At the Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, we know that every career matters. Which is why you should conduct yours on a grand scale. Headquartered in the northwest Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect, we are a division of Bosch, a multinational engineering and electronics organization and the largest privately held employer in the world.

Guided by the principles of founder Robert Bosch, we offer a setting where social and environmental responsibility are part of our corporate DNA. Always mindful of our impact on the future, we are committed to sustainability, paying it forward, giving back, and lifelong learning. These are but a few of the reasons why our parent company has more than 400,000 associates and a legacy of success spanning 135+ years.

With sales opportunities in retail, industrial, and e-commerce channels, we’re part of a global powerhouse earning $80 billion euros a year.

Play an integral role in a division that drives the success of our large, privately held consumer products organization. Offering the vast resources to maximize your effectiveness, we provide the support you need to achieve your most important objectives. Depending on your role within Sales, you can bring our products to market through three different and efficient channels: retail, industrial, and e-commerce. Featuring such popular brands as Bosch®, Dremel®, and Rotozip®, we offer opportunities to reinforce our strong reputation for quality, grow new business, and expand upon our existing relationships with some of the most influential distributors in power tools. 

This is your chance to Go big. Go bold. And use your sales skills to drive success on a massive scale, with the Robert Bosch Tool Corporation.

Robert Bosch Tool Corporation offers the competitive compensation, career-development resources, and benefits you would expect of a world leader, including health, medical, and financial plans; work/life balance; and flexible work options.

GO BIG. GO BOLD. GO BOSCH.

This is the senior-most HR role within Power Tools North America. As Director of Human Resources, you will serve as the lead HR Business Partner for the Power Tools (PT) Division in North America (NA) with 1.3 billion in sales and 1,800 associates. You will work in close partnership with senior leadership, and manage a team of HR professionals.

This role is hybrid remote with 60% monthly in-office presence in Mount Prospect, Illinois. (3 days in office per week). 

Responsibilities include:

• In addition to HR Leader NA, you will serve as the Global HR Business Partner for Latin America as well as the Business Unit Rotary Tools with a global footprint
• You will define the regional People Strategy, based on a jointly developed overall divisional People Strategy
• HR Business Partner for the location Mount Prospect
• Responsible for driving and supporting Business Transformation and Organizational Development, Leadership and Cultural Change within Power Tools NA
• Coordinate and drive HR topics such as Org Design, Talent Management, Top Management Recruiting, Functional Resource Reviews, Associate Relations, and Associate Turnover, in partnership with the HR Business Partners across the various PT sites throughout North and Latin America
• Advises the Global PT experts and Country Process Owners on country-specific HR topics
• Collaborates closely with respective regional corporate HR leads and PT Global HR Business Partners
• Leads and develops the maturity and competence of HR associates and teams
• Leverages HR digitalization and AI in region for improved HR efficiency

This position has dual reporting, local and international; target line to the Head of Human Resources for the Power Tools division (Germany) and disciplinary to the Regional President, North America.

Accountability & Results Focus:

• Takes Ownership of multiple strategic initiatives that directly influence long term impact on company growth, financial results, customer relationships, and associate relations
• Drives for Benchmark quality and performance in business and associate performance

Continuous Improvement & Innovation Focus:

• Acts as change agent by inspiring commitment for progress and business results
• Drives an innovation culture seeking additional knowledge that facilitates conversion of ideas into solutions/products that drive profitable growth

Collaboration & Communication Focus:

• Creates strong teamwork organization by fostering a sense of purpose and belonging and communicating often and openly
• Flexes leadership style to effectively lead and attract talent and build relationships

Customer Focus:

• Establishes a vision for the organization commitment to customer satisfaction
• Proactively determines customers’ future needs and incorporates these into the organization business strategies and broad organizational initiatives

Leadership Focus:

• Establishes a culture of rewarding and recognizing contribution and success
• Leads with integrity and demonstrates a standard of behaviors by which others can abide through authentic behavior

Knowledge & Experience:

• Leads high risk projects by setting clear targets and managing resource
• Formulates vision and mission and articulates and translates into strategies

As a qualified HR Director, you bring:

• A positive and infectious transformation mindset to the leadership team.
• A collaborative and adaptive mindset into discussions for enhancing the business through people.
• Proven track record in leading transformation and driving change
• Fosters openness, transparency, and collaboration for a high performance culture
• Profound knowledge of innovative HR instruments and practices and rich experience in different HR functions including international experience
• Strong communication and intercultural skills and can build relationships across hierarchies and different cultural backgrounds
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility paired with a clear focus on impact and implementation
• Goal oriented and results driven
• Ideally, you have experience in a large, international organization
• Solid and fluid working experience (minimally 7-10 years) local labor laws - FLSA.
• Solid local labor and associate relations processes, including experience navigating topics related to NLRA

Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Business or other related business degree is required; Masters degree is preferred.

BOSCH is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initiatives:

• FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
• AWIM (A World In Motion)

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

Thanks to the work of every associate, Bosch has been recognized for award-winning culture by the following organizations:

• Great Place to Work™ Certified, 2024
• Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, 2024
• America’s Best Large Employers, 2024
• America’s Best Employers for Diversity, 2024
• America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women, Newsweek 2024
• Greatest Workplaces for Diversity, Newsweek 2024
• Bosch Power Tools was recently recognized as one of Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces in Manufacturing 2025

Indefinite U.S. work authorized individuals only. Future sponsorship for work authorization is not available.

The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $185,000 to $217,000. Within the range, individual pay is determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, work experience and job knowledge, complexity of the role, job location, etc.

In addition to your base salary, Bosch offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts (HSA); flexible spending accounts; 401(K) retirement plan with an attractive employer match; wellness programs; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; parental leave, adoption assistance; and reimbursement of education expenses. Learn more about our full benefits offerings by visiting: https://www.myboschbenefits.com/public/welcome. Pay ranges included in the postings generally reflect base salary; certain positions may include bonus, commission, or additional benefits.