Regional Director, Human Resources

9521 San Mateo NE Albuquerque, NM

Regional Director, Human Resources Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS) seeks a strategic, collaborative, and influential Human Resources leader to serve as its next Regional Director, Human Resources. This highly visible leadership role serves as the senior HR partner for the Regional Delivery System and is responsible for delivering comprehensive human resources strategy, employee relations support, workforce planning, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness initiatives across multiple facilities and service locations.

As healthcare organizations continue to navigate workforce shortages, labor market pressures, leadership development needs, employee engagement challenges, and increasing regulatory complexity, Presbyterian is seeking an HR executive who can balance strategic business partnership with operational excellence. The Regional Director serves as a trusted advisor to Regional Executive Leadership and plays a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of human capital strategies that support organizational growth, workforce stability, employee engagement, and exceptional patient care.

This leader will oversee regional HR operations while partnering closely with Centers of Excellence across Talent Acquisition, Compensation, Benefits, Employee Relations, Learning & Development, and Human Resources Operations. The ideal candidate is an experienced healthcare HR leader who excels at building relationships, coaching leaders, navigating complex employee relations matters, and creating people strategies that drive business outcomes.

• Serve as the senior HR advisor to Regional Executive Leadership.
• Develop and execute workforce strategies that support organizational objectives and operational performance.
• Partner with leaders to address talent, organizational design, succession planning, workforce engagement, and leadership development needs.
• Translate business priorities into actionable people strategies.
• Ensure alignment between regional workforce initiatives and enterprise human capital objectives.

• Lead employee relations strategy and provide oversight for complex and sensitive workforce matters.
• Ensure timely and effective resolution of employee concerns, complaints, workplace investigations, and organizational issues.
• Oversee complex employee relations investigations involving workplace conduct, performance, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace violence, and other sensitive matters.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and senior leadership on employment-related risk mitigation strategies.
• Serve as a key organizational resource regarding employment law, policy interpretation, and employee relations best practices.

• Provide executive coaching and consultation to leaders at all levels.
• Support leadership effectiveness, organizational development, team performance, and succession planning initiatives.
• Partner with operational leaders to strengthen engagement, accountability, and workforce performance.
• Lead change management efforts associated with organizational initiatives and strategic priorities.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.

• Ensure effective delivery of HR services across recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, benefits administration, compliance, and workforce planning.
• Lead and develop regional HR teams to ensure consistent service delivery and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with enterprise HR functions to implement system-wide policies, programs, and initiatives.
• Monitor HR service levels and continuously improve operational effectiveness and customer satisfaction.

• Ensure compliance with organizational policies and applicable federal, state, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain adherence to employment laws, Joint Commission standards, state licensure requirements, and healthcare workforce regulations.
• Monitor HR practices to ensure consistency, compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Support audits, regulatory reviews, accreditation surveys, and compliance initiatives.

• Monitor and analyze key workforce metrics, trends, and organizational performance indicators.
• Utilize employee relations, engagement, turnover,…