Vice President, Human Resources

Vice President of Human Resources
Full-Time Base Pay: $170000 to $190000 plus annual bonus eligibility.
Registrar Corp is a global regulatory compliance company helping food cosmetic medical device and pharmaceutical businesses navigate complex requirements and bring products to market safely and efficiently. We combine regulatory expertise technology-enabled services software proprietary data and a global operating presence to serve more than 35000 clients across approximately 180 countries.

The Opportunity
Registrar Corp is seeking a Vice President of Human Resources to lead the companys people strategy and build the organizational capabilities for its next phase of growth. Reporting directly to the CEO and serving on the executive leadership team this executive will be a trusted adviser on organization design talent workforce planning leadership development compensation culture productivity employee relations and global employment.

The successful candidate will lead all aspects of Human Resources while remaining close to execution. The mandate is to scale the global workforce integrate acquisitions develop leaders and prepare the organization for continued growth and a potential future ownership transition.

The VP of Human Resources will ensure that Registrar Corp has:

• Leadership capability and succession depth to execute the strategy.
  An organizational structure that supports accountability speed collaboration and effective decisions.
• A disciplined workforce-planning process connected to revenue EBITDA productivity and investment priorities.
• A scalable global people model across employees contractors employer-of-record arrangements legal entities and acquired companies.
• Repeatable HR due-diligence and post-acquisition integration capabilities.
• A practical workforce-transition approach as AI and automation reshape roles skills and workflows.
• A high-performance culture grounded in mission client focus teamwork curiosity urgency and accountability.

Key Responsibilities
HR Strategy and Executive Partnership

• Develop and execute a people strategy aligned with business financial M&A technology and global-growth priorities.
• Serve as a candid adviser to the CEO and executive team on organization leadership succession workforce risk culture and performance.
• Translate business priorities into organization capability talent and workforce plans with clear milestones and measures.
• Participate in strategic planning budgeting operating reviews acquisition planning and major organizational decisions.

Organization Design and Effectiveness

• Advise on enterprise structure spans and layers reporting relationships decision rights role clarity and leadership accountability.
• Lead organization reviews tied to growth productivity acquisitions and resource allocation.
  Identify and resolve organizational bottlenecks capability gaps fragmented processes and unclear ownership.
• Lead restructurings and workforce transitions with strong planning communication compliance and respect for employees.

Talent Acquisition Development and Succession

• Build leadership pipelines and strengthen manager capability accountability feedback and performance differentiation.
• Advance the companys people-leader and technical-professional career pathways and improve internal mobility.
• Establish an enterprise learning strategy spanning leadership management professional technical and compliance needs.
• Lead job architecture compensation structures market benchmarking annual reviews incentive programs promotions and pay-transparency compliance.
• Oversee benefit strategy vendors plan design cost management compliance and employee communication.

M&A Due Diligence and Integration

• Lead HR due diligence covering organization leadership workforce compensation benefits employment arrangements culture compliance liabilities and retention risk.
• Translate findings into transaction retention communication organization and integration plans.
• Partner with business leaders to determine the appropriate pace and depth of integration for each acquisition.
• Build a One Registrar organization while preserving critical local expertise client relationships and market knowledge.
• Monitor integration milestones critical-talent retention employee sentiment leadership effectiveness and workforce-related synergies.

Global Employment Compliance and Employee Relations

• Build a scalable global people model encompassing employees contractors EOR arrangements acquired businesses and local entities.
• Partner with Legal Finance external advisers and business leaders on complex cross-border matters.
• Lead sensitive employee-relations matters with fairness discretion independence and sound judgment.

Culture Engagement and Employee Experience

• Reinforce a culture centered on mission clients teamwork inclusion curiosity urgency development accountability and responsible stewardship.
• Build on existing engagement recognition career-development and employee-feedback programs.
• Balance a positive employee experience with clear performance expectations and consistent fair people practices.

Required Qualifications

• 12 or more years of progressive HR leadership experience including significant responsibility across multiple disciplines.
• Experience as the senior HR leader or a senior number-two HR executive in a complex evolving organization.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into organization design workforce planning talent leadership rewards change and HR-operating priorities.
• Experience supporting a distributed multi-state and multi-jurisdictional workforce of comparable size or complexity.
• Demonstrated success leading HR due diligence and post-acquisition integration.
• Strong knowledge of employee relations investigations performance management employment compliance compensation benefits talent acquisition and HR operations.
• Ability to connect workforce decisions to revenue EBITDA productivity operating leverage and enterprise value.
• Strong organization-design workforce-planning leadership-development talent-review and succession experience.
• Excellent financial acumen executive communication coaching facilitation negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to lead through growth ambiguity organizational change competing priorities and cost discipline.
• Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business Administration or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and executive-level experience.
• Ability to maintain regular in-person leadership presence and travel domestically and internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a private equity-backed acquisitive or high-growth middle-market company.
  Experience in a business combining recurring services software professional expertise distributed operations and acquisition-led growth.
• Experience supporting international employees contractors EOR arrangements and multiple legal entities.
• Experience integrating multiple acquisitions with differing cultures systems and employment practices.
• Experience in SaaS technology-enabled services professional services regulatory compliance testing inspection certification or another regulated industry.
• Experience implementing or materially optimizing an HRIS people-analytics platform or global HR operating model.
• Experience with workforce transformation associated with AI automation digital platforms or operating-model modernization.
• Experience presenting workforce succession compensation culture or integration matters to a Board or Board committee.
• Masters degree and/or SHRM-SCP SPHR or comparable senior-level certification.

Leadership Attributes

• Business oriented: Connects people recommendations to clients growth profitability execution risk and value creation.
• Strategic and hands-on: Builds a multi-year agenda while remaining close to implementation and sensitive matters.
• Candid and trusted: Provides direct objective counsel including when the message is difficult.
• Analytically rigorous: Uses data financial understanding and judgment to make recommendations and assess results.
• Decisive and pragmatic: Balances rigor with urgency and does not allow perfection to delay action.
• Global and culturally aware: Works effectively across countries employment models time zones and acquired organizations.
• Employee credible: Builds trust through consistency fairness transparency discretion and respect.
• Performance oriented: Sets clear expectations differentiates performance and holds leaders accountable.

Reporting Relationship Location and Travel

The Vice President of Human Resources reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer serves on the executive leadership team and leads the Human Resources function. The role partners closely with Finance Legal Technology Operations Sales Marketing M&A and leaders of acquired businesses.
This is a remote-flexible executive position requiring candidates to be located in Virginia or North Carolina.

The role requires regular in-person leadership presence at our Hampton VA headquarters including approximately 7 to 10 onsite days per month. Domestic and international travel is also required for executive meetings operating reviews acquisitions integration activities leadership development and employee engagement.

Compensation and Benefits

• Registrar Corp offers a competitive executive compensation package consisting of base salary annual performance-based bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits program.
• Benefits include medical dental and vision coverage; mental health and wellness support; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off; professional-development support; and remote-work flexibility consistent with the responsibilities of the role.
• Target salary range of $170000 to $190000 plus annual bonus eligibility.
• Remote work eligibility in Virginia/North Carolina. Must be able to be onsite for a minimum of 7-10 days per month.