HR Business Partner

Your Job

Molex is looking for an HR Business Partner to support our Optical Solutions Business Unit (OSBU). In this role, you will lead strategic and operational HR initiatives. This role provides end-to-end HR support aligned with business strategy, enabling organizational effectiveness, talent development, and a high-performance culture. The HRBP is also a culture champion, actively advocating Principle Based Management (PBM) by helping leaders and employees apply PBM principles in decision-making, talent management, and daily work.

This role will be located at Fremont, CA, supporting Americas focused human resources initiatives, while coordinating multiple locations if necessary.

Our Team

Are you looking to make a connection to your career? Come to Molex where we create connections for life. We use innovation, engineering excellence, commitment to quality and reliability and superior customer experience to improve communication, elevate experience, and engage and inspire people everywhere.

What You Will Do

Strategic Business Partnership

• Partner closely with leadership to understand business priorities, technology roadmap, and talent needs, translating them into effective people strategies
• Serve as a trusted advisor to supervisors on organization design, manpower planning, and scaling teams in support of growth and innovation.

Talent & Performance Management

• Coach managers on setting clear RREs (roles, responsibilities and expectations), deliver effective feedback, and develop capability within teams.
• Drive talent management, succession planning, and individual development discussion, develop and maintain a pipeline for succession planning to ensure future leadership and skill continuity

Culture & Principle Based Management (PBM) Advocacy

• Act as a steward of PBM culture by reinforcing values such as integrity, respect, compliance, and long-term value creation.
• Partner with employees at all levels to grow their knowledge and application of PBM.

Recruiting

• Support the recruitment process in partnership with talent acquisition team, hiring manager and leveraged recruiting capability to attract top talent
• Ensure good new hire experience, which includes 90 days check in and training programs

HR Program Execution & Analytics

• Support core HR processes including compensation planning, headcount planning, 360 feedback, etc.
• Leverage HR data and insights to proactively identify risks and opportunities

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Manage employee relations matters, including performance improvement, investigation, and conflict resolution, exercising sound judgment and discretion.
• Ensure consistent application of HR policies and full compliance with California and Federal employment laws.

Flex Support

• Assist with special projects and initiatives as assigned.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
• 10+ years of progressive HRBP experience, including experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Manger roles
• Strong working knowledge of California employment law and employee relations best practices.
• Demonstrate ability to influence and partner with leaders
• Experience in analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data, advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time domestically

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience supporting optics, photonics, semiconductor, hardware, or advanced manufacturing organizations.
• Past experience working in technical or engineering -driven organizations
• Advanced skills in data analytics, proven track record to link HR strategy with HR data analytics

For this role, we anticipate paying $130,000 - $170,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.