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The company supports the Irish healthcare sector with a broad portfolio spanning diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. Today, Abbott employs more than 6,500 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.\nAbout Abbott\nAbbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.\nAbbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny\nAbbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture Freestyle blood glucose test strips and Freestyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. 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with sound judgement, credibility, and fairness.\nExperience building positive employee relations climates while effectively managing organizational risk.\nOrganization Design & Change Leadership\nProven experience supporting organizational design, team effectiveness, restructures, workforce planning, and change initiatives.\nAbility to assess organizational capability and recommend solutions that improve performance and accountability.\nStrong change management capability with the ability to coach leaders through ambiguity and transformation.\nLeadership Development & Coaching\nA highly skilled coach who develops leadership capability through challenge, support, and insight.\nExperience supporting leaders through performance management, talent development, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness initiatives.\nDemonstrated ability to build leadership confidence and capability at all levels of the organization.\nTalent Strategy & Succession\nStrong expertise in talent reviews, succession planning, workforce planning, organizational capability assessment, and development planning.\nAbility to identify, develop, and accelerate key talent.\nExperience facilitating talent discussions and influencing talent decisions with senior leadership teams.\nInfluencing & Trusted Advisor Capability\nExceptional relationship-building skills with a reputation for credibility and trust.\nStrong personal presence with the ability to influence without authority.\nAble to challenge constructively and guide decision-making through data, insight, and strong HR expertise.\nCritical Success Factors\nThe ideal candidate will be:\nA strategic thinker and pragmatic problem solver.\nComfortable operating independently in a complex environment.\nResilient and able to manage competing priorities.\nHighly collaborative while willing to provide courageous leadership challenge.\nRecognized as a trusted coach and advisor to leaders.\nAble to leverage tacit HR knowledge and experience to navigate complex situations where there is no obvious roadmap.\nKey Competencies\nBusiness Acumen\nStrategic Thinking\nCoaching\nOrganizational Design\nEmployee Relations\nChange Leadership\nTalent Management\nStakeholder Management\nInfluencing & Negotiation\nLeadership Development\nExecutive Presence\nCritical Thinking & Problem Solving\nQualifications & Experience\nThe ideal candidate will have:\nBachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Industrial Relations or a related discipline.\n5+ years of progressive Human Resources experience, including experience in a HR Business Partner or equivalent role.\nExperience within a manufacturing, medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare or other highly regulated environment.\nExperience supporting client groups through periods of growth, transformation, organizational change or business expansion.\nExperience supporting site start-up, scale-up, ramp-up or major business transformation initiatives is highly 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