
5-7 years of broad HR experience, with a track record of both strategic HR leadership and hands-on execution
Background in manufacturing or a 24/7 operation, ideally within a regulated environment like pharma, food, or medical devices
Detail oriented- must be able to work with a multitude of manual HR systems/processes to research issues, determine cause and provide remedy.
Hands-on working manager who can "roll up their sleeves" to bring programs to fruition.
Change Management oriented to ensure programs are well implemented and well understood throughout the employee group.
Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and influence across all levels of the organization
Strong problem-solving ability, sound judgment, and a flexible, service-oriented mindset
A self-starter who thrives in a lean team environment and embraces a culture of continuous improvement

Working at Siegfried

Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.

Who we are

In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe

The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model.

The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production.

We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.

Why joining Siegfried in Grafton?

Employee Share Program
401(k) Match
Medical, Dental, and Vision (competitive cost share)
Life, Sickness and Accident insurance, and Long-term disability
Paid time off and holidays
Enhanced parental leave, an additional 6 weeks for either parent above medical disability
Buy up Life Insurance (optional)

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