HR Manager

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter.  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing - improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications - from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Job Summary

The HR Manager partners with business leaders to deliver people outcomes in a complex, global environment. Acting as a trusted advisor, they provide expertise across employee relations, workforce planning, compliance, change management, leadership coaching, and HR processes, while collaborating closely with Talent Partners and Centres of Excellence.

Operating effectively within a matrixed organisation, the successful candidate will influence stakeholders, challenge the status quo, and drive initiatives that enhance organisational effectiveness, employee experience, and business performance. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on process excellence, continuous improvement, and HR transformation. While strong stakeholder management and influencing skills are essential, the role does not include direct people management responsibilities.

Your Responsibilities

• Enable managers to execute HR cycle processes by coaching on enterprise-wide HR programmes, policies, tools and annual people processes.
• Provide guidance and coaching to People Leaders on performance management, employee development, feedback conversations and performance improvement plans.
• Coordinate and execute core HR activities including onboarding, offboarding, employee communications, HR documentation, employee enquiries and local HR administration.
• Review engagement, onboarding, offboarding and exit data to identify trends and improvement opportunities and support action planning.
• Manage employee relations matters, conduct investigations as required and support managers with disciplinary actions while ensuring local compliance.
• Ensure timely and accurate HRIS transactions and maintain data integrity to support compliance and business decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation of HR processes and administrative activities through the adoption of HR technology, automation, self-service tools, and the ongoing upskilling of managers to increase capability and reduce administrative burden.
• Act as the primary HR support lead for designated non-core European countries, ensuring effective delivery of HR services, employee relations support, compliance oversight, and deployment of global people programmes in locations without dedicated in-country HR resources.
•  Collaborate with HR Centres of Excellence to deploy programmes locally and ensure compliance with local labour laws and company policies.
• Support local workforce planning activities including hiring, organisational changes, restructuring and reduction in force programmes in partnership with Talent Partners.
• Support employee engagement, culture and employee experience initiatives.
•  Support M&A, integration and other business transformation activities as required.

Your Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• Min. 5+ years of experience in HR field including previous HR Generalist role within a mid-sized or global organization.
• Strong experience in employee relations, investigations, performance management, manager coaching and HR program deployment.
• English on professional level, fluent in Czech
• Excellent verbal and written communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to interpret workforce data and identify trends.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism and confidentiality.
• Sound knowledge of employment law and HR compliance requirements.
• Experience working with HRIS platforms and HR technology solutions.
• Proactive personality with continuous improvement mindset and experience supporting organizational change and transformation initiatives.
• Experience with hiring expats is a big plus.
• Prior experience with AI tools is a big plus.
• Open to occasional business trips (10%).

Benefits

• Extra week of vacation (25 days/year)
• 5 sick days per calendar year
• 1 day of paid time off for charitable activities/year
• Flexi Pass vouchers with a nominal value of 1000 CZK/month
• Contribution to supplementary pension insurance 1000 CZK/month (after the probationary period)
• Flexible working hours (core 10 – 15:00)
• Every year, wages are reassessed from 1 April
• Meal vouchers in the form of a flat rate – monetary value (123,90 CZK/day)
• Monetary allowance for working from home (max. 2 days/week)
• MultiSport for only 300 CZK/month
• Bonuses for recommending a new employee up to CZK 110,000
• Free refreshments at the workplace (juice, hot drinks – coffee, tea; healthy snacks and fruit/vegetables 2 times a week)
• Training, language courses, career advancement
• Dog-friendly office, Family-friendly environment
• Corporate events – Summer Party, Christmas Party, Family Day, SportDay, Board Game Afternoon, Meet & Greet and more
• Free parking for employees and shower at the workplace for athletes

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Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.