Senior Human Resources Business Partner

About the Company

Privately held, high‑growth organization operating within the transportation, logistics, and freight brokerage space. Fast‑paced, high‑volume environment supporting a business that moves quickly and requires strong partnership between HR and operations. Lean but highly collaborative HR team with strong visibility across senior leadership, operations, recruiting, and field management. Culture values autonomy, problem‑solving, and hands‑on leadership rather than micromanagement. The organization is navigating continued growth, integration, and operational change, creating a strong opportunity for HR to directly influence the employee and leadership experience.

Chicago: 4 days onsite with work‑from‑home flexibility on Fridays.

• Opportunity to serve as a true strategic HR partner to operational leaders across a large employee population.
• High‑impact role with visibility across directors, managers, sales leaders, operations teams, and senior HR leadership.
• Ability to support a dynamic business through employee relations, retention, staffing, performance management, and workforce planning.
• Collaborative HR structure with peer support, while still offering autonomy and ownership over your business group.
• Potential for continued growth as the team evolves, including future support resources as the business scales.

• Support approximately 250 to 300 employees within a fast‑paced freight brokerage environment.
• Partner closely with operations leaders to coach managers, support employee engagement, and help drive retention.
• Be heavily involved in employee relations, performance management, compliance, staffing strategy, and organizational change.
• Address integration of acquired teams, providing HR leadership around manager coaching, hiring practices, and workforce alignment.
• Hands‑on HRBP role requiring comfort being close to the employee population and directly involved in day‑to‑day business needs.

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, ideally in a fast‑paced operational environment.
• Experience supporting large employee populations, ideally 250+ employees across multiple levels and functions.
• Strong employee relations, performance management, retention, and manager coaching experience.
• Ability to partner closely with recruiting and operations teams on staffing, workforce planning, and organizational changes.
• Background in transportation, logistics, manufacturing, hospitality, startup, or other high‑volume environments would translate well.
• Hands‑on, flexible, and independent HR professional who can operate without heavy oversight and adapt quickly as business needs shift.